Yolanda Correa

“Magnificent”, was the description of Yolanda Correa in the title role in Liam Scarlett’s new Firebird, which was created for her in autumn 2013. After she joined the National Ballet in the autumn of 2010, she has captured the Norwegian audience with strong role performances within the classical repertoire: The Snow Queen, the Sugar Fairy and Clara in The Nutcracker, Kitri in Nurejev’s Don Quixote, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Tatjana in Cranko’s Onegin, the role in Cinderella, Aurora in Sleeping Beauty and the demanding double role of Odette and Odile in Swan Lake. She has also danced the title role as well as Lescaut’s mistress in MacMillan’s Manon.

Correa has also danced leading parts in modern works such as Duato’s Multiplicity – Forms of Silence and Emptiness and Without Words, Forsythe’s Steptext and In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated, and Kylián’s Wings of Wax, Gods and Dogs, Symphony of Psalms, Stepping Stones, Petite Mort and Sweet Dreams. She has done the leading parts in Tetley’s Voluntaries, Balanchine’s Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and Agon, León & Lightfoot’s Same Difference, and in autumn 2013 also danced the lead role in Scarlett’s Vespertine. She has danced both the title role and Micaëla in Scarlett’s Carmen – a ballet in three acts, Mrs Alving in Ghosts – Ibsen’s Gengangere, and had a solo role in Alexander Ekman’s Rooms.

Cuban Yolanda Correa is educated at the Art Vocational School of Holguín and at the National Ballet School in Havana. Before coming to Oslo, she danced in the Cuban National Ballet, where she was employed as primera bailarina (top level). She won the Contest Meetings of Ballet Academies in 1999, and in 2012 was awarded the prestigious Positano Prize as the best female newcomer to the international dance scene. She has also received the Tom Wilhelmsen opera and ballet prize of NOK 500,000. Correa is a guest of a number of companies and dances on a number of prominent international stages.

Performances
Future performances.

Selected previous performances