Laura Morera
Laura Morera | |
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_(cropped).JPG) Morera at the curtain call of MacMillan's Mayerling | |
| Education | Royal Ballet School |
| Occupation | Ballet dancer |
| Years active | 1995-present |
| Spouse | Justin Meissner |
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| Current group | The Royal Ballet |
Laura Morera is a Spanish ballet dancer who was a principal dancer with The Royal Ballet until her retirement in 2023.
Early life and training
[edit]Morera was born in Madrid.[1] She started attending the Royal Academy of Dance's summer programme in London at the age of seven. When she was 10, she auditioned for The Royal Ballet School by dancing a solo from Paquita in pointe shoes. She graduated in 1995.[2]
Career
[edit]Morera joined The Royal Ballet after graduating from the school. She became a First Artist in 1998, Soloist in 1999, First Soloist in 2002 and Principal Dancer in 2007.[1] She has performed lead roles in ballets such as, the titular role in Giselle, the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker, Natalia Petrovna in Ashton's A Month in the Country, the Gypsy Girl in The Two Pigeons, the title role in Manon, Mary Vetsera in Mayerling, the title role in Anastasia and Tatiana in Cranko's Onegin.[3][4] She won the 2015 Critics' Circle National Dance Award for her performance as Lise in Ashton's La Fille mal gardée[5] and the 2023 National Dance Award for Best Female Dancer.[6]
Outside of the company, Morera and her husband and former Royal Ballet dancer Justin Meissner have a group named Dance Tour International which has held gala and workshops in different countries.[3]
Selected repertoire
[edit]Morera's repertoire with the Royal Ballet includes:[1]
- Lise in La Fille mal gardée
- The titular role in Anastasia
- Diana in Sylvia
- Gypsy Girl in The Two Pigeons
- Effie in La Sylphide
- Masha and Irena in Winter Dreams
- Tatiana in Onegin
- The titular role in Giselle
- Kitri and Mercedes in Don Quixote
- Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker
- Gamzatti in La Bayadère
- The title role and Lescaut’s Mistress in Manon
- Mary Vetsera, Mitzi Caspar and Marie Larisch in Mayerling
- The Queen of Hearts in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- Paulina in The Winter’s Tale
- Titania in The Dream
- Wife in The Concert
Created roles
- Rushes – Fragments of a Lost Story
- 'See, even Night herself is here’ pas de deux
- Qualia
- Of Mozart
- Asphodel Meadows
- Sweet Violets
- Hansel and Gretel
- The Age of Anxiety
- Electric Counterpoint
- Frankenstein
- Tryst
- Mama Elena in Like Water for Chocolate[7]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Laura Morera". Royal Opera House. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
- ^ Willis, Margaret (12 February 2016). "Interview – Laura Morera – Principal, The Royal Ballet". DanceTabs.
- ^ a b Parry, Jann (22 April 2015). "Laura Morera & Vadim Muntagirov – Royal Ballet Principals, on La Fille mal gardée". Dancetabs.
- ^ Guerreiro, Teresa (8 December 2018). "Laura Morera's Winter Dreams". Cultural Whisperer.
- ^ "2015 National Dance Awards – Winners Announced". DanceTabs. 25 January 2016.
- ^ Murray, Hannah (7 June 2023). "National Dance Awards 2023 - The Royal Ballet School".
- ^ "Like Water for Chocolate". American Ballet Theatre. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
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