Reina Fuchigami

Born: Fukushima, Japan

Trained: Hitomi Takeuchi Ballet School and The Royal Ballet School

Joined: 2012; First Artist, 2016; Soloist 2024

First role danced with the Company: One of the Stars in Cinderella when I was a student at The Royal Ballet School.

Most rewarding role: In the Upper Room, the ballet is like a stamina marathon. You don't stop moving until the music stops!

Awards: First prize at the 20th All Japan Ballet competition and Japan Grand Prix, 2009.

REPERTORY INCLUDES

Carlos Acosta: Don Quixote (Kitri's Friend)
Frederick Ashton:Les Rendezvous (pas de trois), Façade ('Scotch Rhapsody'), Dante Sonata, La Fille mal gardée (Lise's Friends), The Dream (Mustardseed), Enigma Variations
George Balanchine: Serenade, Theme and Variations, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue
David Bintley: Cinderella ('Spring'), Aladdin ('Diamond'), 'Still Life' at the Penguin Café (Great Auk), Tombeaux, Carmina burana, Hobson's Choice, Beauty and the Beast, The Tempest, The Prince of the Pagodas
David Bintley and Galina Samsova: Giselle
Daniela Cardim: Imminent
Jiří Kylián: Forgotten Land (Pink Couple)
Kenneth MacMillan: Elite Syncopations ('The Golden Hours'), Romeo and Juliet (Juliet's friend), Concerto
Juliano Nunes: Interlinked
Jessica Lang:Wink
Pontus Lidberg, Raúl Reinoso, Cassi Abranches: Black Sabbath – The Ballet
Uwe Scholz: The Seventh Symphony (Demi Solo Couple)
Twyla Tharp: In the Upper Room
Alexander Whitley: Kin.
George Williamson: Embrace
Peter Wright: The Nutcracker (Clara, Rose Fairy), The Sleeping Beauty (Fairy of Honour, The Enchanted Princess), Swan Lake (Italian Princess, Cygnet, pas de quatre), Coppélia (Swanilda's Friends)

Header image: Clothing (except for tutu) generously supplied by UK dancewear specialists Dans-ez