Erina Takahashi


Erina Takahashi, born in the city of Kushiro in Hokkaidō, Japan, is a Senior Principal dancer with the English National Ballet. She was the Critics Circle Best Female Newcomer in 2001.

Career & Repertory

Erina Takahashi trained in the Kushiro Ballet Academy under the direction of Kou Yano before joining the English National Ballet School in 1996. Upon joining the English National Ballet School she showed continuous improvement leading to her becoming a Principal dancer in 2000 and then Lead Principal in 2007.
In 1992 Erina Takahashi was the winner of the Chubu Newspaper Company Award and winner of Best Female Newcomer at the 2002 Critics' Circle National Dance Awards. She is Patron of New English Ballet Theatre and appears as Gulnare in English National Ballet's production of Le Corsaire on DVD.
Her lead roles include:
Manon, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Romeo & Juliet, Giselle, Cinderella, Coppélia, Nutcracker, Le Corsaire, Etudes, La Bayadère, Raymonda, Paquita, Double Concerto, Square Dance, Who Cares?, Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, The Rite of Spring, The Snow Queen, A Million Kisses to my Skin, Voluntaries, Les Sylphides, Don Quixote pas de deux, Impromtu, Perpetuum Mobile, Alice in Wonderland Petite Mort, In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated, No Man’s Land, M-Dao, Akram Khan’s Giselle, La Sylphide and Approximate Sonata