Tamara Rojo
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Tamara Rojo CBE (born 17 May 1974) is a Spanish ballet dancer.
She is both the artistic director of the English National Ballet and a lead principal dancer.
She was formerly a principal dancer with The Royal Ballet.
Early life and training
Rojo was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to Spanish parents who returned with her to Spain when she was 4 months old. Mariemma started dancing lessons in Madrid at the age of 5 and became a full-time student at the Royal Professional Conservatory of Dance in Madrid.
Though her parents were delighted with her growing ballet skills, they insisted that Rojo complete an academic education through evening classes she could attend after studio rehearsals. She obtained her secondary studies over the next two years after graduating from the Conservatory at the age of 16. She went on to complete additional education, including a bachelor of dance, master of scenic arts, and a PhD in performing arts, earning the title of DA magna cum laude in 2016.
Personal life
Rojo lives in Bloomsbury, London. Isaac Hernández, a ballet dancer, is her husband. The couple have a son who was born in 2021.
Career
Rojo began her professional career in 1991 with the Ballet de la Comunidad de Madrid, under the direction of Vctor Ullate. She was given a gold medal at the Paris International Dance Competition in 1994, as well as a Special Jury Award from a panel consisting of Natalia Makarova, Galina Samsova, and Vladimir Vasiliev, three outstanding figures in the ballet world at the time.
In 1996, Galina Samsova, the company's artistic director, welcomed Rojo to join the company. In Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, La Sylphide, and Cranko's Romeo and Juliet, she appeared principal roles. Derek Deane, the former artistic director of the English National Ballet, asked her to join ENB the following year. Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet" and Clara's "The Nutcracker" and Clara, for which The Times named Rojo "Dance Revelation of the Year" in 1997, she created Juliet. She appeared in principal roles in Swan Lake, Pa, Coppelia, and Glen Tetley's The Sphinx.
Rojo started researching Royal Ballet director Anthony Dowell in 2000 with the intention of joining the company, and was invited to become a principal dancer when the company's term began later this year. She played prominent roles in most of the company's repertoire, including ballets choreographed by Kenneth MacMillan and Frederick Ashton, Dowell's Swan Lake, Rudolph Nureyev's Don Quixote, and Peter Wright's The Nutcracker. She appeared in the world premiere of Snow White, which was produced for her by choreographer Rizelle Cué. The title role in Isadora was recreated for her by MacMillan's widow, the artist and set designer Deborah MacMillan, custodian of the late choreographer's ballets.
Rojo was asked to substitute ill Royal Ballet principal Darcey Bussell in Giselle's title role. Rojo took the job in a fortnight and went on to receive rave reviews. Ignoring her own sprained ankle, she continued to do well. Rojo began to tremble on stage in 2002 when dancing Clara in Nutcracker. After the show, she learned that her appendix had burst and was told to miss six weeks. However, after only two weeks, she resumed dancing after returning to hospital. Rojo admitted that it was "completely wrong" to continue dancing when hurt or sick, and that no one should do this. It really isn't worth it."
Rojo had an infected bunion while preparing for the Royal Ballet's Australian tour in 2003, so her foot swelled to the size of a tennis ball. Doctors advised surgery on her foot, a potentially lethal procedure. Months later, after hours of recovery, she returned to dancing, saying that the injury had changed her outlook on life, her body, and dancing. She loved each and every day more and learned that nothing in life should be taken for granted.
She and her dad invented a tool to stretch pointe shoes in order to relieve bunions' pressure, and formed a company in 2017 to sell it.
Rojo took over the artistic director of English National Ballet in 2012, replacing Wayne Eagling.
The English National Ballet, for the first time in history, was invited to dance at the Paris Opera Palais Garnier. Enb performed one of its most popular ballets, the Petipa and Sergeyev version of Le Corsaire in a revival by Anna-Marie Holmes, which ran from 21 to 25 June 2016.
For the BBC, she produced a documentary titled Good Swan, Bad Swan: Dancing Swan Lake in 2014. She continued with Giselle: Belle of the Ballet in 2017, which included the history of both the original performance and the new ballet created for the ENB by Akram Khan. Khan was hired by Khan to reimagine the tale: Khan received the Critics' Circle National Dance Awards 2017 for Best Classical Choreography, Alina Cojocaru received Outstanding Female Achievement (Classical) as Giselle, and the company as a whole received the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance as a result.
Rojo made her dramatic debut with a Florence Nightingale-inspired version of Raymonda set during the Crimean War. It debuted in January 2022 at the London Coliseum in January 2022.
In January 2022, it was announced that Rojo would become San Francisco Ballet's artistic director at the end of the year, replacing Helgi Tómasson. She will be the first female to serve as the company's artistic director.
Awards
- Honoured by the South Bank Sky Arts Outstanding Achievement Award 2022, for her ten transformational years as artistic director of the English National Ballet.
- Gold Medal of the Academy of Performing Arts of Spain 2021.
- 2016 Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to ballet.
- 2013 Spanish-British Relationships of II Fundación Banco Santander Prize.
- 2012 The Gold Medal for Fine Arts 2012 of the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts.
- 2011 Encomienda de número de Isabel la Católica.
- 2010 Laurence Olivier "Best New Dance Production" award for her collaboration with choreographer Kim Brandstrup in "Goldberg: The Brandstrup-Rojo Project."
- 2008 Prix Benois de la Danse
- 2008 Comunidad de Madrid's International Medal of the Arts
- 2007 City of Madrid's Interpretation Award
- 2005 Premio Principe de Asturias a las Artes
- 2004 Premio Positano "Leonid Massine"
- 2002 Medalla de Oro al Mérito en las Bellas Artes – Consejo de Ministros del Reino de España.
- 2002 Gold Medal of Fine Arts from King Juan Carlos
- 2002 London's Critic's Circle Dance Awards
- 2001 Sherringtons Awards Best Female Dancer of the Year
- 2000 Barclays Theatre Awards: Outstanding Achievement in Dance
- 1996 First prize of Italian Critics as Best Dancer of the Year
- 1994 Grand Prix Femme et Medaille Vermeille de la Ville de Paris (à l'unanimité) – Concours International de Danse de Paris