Séverine Ferrolier

Character dancer, ballet mistress and pointe shoe administration

Séverine Ferrolier, born in Toulon, France, was trained in the Centre de Danse Christiane Espitalier de La Valette. Having graduated, she danced with the ballet at the Opéra de Toulon, the Ballet National de Nancy under the direction of Pierre Lacotte and with the English National Ballet in London. Between 1997 and 2004 she was engaged at Leipzig Ballet under the direction of Uwe Scholz, since 2002 as a first soloist. Scholz created several parts for her like in Bruckner 8, Non, je ne regrette rien and h-Moll-Messe. In 2004 she became a member of the Bayerisches Staatsballett and is since then dancing as a first soloist with the company. Moreover, Séverine Ferrolier is responsible for the pointe shoe administration since the season 2018/19.

(Information as of September 2024)

Roles in the 2024-25 season
Princess Larina in Onegin (John Cranko)
Effie's Mother in La Sylphide (Pierre Lacotte after Filippo Taglioni)

Debuts with Bayerisches Staatsballett
Die Nacht, Pavlova solo (N. Legat)
Marschallin in The Silver Rose (G.Murphy)
1st and 3rd shades-variation in La Bayadère (M. Petipa/P. Bart)
Clémence in Raymonda (R. Barra)
Pas de quatre (L. Jacobson)
2nd pas de deux in Century Rolls (D. Bombana)
Charlotte fiancé of Prince Siegfried in Swan lake (R. Barra)
Odaliske and Gulnara in Le Corsaire (M. Petipa/I. Liška)
Miranda in The tempest (J. Mannes), creation
Große Fuge (H. van Manen)
Pas de deux in the fourth movement in Brahms-Schönberg-Quartett (G. Balanchine)
Adagio Hammerklavier (H. van Manen)
Violakonzert/II (M. Schläpfer), creation
Aus Holbergs Zeit (J. Cranko)
Mother in A Cinderella Story (J. Neumeier)
Woman in blue dress in Les Biches (B. Nijinska)
Aurora in Once Upon An Ever After (T. Kohler), creation
Marguerite in The Lady of the Camellias (J. Neumeier)
Zugvögel (J. Kylián), creation
Henriette in Raymonda (R. Barra)
Bathilde, Myrtha in Gisella-Mats Ek (M.Ek)
Ballerina in Série Noire - A choreographic murder mystery(T. Kohler), creation
Pas de deux in Artifact (W. Forsythe)
Woman 2 in My Ravel: Whichever Way he Looks... (J. Mannes), creation
Lykanion in My Ravel: Daphnis and Chloé (T. Kohler), creation
Lady of the Street in The Taming of the Shrew (J. Cranko)
The Queen Mother in Illusions - Like Swan Lake (J. Neumeier)
Dulcinea in Don Quijote (R. Barra after M. Petipa/A. Gorski, tradition)
Nieves in Don Quijote (R. Barra after M. Petipa/A. Gorski, tradition)
Five Brahms Waltzes In The Manner Of Isadora Duncan (F. Ashton)
The Moor's wife in The Moor's Pavane (J. Limón)
Soloist 2nd suite in Choreartium (L. Massine)
Athena Parthenos in Heroes (T. Kohler)
Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet (J. Cranko)
Spiral Pass (R. Maliphant), creation
Manon Lescaut in The Lady of the Camellias (J. Neumeier)
Variation in Paquita (M. Petipa/A. Ratmansky)
For the Children of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. A piece by Pina Bausch (P. Bausch)
Berthe in Giselle (P. Wright/M. Petipa)
Mother / The Queen of hearts in Alice´s Adventures in Wonderland (C. Wheeldon)
Countess Lidia Ivanovna in Anna Karenina (C. Spuck)
Dancer in Kairos -Portrait Wayne McGregor (W. McGregor)
Gräfin Sybille in Raymonda (R. Barra, M. Petipa)
The cook in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (C. Wheeldon)
Elisa in Cecil Hotel (A. Kaydanovskiy)
Dancer in Schmetterling: Silent Screen (Sol León und Paul Lightfoot)