Laurretta Summerscales

Principal

Laurretta Summerscales was born in 1991 in Runnymede (Surrey, UK) and started her dance education at the age of three. After her diploma at the English National Ballet School she became a member of the English National Ballet. In 2013 she was promoted to first soloist and in 2016 to principal dancer. In the season 2017/18 she joined the Bayerisches Staatsballett as a principal. She has been honoured with a Joyce Percy Memorial Award, a Stella Mann Award, a Baines-Hewitt Award, a Molly Lake Award, a gold medal at the Beijing International Ballet and Choreography Competition (2013), and twice (in 2013 and 2015) with the People's Choice Award at the Emerging Dancer Competition of the English National Ballet, where she had been named Young Dancer of the Year three times in a row, starting in 2007..

(Information as of October 2024)

Roles in the 2024/25 seasons (updated periodically)
Female Soloist in Le Parc (Angelin Preljocaj)
Title role in La Sylphide (Pierre Lacotte after Filippo Taglioni)
Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (John Cranko)
Title role in Giselle (Peter Wright after Marius Petipa)

Selected roles in previous seasons
Nikija and Gamzatti in La Bayadère (Patrice Bart after Marius Petipa)
Title role in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Christopher Wheeldon)
Kitri in Don Quijote (Ray Barra)
Title role in Raymonda (Ray Barra nach Marius Petipa)
Title role in Anna Karenina (Christian Spuck)
Tatjana und Olga in Onegin (John Cranko)
Katharina in The taming of the shrew (John Cranko)
Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (John Cranko)
Lise in Fille ma gardée (Frederick Ashton)
Odette/Odile in Swan Lake (Ray Barra)
Titelrolle in Cinderella (Christopher Wheeldon)