Laurretta Summerscales
Principal Dancer
Laurretta Summerscales was born 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 2017/18 season she joined 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)
Previous roles and parts
Title role in La Sylphide (Pierre Lacotte after Filippo Taglioni)
Title role in Giselle (Peter Wright after Coralli/Perrot/Petipa)
Kitri in Don Quijote (Ray Barra)
Nikija and Gamzatti in La Bayadère (Patrice Bart after Marius Petipa)
Odette/Odile in Swan Lake (Ray Barra)
Title role in Raymonda (Ray Barra after Marius Petipa)
Lise in La Fille mal gardée (Frederick Ashton)
Tatyana and Olga in Onegin (John Cranko)
Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (John Cranko)
Katharina in The Taming of the Shrew (John Cranko)
Louise in The Nutcracker (John Neumeier)
Princess Natalia in Illusions – like Swan Lake (John Neumeier)
Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (John Neumeier)
Marguerite Gautier in Lady of the camellias (John Neumeier)
Swanilda in Coppélia (Roland Petit)
Phrygia in Spartacus (Yuri Grigorovich)
Female Soloist in Le Parc (Angelin Preljocaj)
Female Soloist in Subject to Change (Sol León & Paul Lightfoot), as part of the Sphären.03 and Konstellationen multiple bills
Title role in Alice in Wonderland (Christopher Wheeldon)
Title role in Cinderella (Christopher Wheeldon)
Title role in Anna Karenina (Christian Spuck)
Marja in The Blizzard (Andrey Kaydanovskiy)
Affairs of the Heart (David Dawson), as part of the Passagen triple bill
Blake Works I (William Forsythe), as part of theWaves and Circles triple bill
Jewels (George Balanchine)
Kairos (Wayne McGregor), as part of the Portrait Wayne McGregor triple bill
Othello (Emil Faski), as part of the Heute ist morgen triple bill
The Rite of Spring (Pina Bausch), as part of the Wings of Memory triple bill
Schmetterling (Sol León & Paul Lightfoot), as part of the Schmetterling double bill
Subject to Change (Sol León & Paul Lightfoot), as part of the Sphären.03 multiple bill
Sunyata (Wayne McGregor), as part of the Portrait Wayne McGregor triple bill
Tchaikovsky Overtures (Alexei Ratmansky)
White Darkness (Nacho Duato), as part of the Duato/Skeels/Eyal triple bill
With A Chance of Rain (Liam Scarlett), as part of the Paradigma triple bill