Viktoria Falck-Schmidt

Viktoria Falck-Schmidt

Corps de ballet

Born:  1993

Nationality: Danish

Education: The Royal Danish Ballet School in Odense, 2002-06, and the Royal Danish Ballet School in Copenhagen, 2006-10

Career: Joined the Royal Danish Ballet as an apprentice in 2010 and became a member of the corps de ballet in 2013

Highlights from the repertoire with the Royal Danish Ballet: Swan Lake (Nikolaj Hübbe and Silja Schandorff), The Nutcracker (George Balanchine), Romeo and Juliet (John Neumeier), In Contact (Christian Lollike and Corpus), Uropa (Christian Lollike and Corpus) and The Fever Harbour (Signa and Corpus)

Creations: Bamse by Thomas Lund, 2008, Stolen Spring by Esther Lee Wilkinson, 2011, The Death That Best Preserves by Natalia Horecna, 2015, In Life & Love & So On by Tilman O’Donnell, 2015, and Beginnings and Endings by Oliver Starpov, 2017

Guest performances: Prix de Lausanne, 2012, Vaganova Academy – 275 years jubilee galla, 2013, and Paris Opera Ballet School – 300 years jubilee galla, 2013

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Why do you think that ballet is relevant today?
Ballet and performances are important because they can take you out of your everyday life and take your brain and emotions into worlds you would never have thought possible.