Marcin Kupiñski

Marcin Kupiñski

Principal dancer

Born: 1983

Nationality: Polish

Education: The national ballet school in Gdansk

Career: Joined the Royal Danish Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet in 2002. Promoted to soloist in 2010 and to principal dancer in 2011

Highlights from the repertoire with the Royal Danish Ballet: Junker Ove in A Folk Tale and James in La Sylphide (August Bournonville), Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake (Nikolaj Hübbe and Silja Schandorff), Albrecht in Giselle (Nikolaj Hübbe and Sorella Englund), Prince Desiré in The Sleeping Beauty (Christopher Wheeldon), Solor in La Bayadère (Nikolaj Hübbe), the Prince in The Nutcracker and the title role in Apollo (George Balanchine), soloist in Etudes (Harald Lander), Lenskij in Onegin (John Cranko), Gaston in Lady of the Camellias, Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Benvolio and Prince Paris in Romeo and Juliet (John Neumeier), Tony in West Side Story Suite (Jerome Robbins), Chanos in Come Fly Away (Twyla Tharp) and the Death in The Death That Best Preserves (Natalia Horecna)

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