Máire New
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Máire Elizabeth New is the first Alaskan graduate of the Bolshoi Ballet Academy. She has danced with the Bolshoi Ballet and worked as a principal dancer throughout Russia, Europe, and the United States with companies including Det Ny Teater (Copenhagen), Moscow Classical Ballet, Astrakhan State Theatre of Opera & Ballet, Samara Academic Theatre of Opera & Ballet, Ido Tadmor Ballet, and Michigan Ballet Theatre.
Trained extensively in the Vaganova method, Máire has studied under master pedagogues including Irina Kolpakova and Ludmila Morkovina, pupils of Agrippina Vaganova herself.
Máire was featured in Mariinsky’s "Russian Ballet Stars Gala”, Attitude Ballet Vienna's "Ballet Stars Gala", and the “Dance For Life” Festival in Los Angeles, directed by Desmond Richardson and Debbie Allen.
Sha has also choreographed award-winning pieces for the Bolshoi Ballet Academy and Youth America Grand Prix, and has worked as principal pedagogue and choreographer for Li's Ballet Academy, Yale University, and New Canaan Academy of Dance. Her students have gone on to receive scholarships and invitations to world-renowned ballet academies including the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, John Cranko Schule, Paris Opera Ballet School, San Francisco Ballet School, and American Ballet Theatre’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School.
Máire has most recently been working in Copenhagen as a principal dancer / artist with Det Ny Teater, where she has performed as the principal ballerina (Odette) and Tatiana in their production of “Anastasia”.
Photo credit: Samantha Zauscher
