Claire Barrett
First Artist
Birthplace
Cape Town, South Africa
Training
Cape Town City Ballet; English National Ballet School
English National Ballet
Joined 2017, promoted to First Artist 2024
Previous companies
At age 15 danced with Cape Town City Ballet in their productions of Sleeping Beauty and Nutcracker.
December 2015 danced in English National Ballet’s Nutcracker.
Career highlight
Being accepted into the Company, performing with English National Ballet in Pina Bausch’s Le Sacre du printemps (Rite of Spring), and winning English National Ballet’s Corps de Ballet Award in 2020.
Other info
Grew up in Cape Town, South Africa and moved to the UK to train with English National Ballet School