Fernanda Oliveira

Birthplace
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Training
Centro de Dança Rio, Royal Ballet Upper School

English National Ballet
Joined 2000. Promoted to Coryphée 2002, Soloist 2003, First Soloist 2004, Principal dancer 2007, Lead Principal 2009

Previous company
Ballet Nacional de Santiago de Chile

Repertoire
Leading roles include Sugar Plum Fairy in Watkin and Smith’s Nutcracker; Odette/Odile in Deane’s Swan Lake; Clara/Sugar Plum in Eagling’s Nutcracker; Juliet in Nureyev’s and Deane’s productions of Romeo & Juliet; Aurora in MacMillan’s The Sleeping Beauty; Giselle in Skeaping’s traditional and Khan’s reimagining; Deane’s Strictly Gershwin; Manon in MacMillan’s Manon; Gulnare and Medora in Le Corsaire; Stepsister Edwina in Wheeldon’s Cinderella; Marie in Khan’s Creature; the title character in Rojo’s Raymonda. One act works include Forsythe’s In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated; Lander’s Etudes and Kylián’s Petite Mort. Created roles have included Gerda in Corder’s The Snow Queen; Eagling’s Resolution and Jeux; Liam Scarlett’s No Man’s Land and Maliphant’s Echoes