Ewa Nowak

Soloist

Born

Busko Zdrój, Poland

Education

  • Roman Turczynowicz State Ballet School, Warsaw (1991–2000)
  • Dance Workshops in Palucca School, Dresden, Germany (1997 & 1998)
  • Académie de Danse Classique Princesse Grace, Monte Carlo (summer course, 1999)
  • Summer University of Le Ballet des Jeunes d’Europe, Lubéron, France (2000)
  • Fryderyk Chopin University of Music (ballet pedagogy), Warsaw (2005–2010)

Important teachers

  • Irina Kacprzycka, Barbara Sier, Hanna Chojnacka, Jean-Charles Gil, Marika Besobrasova, Renata Smukała, Kalina Schubert, Teresa Memches, Natalia Hoffmann, Steven Etienne, Andrzej Ziemski

Engagements

  • Ballet of the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera, Warsaw, from 2000 as Dancer, from 2008 as Coryphée
  • Polish National Ballet, Warsaw, from 2009 as Coryphée, since 2010 as Soloist

Gallery

Repertory

  • With the Polish National Ballet

    • Clara in The Nutcracker (Andrzej Glegolski)
    • Chinese Dance in The Nutcracker (Andrzej Glegolski)
    • Shade-Soloist 1 & Pas d'action in La Bayadère (trad. / Natalia Makarova)
    • Prince's Friend (Pas de trois) in Swan Lake (trad. / Irek Mukhamedov)
    • Music in Chopin, the Romantic Artist (creation, Patrice Bart)
    • Fairy of the Liveliness in The Sleeping Beauty (trad. / Yuri Grigorovich)
    • Princess Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty (trad. / Yuri Grigorovich)
    • Fairy Spring in Cinderella (Frederick Ashton)
    • Shade-Soloist 3 in La Bayadère (trad. / Natalia Makarova)
    • Second Air in In Light and Shadow (Krzysztof Pastor)
    • Three Small Maidens in Red in Le Sacre du printemps (Vaslav Nijinsky / Millicent Hodson)
    • Laterna Magica Princess in The Nutcracker (Toer van Schayk & Wayne Eagling)
    • Four Young Women in Le Sacre du printemps (Maurice Béjart)
    • Princess Florine in The Sleeping Beauty (trad. / Yuri Grigorovich)
    • Four Dryads in Don Quixote (trad. / Alexei Fadeyechev) 
    • Young Girl in The Green Table (Kurt Jooss)
    • Duet 3 in Adagio & Scherzo (Krzysztof Pastor)
    • Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew (John Cranko)
    • Snowflake-Soloist in The Nutcracker (Toer van Schayk & Wayne Eagling)
    • Soloist in Chroma (Wayne McGregor)
    • Four Swans in Swan Lake (with new libretto, Krzysztof Pastor, scene after Lev Ivanov)
    • Lilli in Darkness / Lilli (creation, Izadora Weiss)
    • Angel in Darkness / Jasmin (creation, Izadora Weiss)
    • Justysia in Husband and Wife (Anna Hop)
    • Pinocchio 1. in Pinocchio (Anna Hop)

    and solos in

    • In Daybreak (creation, Karol Urbański, 1st Choreographic Workshop)
    • InRaspberry Brushwood (creation, Anna Hop, 2nd Choreographic Workshop))
    • And the Rain Will Pass... (creation, Krzysztof Pastor)
    • Human Object (creation, Barbara Bartnik, 4th Choreographic Workshop)
    • Szpile (creation, Joanna Drabik, 6th Choreographic Workshop) 
    • Aisthesia (creation, Lachlan Phillips, 6th Choreographic Workshop)

Awards

    • 1995: Second Junior Prize at the 9th Polish Dance Competition in Gdańsk
    • 1995: Scholarship of the Polish Children's Fund
    • 1997: Third Junior Prize at the 10th Polish Dance Competition in Gdańsk
    • 1997: Scholarship of the Polish Children's Fund
    • 2000: Title and Prize for 'The Best Graduate of the Ballet Schools in Poland'