{{short description|Spanish ballet dancer}} {{Infobox dancer | name = Nadia Yanowsky | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = | birth_place = Madrid, Spain | death_date = | death_place = | former_groups = English National Ballet<br>Berlin State Ballet<br>Dutch National Ballet | current_group = Royal New Zealand Ballet | occupation = Ballet dancer | years_active = 2002 - present | spouse = | children = }}
'''Nadia Yanowsky''' is a Spanish ballet dancer.
== Early life and family == Yanowsky was born in Madrid and raised in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands.<ref name=rnzb>{{cite web|url=https://rnzb.org.nz/backstage/dancers/nadia-yanowsky/|title=Nadia Yanowsky|website=RNZB|accessdate=2019-04-21}}</ref> She is the daughter of Russian ballet dancer Anatol Yanowsky and Spanish ballet dancer Carmen Robles, who both danced with the Lyon Opera Ballet. She is the sister of ballet dancers Yury Yanowsky and Zenaida Yanowsky.<ref name="theguardian">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/jun/27/ballet-yanowsky-yury-zenaida-nadia|title=MoveTube: meet ballet's brilliant Yanowskys | Stage|website=The Guardian|accessdate=2019-04-21}}</ref> She began her ballet training at a school run by her parents and won a silver medal and audience prize at the Luxemburg International Ballet Competition.<ref name= rnzb/>
== Career == Yanowsky began her professional career in 2002 at the English National Ballet. In 2003 she joined the Berlin State Ballet and was promoted to demi-soloist. In 2008 she moved to Amsterdam and joined the Dutch National Ballet as grand sujet, and was promoted to the rank of soloist two years later.<ref name= rnzb/><ref name="dancemagazine">{{cite web|url=https://dancemagazine.com.au/2017/11/new-zealand-dance-news-november-2017/|title=New Zealand Dance News – November 2017|website=dancemagazine.com.au|accessdate=2019-04-21}}</ref> In 2018 she joined the Royal New Zealand Ballet and made her debut as the Sugar Plum Fairy in Val Caniparoli's ''The Nutcracker''.<ref name= rnzb/><ref name="danz">{{cite web|url=https://danz.org.nz/the-nutcracker-review|website=danz.org.nz|title=The Nutcracker by the Royal New Zealand Ballet, DANZ|accessdate=2019-04-21}}</ref>
Throughout her career Yanowsky has danced lead roles in many classical ballets including ''Romeo and Juliet'', ''Giselle'', ''Carmen'', ''Swan Lake'', ''Paquita'', ''La Bayadère'', ''Les Sylphides'', ''Cinderella'', ''The Sleeping Beauty'', ''The Nutcracker'', ''Coppélia'', ''The Rite of Spring'' and ''Le Corsaire'', and lead roles in Balanchine works including ''Serenade'', ''Agon'', ''Symphony in C'', ''Concerto Barocco'', ''Symphony in Three Movements'' and ''Violin Concerto''.<ref name="rnzb" /><ref name="bachtrack">{{cite web|url=https://bachtrack.com/review-cinderella-wheeldon-tsygankova-golding-dutch-national-london-july-2015|title=A touch of Disney: Wheeldon’s glossy Cinderella sweeps into London | by Bachtrack for classical music, opera, ballet and dance event reviews|website=bachtrack.com|accessdate=2019-04-21}}</ref> Yanowsky has also performed in works by William Forsythe, Hans van Manen, Wayne McGregor, Christopher Wheeldon, John Neumeier, Maurice Béjart, Uwe Scholz, Angelin Preljocaj, Rudi van Dantzig, and David Dawson.<ref name="rnzb" /><ref name="bachtrack2">{{cite web|url=https://bachtrack.com/review-cool-britannia-dutch-national-ballet-2015|title=The best of British dance in Dutch National Ballet's Cool Britannia | by Bachtrack for classical music, opera, ballet and dance event reviews|website=bachtrack.com|accessdate=2019-04-21}}</ref>
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