Rebecca King

Ballet Soloist

Native of Baltimore, Maryland, she did her dance studies with Olga Toziak, at Ballet Studio No. 7, in Columbia, Maryland, between 2001 and 2006. While still a student there she won laureateship from the International Ballet Competition in Varna, Bulgaria, and made it to the final of the Youth America Grand Prix. She also received Grand Prix from the International Ballet Competition in Artek, Russia. In 2006 she was engaged as soloist by the Ukraine National Ballet, appearing on its stage in the Pas de Trois and Dance of the Large Swans in Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake; as Ingrid in Peer Gynt; and in the Pas d’Action and Pas de Trois in La Bayadère. From the 2008/09 season, she has been initially demisoloist and, since 2009/10, soloist of the Prague State Opera ballet company, dancing among other parts in the Swan Lake Pas de Trois, the title part in Cinderella, and the leading role of Anastasia in the ballet production of The Sleeping Beauty – The Czar’s Last Daughter.