Samantha Raine

Samantha was brought up in Malton, north Yorkshire and trained at Kirkham Henry Performing Arts (her mother’s school) before joining The Royal Ballet School. She was awarded the Kenneth MacMillan Choreographic Award in 1995 and the first Dame Ninette de Valois Award in 1998. She joined The Royal Ballet in 1997 and was promoted to Soloist in September 2006.

She dances a range of corps de ballet roles in the Company’s repertory, including The Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, Swan Lake, La Bayadere, Raymonda Act III, Frederick Ashton’s Cinderella, La Fille mal gardée, Scènes de ballet, Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet, Concerto (Third Movement), Manon, the Woman in Ashley Page’s Sleeping with Audrey, the Lady in Antony Tudor’s The Leaves Are Fading, In the middle, somewhat elevated, the Lead Girl in Nacho Duato’s Por Vos Muero, Pas de six in Peter Wright’s Giselle, Mark Morris’s Gong, the Silver Fairy and Fairy of Temperament in Natalia Makarova’s The Sleeping Beauty, La Grêle in Bintley’s Les Saisons, the Autumn Fairy in Ashton’s Cinderella, a Cygnet, the Act I Pas de trois in Anthony Dowell’s Swan Lake, Second Sylph in August Bournonville’s La Sylphide, the Fourth Sister in MacMillan’s My Brother, My Sisters, Moyna and pas de six in Peter Wright’s production of Giselle, the Fairy of the Golden Vine and Silver Fairy in the Monica Mason and Christopher Newton production of The Sleeping Beauty, one of the two Blue Girls in Les Patineurs, Jemima Puddle-Duck in Ashton’s Tales of Beatrix Potter and a courtesan in MacMillan’s Manon.

She has created roles in Tom Sapsford’s Last Night at the Empire (2001), Lisa Torun’s tic(k), Vanessa Fenton’s Frozen, Christopher Wheeldon’s Tryst, David Bintley’s Les Saisons, Wayne McGregor’s Qualia (2003), Alastair Marriott’s Being and Having Been (Linbury 2004) and Tanglewood (2005).

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