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Cira Robinson

For the National:

Training

Cira Robinson trained at Performing Arts School in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Theatre

For the National Theatre: Ballet Shoes

Ballet

Eve at Sadler’s Wells; Human at the New National Theatre, Tokyo; A Dream Within a Midsummer Night’s Dream, Second Coming, War Letters (2014 Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards for Outstanding Classical Dancer) and Storyville for Ballet Black at ROH; The Crucible for Scottish Ballet on tour; The Suit and Cristaux at the Barbican; Captured and Red Riding Hood at Birmingham Hippodrome; and Orpheus at Birmingham Royal Ballet

Cira Robinson has danced with Dance Theatre of Harlem, Ballet Identity in Los Angeles and Ballet Black in London.

Awards

2022 Best Soloist in a Dance Production at the Black British Theatre Award

 

In 2017, Cira Robinson, along with Cassa Pancho, collaborated with renowned British ballet shoe manufacturer, Freed of London, to create two brand new pointe shoe colours to enable dancers of black descent to buy skin-tone pointe shoes ready-made.

 

(Published December 2024)