Coryph\u00e9e<\/p>\n
Born in Wellington, New Zealand, Reina Sawai trained in Japan, Hong Kong and the Philippines and received a one-year scholarship in Portugal. She danced with National Ballet of Portugal, Vienna State Ballet and Boston Ballet before joining Hong Kong Ballet as a Coryph\u00e9e in 2019.<\/p>\n
With Hong Kong Ballet, Sawai has danced the featured roles of Big Swan in John Meehan\u2019s\u00a0Swan Lake<\/em>, Egyptian Doll and French Doll in Terence Kohler\u2019s\u00a0The Nutcracker<\/em>\u00a0and Second Twin in Septime Webre\u2019s\u00a0Peter Pan<\/em>. Prior to joining the Company, she performed in Kenneth MacMillan\u2019s\u00a0Manon<\/em>, John Cranko\u2019s\u00a0Romeo and Juliet<\/em>, Rudolf Nureyev\u2019s\u00a0Don Quixote<\/em>,\u00a0Swan Lake, Nutcracker<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Raymonda<\/em>, George Balanchine\u2019s\u00a0Serenade, Who Cares\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Donizetti Variations<\/em>, William Forsythe\u2019s\u00a0Artifact, Pas Parts, Blake Works<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Second Detail\u00a0<\/em>and Jorma Elo\u2019s\u00a0Fifth Symphony of Jean Silelius<\/em>, among others.<\/p>\n Sawai was a semi-finalist at the 2008 Prix de Lausanne and a bronze medalist at the 2009 TanzOlymp in Berlin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","team-type":[],"class_list":["post-15044","team","type-team","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkballet.com\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/15044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkballet.com\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkballet.com\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkballet.com\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"team-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hkballet.com\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team-type?post=15044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}