Ballet
Beyond Vibrations
Dance
The National Theatre
Elena Dombrowski
Corps de ballet member of The Czech National BalletBiography
A petite, energetic dancer who applies her talent not only in performance, but also in creating and teaching. She won the Young Creation Award at the Prix de Lausanne 2024.
Elena was born near Paris, France, and began her ballet training at the age of 4. In September 2014 she moved to Mougins/Cannes and continued her studies at the Pôle National Supérieur de Danse Rosella Hightower. On her last year of studies in January 2023, she joined the Czech National Balletʼs corps de ballet in Prague. In the same year, she won the Prix de Lausanne’s 2024 Young Creation Award.
She danced in several ballets: A Streetcar Named Desire by John Neumeier; La Fille Mal Gardée by Frederick Ashton; Onegin, Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake by John Cranko; Cinderella by Jean-Christophe Maillot; La Sylphide by Johan Kobborg. Elena also dances in the triple bills Beyond Vibrations (in Marco Goecke’s Fly Paper Bird) and Forsythe/Clug/McGregor.
As the winner of the Young Creation Award at the 2023 Prix de Lausanne, Elena coached her award-winning contemporary variation Tout va bien? for the 51nd edition of this prestigious competition.
