Yuka Ebihara

Yuka Ebihara (Japanese: 海老原由佳, Ebihara Yuka; born 22 October 1986 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese ballet dancer.

Since 1997, she had continued her training in Iwata Ballet School in Yokohama, and then 2005 in Goh Ballet Academy in Vancouver, Canada.

After finishing her training in 2008, she became a soloist of Goh Ballet Youth Company.

After one year of dancing with the company, she started to seek her place elsewhere.

She was engaged with Norwegian National Ballet, Oslo (2008–2009), performed as a guest dancer with the company of Vienna Festival Ballet in Great Britain (2008), was a soloist with French Compagnie Mezzo Ballet (2009), and danced with the Suzanne Farrell Ballet, USA (2009).

Then, for two years (2009–2011), she was engaged as a soloist of Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb, where she discovered the Polish National Ballet – a newly created company in Warsaw's Teatr Wielki under the direction of Krzysztof Pastor – was looking for dancers.

Since September 2011, she has been engaged with Warsaw’s Teatr Wielki.

In 2011, Ebihara went through audition to Polish National Ballet, and she got a contract.

Since September 2013, she became a first soloist, and since January 2020 she is a principal dancer of the Polish National Ballet.

Ebihara took up dancing as a 7-year-old in Beijing, where she lived with her family as her father had a temporary working contract.

She began as a corps de ballet dancer, but in only 2 years she was promoted twice and in 2013 she became a first soloist, which is the highest rank in the company’s structure.

In a very short time, she took over many roles in the company’s repertoire and begin to represent Polish National Ballet on international ballet galas in USA, Russia, Japan, Spain, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Czech, Lithuania and Latvia.