Agnes Oaks

Age Oks CBE (born 29 May 1970)[1] known professionally as Agnes Oaks, is an Estonian former ballet dancer, who was a principal dancer with English National Ballet.

In 1990, after winning the USA International Ballet Competition in Jackson, Mississippi with her on-and-off-stage partner Thomas Edur, Ivan Nagy, then-artistic director of English National Ballet invited the two to move to London to join the company as principal dancers, and she anglicised her stage name.

[1] For Wayne McGregor's 2 Human, Oaks was nominated for the Prix Benois de la Danse,[5] and won the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance with Edur.

She said she delayed her retirement after she learned ENB would debut Kenneth MacMillan's Manon.

She then relocated to Tallinn, as Edur was named artistic director of the Estonian National Ballet.