After long periods of illness, she was dismissed from service shortly before her 25th anniversary where she would have appeared in a production of Livjægerne på Amager in which she would have portrayed the character of Louise.
While most of her early life consisted of classical ballet training and educational studies at Danish schools, Lærkesen was ready to further her career upon growing older with little success in the past.
Her Bournonville style of training from the company allowed her to dance beautifully in front of almost 2,000 people at the historic Royal Danish Theatre[4] in Kongens Nytorv for many seasons.
From her beginnings with the Royal Danish Ballet, her first starring role, and most-well known to date, remains as her portrayal as the first sylph in Bournonville’s La Sylphide.
Among those years though, she took part in a work by Swedish choreographer Birgit Cullberg entitled Månerenen and Flemming Flindt’s version of The Nutcracker.
[15] More choreographing led her to her debut with the New York City Ballet in 1994, where she developed a piece for the second addition of the showcase entitled the Diamond Project.