[2] At age 14, she danced Terpsichore in Apollo, partnering Peter Boal, then a New York City Ballet principal dancer and a guest at the school.
After that, Boal recommended her to train at the School of American Ballet in New York City, even though she did not speak English at the time.
In 2010, during a nationwide tour of the Nutcracker season, he stated that Körbes was the best dancer he had seen of the tour,[8] and in 2012, in a review of the Vail International Dance Festival, he stated that Körbes "is one of the finest ballerinas appearing in America today; some think her the finest, and last weekend I felt in no mood to contradict them.
[1] Per PNB tradition, her final performance was a program for departing dancers, which she danced Jessica Lang's The Calling, Balanchine's Serenade and "Diamonds" from Jewels.
[15] In April 2015 she married British photographer Patrick Fraser and later that year gave birth to a baby boy named Rafael.