Yuka Ebihara

She ended her stage career on December 22, 2024, saying goodbye to the Warsaw audience in the role of Marguerite Gautier in John Neumeier's The Lady of the Camellias.

[1] 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.

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.

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,[3] 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.