Máire Elizabeth New

International Principal Dancer - Guest Artist

is the first Alaskan graduate of the Bolshoi Ballet Academy. She has danced with the Bolshoi Ballet and worked as a principal dancer throughout Russia, Europe, and the United States with companies including Det Ny Teater (Copenhagen), Moscow Classical Ballet, Astrakhan State Theatre of Opera & Ballet, Samara Academic Theatre of Opera & Ballet, Ido Tadmor Ballet, and Michigan Ballet Theatre. Trained extensively in the Vaganova method, Máire has studied under master pedagogues including Irina Kolpakova and Ludmila Morkovina, pupils of Agrippina Vaganova herself.

Máire was featured in Mariinsky’s "Russian Ballet Stars Gala”, the “Dance For Life” Festival in Los Angeles, directed by Desmond Richardson and Debbie Allen, and the “Gala Performance” of Attitude Ballet Studios Vienna. Máire has most recently been working in Copenhagen as a principal dancer/artist with Det Ny Teater, where she has performed as the principal ballerina (Odette) and Tatiana in their production of “Anastasia”.

Máire has worked as principal pedagogue and choreographer for Li's Ballet Academy, Yale University, New Canaan Academy of Dance, BASE23 Stockholm, and Balettakademien Stockholm. She has also choreographed award-winning pieces for the Bolshoi Ballet Academy and Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP). Her students have received awards and scholarships at international ballet competitions (including YAGP), and have been invited to world-renowned ballet academies, including the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, Vaganova Ballet Academy, John Cranko Schule, Paris Opera Ballet School, San Francisco Ballet School, and American Ballet Theatre’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School.

Máire’s classes emphasise musicality, purity of line, artistic expression, placement, strength, and the dancer's overall health and well-being. She works meticulously with each student to ensure their personal growth, safety, and success. Great care is taken to maintain a positive, respectful, and uplifting environment in her classes at all times.