Sofia Blok Lysvåg

Sofia Blok Lysvåg joined the Norwegian National Ballet 2 in autumn 2025, after four years at The Royal Ballet School in London. Since joining the company, she has danced roles including Rosalinde in Boyadjiev’s Romeo and Juliet.

In her graduating year at The Royal Ballet School, she performed with The Royal Ballet in Frederick Ashton’s Cinderella and Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet.

During her training, Lysvåg also danced excerpts from MacMillan’s The Four Seasons, Carlos Acosta’s Don Quixote, Goyo Montero’s Bold and Arielle Smith’s Culmination. She danced the Crystal Fountain Fairy in Sir Peter Wright’s The Sleeping Beauty and the Red Girl in Ashton’s Les Patineurs, performing at the Linbury Theatre, Opera Holland Park and the Royal Opera House.

Lysvåg (b. 2005) began dancing at a local ballet school in Asker before joining the Norwegian National Ballet School at the age of nine. During her lower secondary school years, she was part of the talent programme run in collaboration with Ruseløkka School, and in 2019 she danced Little Clara in the Norwegian National Ballet’s The Nutcracker.

In 2021, Lysvåg competed in Prix du Nord, where she was awarded third place in the junior category.