Daniela Cabrera

Daniela Cabrera joined the Norwegian National Ballet in the autumn of 2019, after two years with the Norwegian National Ballet 2. With the company, she has danced major roles such as Kitri in Don Quixote, Clara in The Nutcracker, and the title roles in Cinderella and The Sleeping Beauty.

She has also performed Odile in Makarova’s Swan Lake, Red Girl in Kylián’s Forgotten Land, Olga in Cranko’s Onegin, the Mistress in MacMillan’s Manon, the peasant pas de deux in Giselle, and one of the three Shades in Makarova’s La Bayadère. Cabrera has also danced in Balanchine’s Divertimento No. 15, Diamonds (Jewels), and the Esmeralda pas de trois, as well as the Third Variation in Raymonda Suite.

She has danced the leading role in Balanchine’s Allegro Brillante, the pas de deux from Le Corsaire, and prominent parts in Kylián’s One of a Kind and Nureyev’s Don Quixote (including the pas de deux and coda). She has also appeared in Holmes’ Swan Lake, Bjørn’s Bournonville, and King’s Romeo and Juliet.

In 2021, she was invited to the Festival de Sintra in Portugal, where she performed the Don Quixote pas de deux with Gakuro Matsui. She has also danced the Nutcracker pas de deux with Ricardo Castellanos at Tivoli.

Cabrera was born in Havana, Cuba, where she began her ballet training at the Alejo Carpentier Elemental Ballet School. She completed her formal education at the Fernando Alonso National School of Ballet, graduating in 2015. As a student, she competed in the 19th International Ballet Competition in Havana, where she won the bronze medal. In 2015, she joined the Ballet Nacional de Cuba under the technical and artistic guidance of Alicia Alonso.