Gina Storm-Jensen

Gina Storm-Jensen became a permanent member of the Norwegian National Ballet in 2024, after eleven years with The Royal Ballet in London. At The Royal Ballet, she was promoted to First Artist in 2017 and appointed Soloist in 2021. That same year, she was also awarded the Tom Wilhelmsen Opera & Ballet Prize.

Storm-Jensen has danced prominent roles with both the Norwegian National Ballet and The Royal Ballet. Her repertoire includes roles such as Mrs. Sørby in Moum Aune’s The Wild Duck, the Fairy Godmother and Winter Fairy in Cinderella, Myrtha in Giselle, Mistress in Manon, and the Lilac Fairy in The Sleeping Beauty, as well as Big Swans in Swan Lake, Ceres in Sylvia, the Red Girl in Les Patineurs, the High Pas d’Action in La Bayadère, a friend in La Fille mal gardée, Corybantic Games, and Monotones II.

In Balanchine’s Jewels, she has danced the lead couple in Diamonds and the tall Ruby girl, and in The Nutcracker she has performed as Clara, the Rose Fairy, and in the Arabian duet. She has also danced Empress Elisabeth in Mayerling, the lead couple in Danse à grande vitesse, the Prayer Solo in Coppélia, Mercedes in Carmen, and Lady Mary in Enigma Variations. She has created roles in The Cellist, Flight Pattern, Woolf Works, and Meta.

Half Norwegian, half German, Storm-Jensen trained at the Norwegian National Ballet School and at the Royal Ballet Upper School in London. During her studies, she won the gold medal at the international ballet competition in Grasse in 2009 and was a finalist at Prix de Lausanne in 2011. In 2013, she received the Royal Ballet School’s Gailene Stock Award for Most Promising Student. In 2019, she was awarded the Wessel Prize, presented by Norske Selskab to young deserving artists, and in 2021 she was nominated for the British Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards in the category Emerging Artist.