Elinor Jagodnik

Born in Paris, Elinor Jagodnik received her ballet training in Marseille, at the École Nationale Supérieure de Danse and at the Studio Ballet Colette Armand, and finally at the Ballet Academy Munich/Heinz-Bosl Foundation. In 2003, she was engaged by the Badisches Staatsballett Karlsruhe, and from 2006 she danced with the Staatsballett Berlin, where over the years of her entire career she developed an extensive repertoire and performed numerous solo roles. She danced in Sir Peter Wright's Giselle (Solo-Wili Zulma) and Coppélia (Swanilda's friend), Hans van Manen's Bits & Pieces, Don Quixote (four Dryads, Wedding girls), Jörg Mannes' Liaisons Dangereuses (Tourvel's servant), Marius Petipa's Paquita (Grand Pas Solo-Variation), Patrice Bart's Swan Lake (Big Swans, Polish Princess), and The Nutcracker; Vladimir Malakhov's La Bayadère (Grand Pas, Solo Shadow, eight Bayadères), Alexei Ratmansky's Namouna (three smoking girls), John Cranko's Romeo and Juliet (Rosalind, Lily girls) and Onegin, George Balanchine's Apollo musagète, Ballet Imperial, Serenade, Emeralds, and Diamonds, Kathlyn Pope's Fairy Tale Ballet for ages 4 - Sleeping Beauty (Lilac Fairy), as well as Yuri Burlaka's and Vasily Medvedev's The Nutcracker (Arabian Dance). In 2013 and 2014, she was invited to numerous gala performances, which took her to Arcachon, Verona, Sankt Pölten, Bordeaux, and finally to China.

Since 2022, Elinor Jagodnik has dedicated herself to the transmission of cultural heritage and works as a dance teacher at Tanz ist KLASSE!, in the Education Program of the Staatsballett Berlin, where she teaches the entire spectrum of workshops, courses, projects, and dance classes, imparting her expertise and love for classical dance in all its facets.