Weronika Frodyma
born in Cracow, Poland
Ballet Education
1999–2006 Ballet School Warsaw, honoring as the best graduate
2006–2007 School of American Ballet
Engagements
2007 Polish National Ballet, Warsaw /// 2009 Staatsballett Berlin /// 2011 Demi-Soloist /// 2019 Soloist /// since 2024 Principal Dancer
Repertory in Berlin
Vladimir Malakhov: Sleeping Beauty (Friends) and La Péri (Scottish princess); Patrice Bart: Swan Lake (four big swans, Hungarian princess), The Nutcracker (Doll), Giselle (Berthe, Bathilde); Vasily Medvedev and Yuri Burlaka: Esmeralda (four friends) and The Nutcracker (Sister of the prince, Danse des mirlitons); Angelin Preljocaj: Snow White (mirror image of the step mother) and The Nights; Xenia Wiest: To be continued and Quinque Viae – Dynamics of Existence (Masse); Maurice Béjart: Ring around the Ring (Erda); William Forsythe: Herman Schmerman; Itzik Galili: The Open Square; Alexei Ratmansky: Namouna (Ratmansky | Welch); Giorgio Madia: Don Juan (Donna Anna); William Forsythe: Herman Schmerman (Duato | Forsythe | Goecke); Nacho Duato: »Multiplicity. Forms of Silence and Emptiness« (main part), The Nutcracker (Spanish dance/Snowflake) and White Darkness (Duato | Kylián); George Balanchine: Jewels (Diamonds demi solo, Emeralds Pas de deux); Jean-Christophe Maillot: Altro Canto (Maillot | Millepied); Hofesh Shechter: The Art of Not Looking Back (Duato | Shechter); Sharon Eyal: Half Life, STRONG; Anouk van Dijk: Distant Matter (van Dijk | Eyal); William Forsythe: The Second Detail (Balanchine | Forsythe | Siegal); Alexei Ratmansky: La Bayadère (Grand Pas d'action, Pas de djambé), Arshak Ghalumyan: Mare Crisium, Olaf Kollmannsperger: 91_DIVOC; David Dawson: Voices (Dawson); Víctor Ullate: Don Quixote (Queen of the Gitanos); Marcia Haydée: Sleeping Beauty (Fee der Anmut); Mats Ek: A Sort of…; Alexander Ekman: LIB (Ekman | Eyal); Christian Spuck: Messa da Requiem, Bovary (Emma Bovary), Beethoven (20 Years of Staatsballett Berlin); Pina Bausch: The Rite of Spring; Sharon Eyal: 2 Chapters Love; William Forsythe: Approximate Sonata 2016, Blake Works I; Marcos Morau: Overture; Crystal Pite: Angels' Atlas;
Competitions | Awards
2005 2nd Prize 14th Dance Competition Gdansk, Poland /// 2005 1st Prize 4th International Youth Competition for Classical Dance Kharkov, Ukraine /// 2024 Dancer of the Year, tanz Magazine
Other Achievements
Aneta Popiel-Machnicka and Michal Popiel-Machnicki filmed a long time documentation about the profession of Weronika Frodyma.