Ida Praetorius completed her dance training at the Royal Danish Ballet School and joined the Royal Danish Ballet in 2010, where she was promoted to Soloist in 2014 and to Principal in 2016. In 2021, she joined the Hamburg Ballet. John Neumeier created the roles of Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty (new version, 2021) and SHE in Dona Nobis Pacem for her. Her repertory in John Neumeier ballets also includes the title roles in The Lady of the Camellias and Romeo and Juliet, Princess Natalia in Illusions – like Swan Lake, Romola in Nijinsky, Louise in The Nutcracker, Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, Athena in The Odyssey, Aschenbach’s Assistant in Death in Venice and Irina Arkadina in The Seagull, as well as the title roles in Cathy Marston’s Jane Eyre and in August Bournonville’s La Sylphide. She has also performed major solos in ballets by Bournonville, Balanchine, Robbins, McGregor, Wheeldon, Marston, van Manen and Peck. Her awards include the Erik Bruhn Prize (2012) and the Queen Ingrid Honorary Grant (2013). In 2019, she won the Danish Reumert Award and was appointed Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog. This was followed in 2022 by the Premio Positano Léonide Massine.
