Keira Sanford was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia and trained at Canada’s National Ballet School. She joined The National Ballet of Canada in 2022 as an RBC Apprentice and was promoted to Corps de Ballet in 2024.
Most recently, Keira debuted in La Sieste and Sérénade in Serge Lifar’s Suite en Blanc. Her repertoire includes Russian Dance in Swan Lake, Princess Sorokina in Anna Karenina and roles in The Sleeping Beauty, Romeo and Juliet, The Nutcracker, Giselle, Don Quixote, Onegin, Cinderella, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, MADDADDAM, Pinocchio, Emma Bovary, Jewels, Symphony in C, Concerto, The Leaves are Fading, Rhapsody, Passion and Kismet.
Keira was awarded the RBC Emerging Artist Award in 2023 and the Peter Dwyer Award in 2021.
