Nio Hirano

Nio Hirano was born in Tokyo, Japan and trained at Pacific Dance Centre, Victoria, British Columbia. She joined The National Ballet of Canada as a Corps de Ballet member in 2023.  

Nio’s repertoire with the National Ballet includes The Nutcracker, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Don Quixote, Onegin, Jewels, Suite en Blanc and Passion. Her repertoire with other companies includes Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker by Liudmila Polonskaya after Marius Petipa, and roles in Septime Webre’s The Nutcracker, Cynthia Harvey’s The Sleeping Beauty, Kingdom of the Shades from Rudolf Nureyev’s La Bayadère and Raymonda.