Tina Pereira

Principal Dancer

Tina Pereira is sponsored through Dancers First by The Honourable Margaret Norrie McCain, C.C.

Quick Facts

Born: Port of Spain, Trinidad
Trained: Canada’s National Ballet School
Joined: 2001
Principal Dancer Since: 2021

Tina Pereira was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and trained at Canada’s National Ballet School. She joined The National Ballet of Canada in 2001, leaving in 2004 to dance with Het Nationale Ballet. Tina re-joined The National Ballet of Canada in 2006 and was promoted to Principal Dancer in 2021.

Most recently, Tina made her debut as Olga in John Cranko’s Onegin and performed in the Canadian premiere of James Kudelka’s Passion. A strong technician with gorgeous lines, Tina brings elegance to each role she performs. Her repertoire includes Odette/Odile in Swan Lake, directed and staged by Karen Kain, The Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker, the title role in Cinderella, Valencienne in The Merry Widow, Lise in La Fille mal gardée, Katerina in The Taming of the Shrew, Spring in The Four Seasons, the title role in Carmen, Perditia and Young Shepherdess in The Winter’s Tale, Le Serpent in Le Petit Prince as well as lead roles in Symphony in C, Monotones I, In The Upper Room, Chroma and Emeralds. She has also danced roles in The Sleeping Beauty, Romeo and Juliet, Giselle, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Nijinsky, Pinocchio, Paquita, The Four Temperaments, MADDADDAM, The Second Detail, The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude, Genus, Emergence and Alleged Dances.

In 2007, Tina won The International Competition for The Erik Bruhn Prize and was invited to perform Prokofiev Pas de Deux at the New York debut of Morphoses.
1. Petite Mort
2. The Winters Tale
3. The Four Seasons
4. Cinderella
5. In The Upper Room

Tina Pereira in The Nutcracker. Photo by Karolina Kuras.
Harrison James and Tina Pereira in Onegin. Photo by Karolina Kuras.
Tina Pereira with Artists of the Ballet in Swan Lake. Photo by Karolina Kuras.
Tina Pereira in Serenade. Photo by Karolina Kuras.
Tina Pereira in Etudes. Photo by Karolina Kuras.
Tina Pereira in The Winter's Tale. Photo by Karolina Kuras.
Tina Pereira with Artists of the Ballet in The Sleeping Beauty. Photo by Aleksandar Antonijevic,
Tina Pereira and Spencer Hack in Petite Mort.

Reviews

“The Bee is a brilliant virtuoso intervention during the famous Waltz of the Flowers that has Pereira weaving through the Corps de Ballet in thrilling fashion.”

The Globe and Mail

The Nutcracker
“Tina Pereira's gorgeous line and hyperextended legs were also highlighted to great effect.”

DanceViewTimes.com

Chroma
“…Tina Pereira... was absolutely gorgeous to watch through the ebb and flow of this living piece of art.”

The Globe and Mail

Monotones I

Tina Pereira. Photo by Karolina Kuras.