Inès McIntosh

Inès McIntosh entered the Paris Opera Ballet School in 2013, where she completed all her training. In 2019, at age 16, she joined the Paris Opera Ballet Company. She was promoted to Coryphée during her first promotion contest in April 2021, and to Sujet in November 2021. That same year, she won the 1^st prize at the Nureyev Competition in Rimini. In November 2023, she was promoted to Première danseuse (First Soloist).

These promotions gave her the opportunity to perform principal roles such as Kitri in Don Quichotte, the title role in Giselle, Paquita, Clara (Masha)/Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker, the title role in Manuel Legris’ Sylvia, George Balanchine’s Theme and Variations, Flammes de Paris, Grand Pas Classique, Blake Works I, and The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude by William Forsythe, as well as numerous soloist roles across the repertoire.

She also guested with the Cape Town City Ballet in August 2023, performing Kitri in Maina Gielgud’s production of Don Quichotte, and took the leading role in Études with the Hungarian National Ballet in June 2024. She made her debut as Odette/Odile in Swan Lake in Greece, in July 2024.

Her full repertoire also includes pas de deux such as Talisman Pas de Deux, Le Corsaire, Esmeralda, MacMillan’s Concerto pas de deux, the Grand Pas from Paquita, and the lead in Two Pigeons, which she has performed at various ballet galas around the world.