International Dance Academy

Lorena Vidal Walker

Lorena Vidal Walker

Lorena was born in Santiago, Chile and attended the Ballet de Santiago School, studying with Osvaldo Gėldres and Alicia Targarona, and was awarded a scholarship for her studies in the Vaganova method. She joined the professional company at the age of 16 and in a few years was dancing soloist roles in the resident theatre and on tour with the company in Latin America and New York. Lorena was invited by her director, Ivan Nagy, to join him as a dancer with the Cincinnati Ballet / New Orleans. Here she continued to dance many soloist and leading roles in: Les Syliphides, Sleeping Beauty, Raymonda Variations, Nutcracker, Concerto Barroco, La Syliphide, Etudes, Raymonda pas de Dix and Taming of the Shrew.

 After nearly three years Lorena was asked to join the Northern Ballet Theatre as a Leading Artist by the artist director Christopher Gable. Here she danced leading roles in all of the major productions including: Don Quixote, El Corsario, Romeo & Juliet, Liasions Amoureuses, A simple Man, Giselle, Lipizzaner and Dance Ensemble, in all of the main theatres of major cities of Great Britain and on foreign tours to Prague, Bruno, Bratislava and Thessalonica.

 In the Northern Ballet Theatre’s production of Swan Lake, she created the role of Odile and also danced the role of Odette. In their production of A Christmas Carol, as well as dancing the part of ‘Belle’, she created the role of ‘The Ghost of Christmas Past’, a part she played when the production was televised by the BBC and screened on Christmas Day 1993. She also created the roles of the younger stepsister in NBT’s Cinderella, and Cathy in Gillian Lynn’s ballet “The Brontes”.

 In 1995 Mrs. Vidal Walker was invited to guest, dancing the title role of Giselle, with the Romanian National Ballet Company, in their national theatre in Bucharest.

 After a 15 year dancing career, Lorena was offered the position of Pedagogue for the Culture school of Bergen where over five years, she has successfully choreographed and produced ballets and dances that have been performed all over Bergen and in Grieghallen.

Lorena has continued to dance in ballets produced by Vidal-Walker Productions and in Carte Blanche's 2001 gala.

 She has a passion for dance and music, which she instills in all of her students. This has enabled them to successfully gain entry to renowned dance institutions both in Norway and in England.

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