Jenna Savella

Jenna Savella was born in Vancouver, British Columbia and trained at Lavrova Classical Ballet Academy in Surrey, British Columbia and Canada’s National Ballet School. She joined The National Ballet of Canada as an RBC Apprentice in 2004 and was promoted to First Soloist in 2015.  

Most recently, Jenna debuted in the title role of Helen Pickett’s world premiere of Emma Bovary and in the North American premiere of Emma Portner’s islands. She has danced such roles as Dolly in Anna Karenina, the Snow Queen in The Nutcracker, Princess Florine in The Sleeping Beauty, Bronislava in Nijinsky, Autumn in The Four Seasons, Elizabeth and Russian Dance in Swan Lake, L’Allumeuse in Le Petit Prince and the female leads in The Man in Black and Paz de la Jolla. Jenna’s repertoire also includes roles in Romeo and Juliet, Cinderella, Onegin, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The Winter’s Tale, The Merry Widow, Don Quixote, An Italian Straw Hat, Manon, Pinocchio, A Streetcar Named Desire, Hamlet, Symphony in C, The Dream, Paquita, The Four Temperaments, Allegro Brillante, Russian Seasons, MADDADDAM, The Second Detail, Approximate Sonata 2016, Chroma, Emergence, Anima Animus, Angels’ Atlas, Serenade, Symphony in C, Piano Concerto #1, Passion, The Collective Agreement, Concerto, Frame by Frame, Being and Nothingness, The Dreamers Ever Leave You and Self and Soul.   

Jenna received the Rolex Dancers First Award in 2015, the David Tory Award in 2014 and the National Ballet’s Patron Award of Merit in 2007 and 2006. She was also the recipient of a British Columbia Arts Council Scholarship and the Vancouver Foundation Scholarship.