• Fiona Evans with Matthew Lehmann in Onegin.
    Fiona Evans with Matthew Lehmann in Onegin.
  • Fiona Evans and Sergey Pevnev.  Photo: Sergey Pevnev.
    Fiona Evans and Sergey Pevnev. Photo: Sergey Pevnev.
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West Australian Ballet principal dancer Fiona Evans has announced her retirement from professional dancing.  Evans first performed with the company as a guest artist in 2008 in The Red Shoes, joining as a full-time member in 2009.  She was promoted to leading artist shortly after that and has performed various lead roles with the company.  One of her most notable and moving performances was that of Tatiana in Onegin, for which she won the 2014 West Australian Dance Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Dance.  Evans was also nominated for a 2014 Helpmann Award for this performance.

Evans hails from Victoria where she trained first with the Janice James Academy, then with Marilyn Jones and Garth Welch and the Graduate College of Dance.  She then moved to Munich to join the Heinz-Bosl Academy, joining the Bavarian State Ballet after 18 months of training in Germany.

Evans gave birth to her second daughter late last year and is retiring from dance to focus on raising her children with her husband, WAB principal Sergey Pevnev.

Fiona Evans and Sergey Pevnev. Photo: Sergey Pevnev.

Fiona Evans and Sergey Pevnev.  Photo: Sergey Pevnev.

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