Principal
Sena Hidaka was born in Hyogo, Japan. Following her training at the Vaganova Ballet Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia from 2008 to 2011, Sena joined the Bucharest National Opera in 2011, where she rose to the rank of Principal by 2014. She joined Tulsa Ballet in 2016 and was promoted to Principal in 2019. Sena’s repertoire includes in Don Quixote (Holmes), The Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake (Angelini), Giselle, La Sylphide, Le Corsaire, La Bayadere, La Fille mal gardée (Ashton), The Nutcracker (Angelini), Cinderella, Dracula (Stevenson), A Million Kisses to my Skin (Dawson), Strictly Gershwin (Dean), Glass Figures, Pentaptych, Escaping the Weight of Darkness (Ma Cong), Second to Last (Cerrudo), Who Cares? (Balanchine), Prawn-watching (Caniparoli), Concerto DSCH (Ratmansky), Petite Mort (Kylián), and soloist couple in Classical Symphony (Possokhov), to name a few. She has also worked with choreographers such as Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, Edwaard Liang, Adam Hougland, Young Soon Hue, and Luciano Cannito.