Tina Pereira

Tina Pereira (born She was originally given a two-year apprenticeship but was taken into the corps de ballet four months after joining, and was soon given lead roles. During the classical portion of the competition, the pair danced a pas de deux from Le Corsaire, but Hirano tore his Achilles tendon mid-performance, and she completed the pas de deux by improvising. In the contemporary portion, instead of a new ballet created for the competition by Sabrina Matthews, she danced the balcony pas de deux from Cranko's Romeo and Juliet with principal dancer Guillaume Côté.

In 2009, she was promoted to first soloist. In 2020, she was featured in Tina, a short documentary about her injury and comeback, made by David Kalinauskas. The same year, she danced Fokine's The Swan at home for Misty Copeland's fundraiser Swans for Relief, to raise funds for dancers struggling due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In 2021, the 38-year-old Pereira was named principal dancer. The promotion came late in her career.