Madoka Sugai (菅井円加, Sugai Madoka, born 1994) is a Japanese ballet dancer who is currently a principal dancer with the Hamburg Ballet. Early life Sugai was born in Atsugi, Kanagawa Prefecture. She trained at Sasaki Mika Ballet Academy in Yamato, Kanagawa. Career In 2012, Sugai won the Prix de Lausanne in Switzerland, for which Miyako Yoshida was a juror. After her victory, she was offered an apprenticeship to The Hamburg Ballet's second company, National Youth Ballet, and joined the main company in 2014. In 2016, she danced a pax de deux from Flower Festival in Genzano with colleague Christopher Evans at the Erik Bruhn Prize. She became a soloist in the following year and principal dancer in 2019. Her repertoire includes works by John Neumeier, Rudolf Nureyev and Jerome Robbins, and she originated a role in Neumeier's Beethoven Project. Selected repertoire Sugai's repertoire with the Hamburg Ballet includes: References External links Sugai at the Prix de Lausanne Sugai in Don Quixote Japanese ballerinas Living people 1994 births 21st-century ballet dancers Japanese expatriates in Germany Prima ballerinas People from Atsugi, Kanagawa Prix de Lausanne winners