Set to piano studies by Jean Sibelius, the duet sees them in a ‘physical conversation devoid of language miscommunication’. Natalia Osipova is one of the world’s great ballerinas and the Royal Ballet’s most bankable star. “If I’m in an intense project, I become more needy,” she says. I’m very aware of my own power. One of the great exponents of classical ballet, Natalia Osipova, finds herself in an ambivalent dynamic with Jason Kittelberger in the world première of his Once with. Natalia Osipova and Jason Kittelberger in Six Years Later. There is no information about his age yet. Physically and emotionally, I’m a really strong person, in art and in life. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian “He does see a bit of the child in me, in a good way.

80.4k Followers, 84 Following, 116 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Natalia Osipova (@natalia_osipova_official) Kittelberger provides Osipova with essential support off stage as well as on. So it comes as something of a surprise to learn … Likewise, we couldn’t gather information about his birth … It sounds like Osipova has found her lockdown rhythm, no doubt helped along by her American fiancé Jason Kittelberger (a contemporary dancer). They met in 2018 performing Roy Assaf’s Six Years Later, a portrait of a tired and tetchy relationship, where Kittelberger was credited as being an ‘equal’ to the bewitching Osipova on stage. Kittelberger is currently working alongside Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui as assistant choreographer, rehearsal director and dancer in productions like Shell Shock, Fractus V, Pluto, Firebird with Stuttgart Ballet, m¡longa, Puz/zle, Icon, Harbor Me with L.A. Dance Project, Satyagraha, Pelléas et Mélisande, and Qutb, where he partners with Natalia Osipova and James O’Hara.