In 2012, Sugai won the Prix de Lausanne in Switzerland, for which Miyako Yoshida was a juror.[3] After her victory, she was offered an apprenticeship to The Hamburg Ballet's second company, National Youth Ballet,[4] 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.[5] 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.[1][6]
Selected repertoire
Sugai's repertoire with the Hamburg Ballet includes:[1]