Akane Takada is a Japanese ballerina and a principal dancer with the Royal Ballet in London.
Takada’s repertory with the Company includes Odette/Odile (Swan Lake), Giselle, Princess Aurora (The Sleeping Beauty), Sugar Plum Fairy (The Nutcracker), Olga (Onegin), Titania (The Dream), Young Girl (The Two Pigeons), Mary Vetsera (Mayerling), Mathilde Kschessinska (Anastasia), Raven (Raven Girl), Perdita and Young Shepherdess (The Winter’s Tale), Kitri (Don Quixote) and roles in The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude, Jewels, The Human Seasons, Voices of Spring, DGV: Danse à grande vitesse, The Four Temperaments, Ballo della regina, Within the Golden Hour, Multiverse and Carbon Life.