Born in Bucharest, Alina trained in Kiev before joining the Royal Ballet School in 1997. She was a Principal dancer with Kiev Ballet before joining The Royal Ballet in 1999. In 2001 Sir Anthony Dowell promoted Alina to the rank of principal dancer after her performance of Giselle. Alina performed as a Leading Principal Dancer with the English National Ballet from 2013 until 2020. She continues to perform as a guest artist with companies worldwide, and is a regular guest with the Hamburg Ballet. Alina has organised Galas in Romania and in London (Hospice of Hope) over the last few years. In February 2012 she premiered her Alina Cojocaru - Dream Project, in Tokyo, which she directed and staged, while performing alongside friends and colleagues from the Tokyo Ballet, Hamburg Ballet, ENB and Royal Ballet. Alina’s second Dream Project took place in 2014 and third in February 2020. In 2015 she presented a charity Gala at the Lincoln Center NY. In 2020 she presented her own programme Alina at the Wells at the Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London.

Repertory includes:

Odette/Odile in Swan Lake, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Giselle, Princess Aurora in The Sleeeping Beauty, Julie in Liliom, Marguerite Gautier in Lady of the Camellias, Vera and Natalya in A Month in the Country, Kitri in Don Quixote, Olga and Tatiana in Onegin, Cinderella, The Sugar Plum Fairy and Clara in Nutcracker, Titania in The Dream, Titania and Hippolyta in A Midsummer Nights Dream, Ballerina in Etudes, Nikiya in La Bayadère, Diamonds in Jewels, Marguerite in Marguerite and Armand, Symphonic Variations, Mary Vetsera in Mayerling, Manon, La Sylphide, In the Night, Las Hermanas, Swanilda in Coppélia, Nina in Seagull, Scènes de ballet, Gong, Masquerade, Polyphonia, Symphony in C, Chloe in Daphnis and Chloë, Lise in La Fille mal gardée, Student in The Lesson, Duo Concertant, The Leaves Are Fading, Other Dances, Voices of Spring, Beyond Bach, Tombeaux, Ondine, Virtiginous Thrill Of Exatitude, Fest Polonaise, Stars and Stripes, Raymonda Act III, Flames of Paris, Medora in Le Corsaire,Flower Festival, Napoli Act III, Grand Pas Classique, Tjakovski Pas de Deux. Musorgski Waltz, Dances at a Gathering, Dying Swan, Rushes, Two Footnotes, Chroma, Bird as a Prophet, No Man’s Land, Sylvie in In the Middle Somewhat Elevated, Spring and Fall, Approximate Sonata, Des Knaben Wunderhorn and many more.