Principal Guest Artist with The Royal Ballet, London since 1990
Was trained at the Paris Opera Ballet School, France.
Performed a combination of ballet and kathak with renowned Indian dancer Akram Khan in "Sacred Monsters" at London's Sadler's Wells Theatre (September 2006).
Since she is not a British citizen, she was awarded an honorary CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2003 Queen's New Year's Honours List for her services to ballet.