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In 2015, after Dronina contacted Karen Kain, the director of the National Ballet of Canada, she joined the company as a principal dancer. Dronina said she made the move as she wanted to have a good balance between classical works and new productions, and she believed Toronto is more suitable for her family. In 2017, after dancing Mary Skeaping’s Giselle with the English National Ballet as a guest artist, she joined the company as a lead principal, but remained a principal dancer at the National Ballet of Canada. She spent her first six months with the ENB in London, but is now based on Toronto.

Dronina was a resident guest principal with Hong Kong Ballet between 2015 and 2017, which was directed by Onne. She had host and danced in a gala in Lithuania, her home country.

Reviewing La Sylphide, The Globe and Mail an "an irresistible performer" and "there is sensuality in her movement that teeters between the creature and the woman." On her performance in Swan Lake, The Guardian wrote "her execution impeccably clean, not an ounce of energy wasted – there is something unreal about her."

Dronina is married to former Dutch National Ballet dancer Serguei Endinian, their son was born in 2012. The family resides in Toronto.

In 2010, after she had again performed the role of Kitri as a guest artist in Amsterdam, artistic director Ted Brandsen was so impressed he offered her a contract with the Dutch National Ballet. As she was looking for a broader variety of works, she accepted the position. In 2011, she received the Dutch Zwaan (swan) award for her Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty.

In 2005, Dronina joined the Royal Swedish Ballet in Stockholm, after she was spotted by the company's then-director, Madeleine Onne, at several competitions. She became a soloist in 2007. She has danced leading roles included Nikiya in La Bayadère (2006) and Juliet in MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet (2007). In 2009, when she was returning from Verona where she had danced Kitri in Don Quixote, she was asked at the last minute to perform Odette/Odile in Swan Lake as the scheduled performer was ill. She completed the assignment so successfully that she was promoted to principal dancer, at age 22.

Jurgita Dronina (born 27 March 1986) is a Russian-Lithuanian ballet dancer. She is a principal dancer with both National Ballet of Canada and English National Ballet, having previously danced with Royal Swedish Ballet and Dutch National Ballet.