Elisa Badenes

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Elisa Badenes
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Born1992
Valencia, Spain
EducationConservatorio Profesional de Danza de Valencia
The Royal Ballet School
Occupation Ballet dancer
Career
Current group Stuttgart Ballet

Elisa Badenes is a Spanish ballet dancer who is currently a principal dancer at the Stuttgart Ballet in Germany. [1]

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Early life

Badenes was born in Valencia, Spain. She started ballet at Conservatorio Profesional de Danza de Valencia at age 11. [2] In 2008, after competing at the Prix de Lausanne, she trained at The Royal Ballet School for a year with a scholarship. [1] [3]

Career

In 2009, Badenes became an apprentice with Stuttgart Ballet as after she graduated, and became a member of the company's corps de ballet a year later. She became a principal dancer in 2013. Roles she performed include Odette/Odile in Swan Lake , Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty , Juliet in Romeo and Juliet , Tatiana in Onegin and Baroness Mary Vetsera in Mayerling . She has also danced in productions by Jerome Robbins, George Balanchine, Hans van Manen and William Forsythe, and worked with choreographers such as Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Wayne McGregor and Christian Spuck. As a guest artist, Badenes performed with The Australian Ballet. [1] [4]

Selected repertoire

Badenes repertoire include: [1]

Created roles

  • The Firebird (Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui)
  • A. Memory
  • Almost Blue
  • Big Blur
  • Black Breath
  • Calma Apparente
  • Das Fräulein von S.
  • Dark Glow
  • Il Concertone
  • Krabat: The Kantorka
  • Limelight
  • Little Monsters
  • Messenger
  • Naiad (Douglas Lee)
  • Neurons
  • PS
  • Qi
  • Salome: Salome
  • Skinny
  • Yantra

Awards

Badenes received following awards: [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Elisa Badenes". Stuttgart Ballet. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  2. "Elisa Badenes – Erste Solistin des Stuttgarter Balletts – "Day by day!"". Online Merker (in German). Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  3. "Stuttgart Ballet's Daniel Camargo & Elisa Badenes". Dance Informa.
  4. "La Bayadère guest artists: Elisa Badenes and Daniel Camargo". Australian Ballet. 20 August 2014.