{{short description|Spanish ballet dancer}} {{Infobox dancer | name = Elisa Badenes | image = Elisa Badenes - Photographer Roman Novitzky.jpg | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = <!-- {{birth date and age|yyyy|mm|dd}} or {{birth date|yyyy|mm|dd}} For living people supply only the year unless the exact date is already WIDELY published, as per WP:DOB --> 1992 | birth_place = Valencia, Spain | death_date = <!-- {{death date and age|deathyear|mm|dd|birthyear|mm|dd}} --> | death_place = | residence = | nationality = | citizenship = | education = Conservatorio Profesional de Danza de Valencia<br/>The Royal Ballet School | occupation = Ballet dancer | years_active = | home_town = | height = | spouse = | partner = | children = | website = <!-- {{URL|website}} --> | current_group = Stuttgart Ballet | former_groups = | dances = | module = }}
'''Elisa Badenes''' is a Spanish ballet dancer who is currently a principal dancer at the Stuttgart Ballet in Germany.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=https://www.stuttgart-ballet.de/company/elisa-badenes/|title=Elisa Badenes|work=Stuttgart Ballet|access-date=12 May 2020}}</ref>
==Early life== Badenes was born in Valencia, Spain. She started ballet at Conservatorio Profesional de Danza de Valencia at age 11.<ref name="Online Merker">{{cite web | title=Elisa Badenes – Erste Solistin des Stuttgarter Balletts – "Day by day!" | website=Online Merker | url=https://onlinemerker.com/elisa-badenes-erste-solistin-des-stuttgarter-balletts-day-by-day/ | language=de | access-date=23 August 2020}}</ref> In 2008, after competing at the Prix de Lausanne, she trained at The Royal Ballet School for a year with a scholarship.<ref name=bio/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://dancemagazine.com.au/2013/02/stuttgart-ballets-daniel-camargo-elisa-badenes/|title=Stuttgart Ballet’s Daniel Camargo & Elisa Badenes|work=Dance Informa}}</ref>
==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.<ref name=bio/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://australianballet.com.au/behind-ballet/la-bayadere-guest-artists-elisa-badenes-and-daniel-camargo|title=La Bayadère guest artists: Elisa Badenes and Daniel Camargo|work=Australian Ballet|date=20 August 2014}}</ref>
==Selected repertoire== Badenes repertoire include:<ref name=bio/>
{{div col}} *''A Streetcar named Desire'': Stella *Kingdom of Shades from ''La Bayadère'': Nikija *''Dances at a Gathering'': Pink and Apricot *''La fille mal gardée'': Lise *''Giselle'': Peasant-Pas de deux *''Le Grand Pas de deux'' *''Initials R.B.M.E.'': B., Solo roles in the 1st and 4th movement *''Krabat'': Pumphutt *''La Sylphide'': Effie, Pas de huit *''Lulu. A Monstre Tragedy'': Lulu *''Mayerling'': Baroness Mary Vetsera *''Onegin'': Tatiana, Olga *''Romeo and Juliet'': Juliet, Gipsy *''Swan Lake'': Odette/ Odile, little swan, Pas de six *''Symphony in C'': 2nd and 4th movement *''The Lady of the Camellias'': Marguerite Gautier *''The Sleeping Beauty'': Aurora, Eloquence Fairy, Blue Bird's Princess *''Song of the Earth'' *''Tchaikovsky Pas de deux'' {{div col end}}
===Created roles=== {{div col}} *''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'' {{div col end}}
==Awards== Badenes received following awards:<ref name=bio/> * 2008 Scholarship, Prix de Lausanne * 2009 Gold medal, Youth America Grand Prix * 2011 The Audience Choice Award, Erik Bruhn Prize * 2015 German Dance Prize Future
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