Daisy Long was born and raised in California, USA. She started her ballet education in 2000 at the Marat Dankayev School of Ballet in Los Angeles and continued it at the John Cranko Schule in Stuttgart, where she graduated in 2008. Daisy Long participated in numerous competitions and won the third prize in the “Classical Divison” and the first prize in the “Contemporary Divison” at the Youth American Grand Prix in 2006.
In the season 2008/09 Daisy Long joined the Stuttgart Ballet as an apprentice. One year later she was taken into the Corps de ballet.
REPERTOIRE
Solo Roles with the Stuttgart Ballet - The Taming of the Shrew (John Cranko): Street Girl
Specially created Roles - Dancer in the Dark (Marco Goecke/Louis Stiens)
- Das Fräulein von S. (Christian Spuck)
- Double Bass Conerto (Bridget Breiner)
- Krabat (Demis Volpi)
- Zeitsprünge (Bridget Breiner)
Corps de ballet Roles with the Stuttgart Ballet - Big Blur (Demis Volpi)
- Don Quijote (Maximiliano Guerra)
- Forgotten Land (Jiří Kylian)
- Gaîté Parisienne (Maurice Béjart)
- Giselle (Production: Reid Anderson, Valentina Savina)
- Initials R.B.M.E. (John Cranko)
- La fille mal gardée (Sir Frederick Ashton)
- La Sylphide (Peter Schaufuss after August Bournonville)
- Leonce and Lena (Christian Spuck)
- Onegin (John Cranko)
- Poème de l’extase (John Cranko)
- Requiem (Kenneth MacMillan)
- Romeo and Juliet (John Cranko): Lady Montague a.o.
- Siebte Sinfonie (Uwe Scholz)
- Swan Lake (John Cranko)
- The Lady and the Fool (John Cranko)
- The Lady of the Camellias (John Neumeier)
- The Sleeping Beauty (Márcia Haydée after Marius Petipa)
- The Taming of the Shrew (John Cranko)
- Theme and Variations (George Balanchine)