Elisa Badenes was born in Valencia, Spain. From 2002 until 2007 she attended the Conservatorio Profesional de Danza de Valenzia. At the Prix de Lausanne in 2008 she won a scholarship for the Royal Ballet School where she graduated one year later. One year later she took part at the Youth American Grand Prix. There she won the Gold medal in the category „Senior Women“ and an award as the best European dancer. In 2011 she participated at the competition for the Erik Bruhn Prize in Toronto, Canada and won the Audience Choice with her partner Daniel Camargo. They where performing the Pas de deux from the third Act of Don Quixote (Marius Petipa) as well as the Pas de deux Little Monsters which Demis Volpi created for them especially on this occasion.
In the 2009/10 season Elisa Badenes joined the Stuttgart Ballet as an apprentice, in 2010/11 she has been taken into the Corps de ballet. One season later her promotion to Demi Soloist followed. In the season 2012/13 she has been promoted to Soloist.
REPERTOIRE
Leading and Solo Roles with the Stuttgart Ballet- Das Fräulein von S. (Christian Spuck): Emerald
- Diana und Aktäon-Pas de deux (Agrippina Waganova)
- Don Quijote (Maximiliano Guerra): Kitri, Eva, Cupid
- Gaîté Parisienne (Maurice Béjart)
- Giselle (Inszenierung: Reid Anderson, Valentina Savina): Peasant-Pas de deux
- Initials R.B.M.E. (John Cranko): Solo roles in the 1st and 4th movement
- La Sylphide (Peter Schaufuss after August Bournonville): Effie, Pas de huit
- Nightlight (Douglas Lee)
- Onegin (John Cranko): Olga
- Romeo and Juliet (John Cranko): Gipsy
- Slice to Sharp (Jorma Elo)
- Ssss... (Edward Clug)
- Swan Lake (John Cranko): Odette/ Odile, little swan, Pas de six
- Urlicht (William Forsythe)
Specially created Roles- Big Blur (Demis Volpi): Solorolle
- Black Breath (Marco Goecke)
- Das Fräulein von S. (Christian Spuck)
- Il Concertone (Mauro Bigonzetti)
- Krabat (Demis Volpi): The Kantorka
- Little Monsters (Demis Volpi)
- Yantra (Wayne McGregor)
Specially created Roles at Noverre-Society: Young Choreographers - Blender (Katarzyna Kozielska)
- Hiraeth (Wubkje Kuindersma)
- Jesus Home (Louis Stiens)
- One (Damiano Pettenella)
- Rolo (Miles Pertl)
Corps de ballet Roles with the Stuttgart Ballet - Gaîté Parisienne (Maurice Béjart)
- Giselle (Inszenierung: Reid Anderson, Valentina Savina)
- Initials R.B.M.E. (John Cranko)
- La Sylphide (Peter Schaufuss after August Bournonville)
- Onegin (John Cranko)
- Opus 1 (John Cranko)
- RED in 3. (Jorma Elo)
- Romeo and Juliet (John Cranko)
- Siebte Sinfonie (Uwe Scholz)
- The Lady and the Fool (John Cranko): husband hunter a.o.
- The Lady of the Camellias (John Neumeier)
- Yantra (Wayne McGregor)