Jolie Rose Lombardo

Corps de ballet

Jolie Rose Lombardo

Corps de ballet

Vita

Jolie Rose Lombardo was born in Tyler, Texas (USA) and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. At the age of 8 she began her ballet training at the Dance Theatre Atlanta. In 2015 she attended the International City School of Ballet in Atlanta. In 2016 she received a scholarship for the Orlando Ballet School. In 2018 she won the Gold medal at the finals of the Youth America Grand Prix and received a scholarship for the John Cranko Schule from which she graduated in 2021.

Jolie Rose Lombardo has successfully participated in several competitions. In 2016 and 2017 she took part in the YAGP in New York and reached the finals. In 2016 she won the Shelley King Award. At the Youth International Ballet Competition 2018 in Tampa, Florida she won the Gold medal in Classical Ballet as well as in Contemporary (2017 and 2018). At the International Ballet Competition in Jackson, Mississippi she reached the finals as the youngest competitor.

In the 2020-21 season Jolie Rose Lombardo was an apprentice with the Stuttgart Ballet, one season later she became a mamber of the Corps de ballet.
Photo Roman Novitzky

Repertoire

Solo Roles with the Stuttgart Ballet
  • Concerto (Kenneth MacMillan): Pas de deux
  • Ifima (Louis Stiens, Shaked Heller)

Specially created Roles
  • The Nutcracker (Edward Clug): fairy of the forest

Specially created Roles at Noverre: Young Choreographers
  • Better late than never (Adrian Oldenburger)

Corps de ballet Roles with the Stuttgart Ballet
  • Mayerling (Kenneth MacMillan)
  • Onegin (John Cranko)
  • The Sleeping Beauty (Marcia Haydée after Marius Petipa)
  • The Taming of the Shrew (John Cranko)