Elisa Badenes was born in Valencia, Spain. She began her ballet training with the Conservatorio Profesional de Danza de Velanzia from 2002 to 2007, and graduated in 2008 at the Royal Ballet School. In 2009, Elisa Badenes became an apprentice with the Stuttgart Ballet and was invited to join the Company as a member of the Corps de ballet in the 2010/11 season. One season later she was promoted to the rank of demi soloist and in the 2012/13 season, she was promoted to principle dancer.
Elisa Badenes participated in various competitions. In 2008 at the Prix the Lausanne, she won a scholarship for the Royal Ballet School. One year later she participated at the Youth American Grand Prix, where she won the Gold Medal in the category “Senior Women” and was awarded as the “Best European Dancer”. In 2011 she competed for the Erik Bruhn Prize in Toronto (Canada) and won the “Audience Choice” with her partner Daniel Camargo. They performed the Pas de deux from the third Act of Marius Petipa’s Don Quixote, as well as the Pas de deux of Demis Volpi’s Little Monsters. Demis Volpi created the Pas de deux for this very special occasion. In the 2017/15 season, Elisa Badenes won the "German Dance Prize Future".
REPERTOIRE
Leading Roles and Solo Roles with the Stuttgart Ballet- A Streetcar Named Desire (John Neumeier): Stella
- Aftermath (Demis Volpi): Solo role
- Brouillards (John Cranko): Voiles
- Concerto for Flute and Harp (John Cranko)
- Dances at a Gathering (Jerome Robbins): Roles in Apricot and in Pink
- Das Fräulein von S. (Christian Spuck): Emerald
- Diana und Aktäon-Pas de deux (Agrippina Waganova)
- Don Quijote (Maximiliano Guerra): Kitri, Eva, Cupid
- Faun (Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui)
- Forgotten Land (Jiří Kylián)
- Gaîté Parisienne (Maurice Béjart)
- Giselle (Inszenierung: Reid Anderson, Valentina Savina): Giselle, Peasant-Pas de deux
- Grand pas classique (Victor Gsovsky)
- Holberg Pas de deux (John Cranko)
- Hommage à Bolshoi (John Cranko)
- Initials R.B.M.E. (John Cranko): B., Solo roles in the 1st and 4th movement
- Kammerballett (Hans van Manen)
- Krabat (Demis Volpi): Pumphutt
- L'Estro Armonico (John Cranko)
- La fille mal gardée (Frederick Ashton): Lise
- La Sylphide (Peter Schaufuss after August Bournonville): Effie, Pas de huit
- Leonce and Lena (Christian Spuck): Lena
- Miniatures (Douglas Lee)
- Nightlight (Douglas Lee)
- On Velvet (Marco Goecke)
- Onegin (John Cranko): Tatjana, Olga
- Othello (John Neumeier): Desdemona
- Pas de deux: La Bayadère (Marius Petipa)
- Requiem (Kenneth MacMillan): Solo role
- Romeo and Juliet (John Cranko): Juliet, Gipsy
- Slice to Sharp (Jorma Elo)
- Ssss... (Edward Clug)
- Swan Lake (John Cranko): Odette/ Odile, little swan, Pas de six
- Symph (Katarzyna Kozielska)
- The Four Temperaments (George Balanchine): Second Theme, Sanguinic
- The Second Detail (William Forsythe)
- The Sleeping Beauty (Marcia Haydée): Aurora, Eloquence Fairy, Blue Bird's Princess
- The Song of the Earth (Kenneth MacMillan): Solo role
- The Taming of the Shrew (John Cranko): Katharina, Bianca
- Tschaikowsky- Pas de deux (George Balanchine)
- Urlicht (William Forsythe)
- Variations for two Couples (Hans van Manen)
- workwithinwork (William Forsythe)
Specially created Roles- A. Memory (Katarzyna Kozielska): Solo role
- Almost Blue (Marco Goecke)
- Big Blur (Demis Volpi): Solorolle
- Black Breath (Marco Goecke)
- Dark Glow (Katarzyna Kozielska)
- Das Fräulein von S. (Christian Spuck)
- Firebird (Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui)
- Il Concertone (Mauro Bigonzetti)
- Krabat (Demis Volpi): The Kantorka
- Little Monsters (Demis Volpi)
- Neurons (Katarzyna Kozielska)
- Qi (Louis Stiens)
- PS (Katarzyna Kozielska)
- Salome (Demis Volpi): Salome
- Skinny (Louis Stiens): Solo Role
- 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)
- Second Self(ie) (Jesse Fraser)
Corps de ballet Roles with the Stuttgart Ballet - Das siebte Blau (Christian Spuck)
- 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)
- The Song of the Earth (Kenneth MacMillan)
- Yantra (Wayne McGregor)