Elisa Badenes - Dancer of the Year 2023

We are delighted to announce that Elisa Badenes is the Dancer of the Year for 2023. Initially nominated by Lucy Van Cleef in the annual Critics’ Choice, Badenes won the readers’ vote by a substantial margin. Originally from Valencia, she studied at the Royal Ballet School on a Prix de Lausanne scholarship and is a principal with Stuttgart Ballet. She talks candidly about her career to date in an interview filmed between a rehearsal and evening performance at the opera house in Stuttgart