Adriana Lizardi

Birthplace
San Juan, Puerto Rico

Training
Balletteatro Infantil; Conservatorio de Ballet Concierto; Brookline Ballet School and Boston Ballet (Trainee)

English National Ballet
Joined 2014, promoted to First Artist 2023

Previous companies
Ballet Concierto de Puerto Rico; Orlando Ballet; Ballet de l’Opéra National de Bordeaux and Royal Ballet of Flanders

Repertoire
Spanish Dance in Wayne Eagling’s Nutcracker, Cygnet and Neapolitan Dance in Derek Deane’s Swan Lake, Lead Villager in Anne Marie Holmes’s Le Corsaire, Songbird Fairy and Red Riding Hood in Kenneth MacMillan’s The Sleeping Beauty, Effy in Bournonville’s La Sylphide. Also performed in Mary Skeeping’s Giselle, Akram Khan’s Giselle, Tamara Rojo’s Raymonda, William Forsythe’s Blake Works I and Playlist (EP), Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon and Song of the Earth, Arielle Smith’s Jolly Folly, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s Broken Wings.

Favourite role
Roland Petit’s Carmen 

Role would love to dance
Giselle; Carmen and Mary Vetsera in Mayerling