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Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Luciana Paris began her ballet training at the age of seven with Elena Perez. From 1991-1996 she studied at The Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón
with Katty Gallo and Raul and Candal. She won a Gold Medal at the Latin American Dance Competition
in 1995.
In 1996 Paris was invited by Maximilano Guerra to join Ballet Camara and tour with the company in Argentina. She then joined Ballet Estable del Teatro Colón as a soloist where she performed the role of Red Riding Hood in The Sleeping Beauty. She then joined Julio Bocca's Ballet Argentino
where she became Bocca’s partner. In 1997, with the Ballet Argentino, Paris went on a national tour in Argentina and an international tour in Athens, Rio de Janeiro, San Pablo and Montevideo. Paris appeared
at a gala in Birmingham, England dancing the pas de deux from Coppélia with Julio Bocca.
In 1998, also with Ballet Argentino, Paris toured Greece, Brazil, Italy, Spain, China, Japan, Germany, the United States, Israel, Thailand, France, Cuba, Panama, Singapore and Chile.
Paris joined American Ballet Theatre as a member of the corps de ballet in October 2001.
Her repertoire with the Company includes the lead D'Jampe and a Shade in La Bayadère, one of Zina's friends in The Bright Stream, Her Other Stepsister and Moss in Cinderella, Mazurka Lady and Lead Mazurka/Czardas in Coppélia, Odalisque and the Lead Pirate Woman in Le Corsaire, a flower girl and the lead gypsy in Don Quixote, Bathilde in Giselle, Prudence in Lady of the Camellias, a Can-Can Lady in The Merry Widow, Columbine, Spanish Dance and one of The Nutcracker's Sisters in Alexei Ratmansky's
The Nutcracker, a Carnival Dancer in Othello, the Lead Polovtsian Girl in the Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor, Lead Saracen Dancer in Raymonda, the cowgirl in Rodeo, Rosaline and a Harlot in Romeo and Juliet, Sinatra Suite, Fairy of Joy in The Sleeping Beauty, a little swan, the Spanish Princess and the Spanish Dance in Swan Lake, Persephone in Sylvia, and roles in Airs, Allegro Brillante, Baker's Dozen, Ballet Imperial, Ballo della Regina, Black Tuesday, The Brahms-Haydn Variations, Brief Fling, Company B, Dark Elegies, Désir, Duets, Dumbarton, Études, Firebird, Glow-Stop, Gong, In the Upper Room, Jardin aux Lilas, One of Three, Petite Mort, Pillar of Fire, Rabbit and Rogue, Symphonie Concertante, Symphony #9, Symphony in C and Theme and Variations.
She created a leading role in Concerto No. 1 for Piano and Orchestra.
Paris danced Twyla Tharp's Sinatra Suite with Marcelo Gomes at the 2008 Kennedy Center Honors and at the Smith Center for the Performing Arts Gala Opening in Las Vegas in 2012.
In 2012 American Ballet Theatre designated Paris as a Certified Teacher.
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