Léa Fleytoux

Photo: Anita Buzzy Prentiss and Rachel Neville.

Léa Fleytoux was born in Vietnam and raised in France. She began her ballet training with Nicole Chouret in Paris then studied at the Conservatoire Municipal Camille Saint-Saens (2007-2010), École National Danse Marseille (2010-2013), and Conservetoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (2013-2016). Fleytoux was offered a scholarship to the American Ballet Theatre Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School in September 2016 after being selected to the Prix de Lausanne.

Fleytoux joined ABT Studio Company in January 2017, became an apprentice with the main Company in December 2018, and joined the corps de ballet in June 2019. She was promoted to Soloist in July 2024. Her repertoire includes the Grand Pas de Deux and Amour in Don Quixote, the French Ballerina in Gala Performance, the peasant pas de deux and Zulma in Giselle, a Shade in The Kingdom of the Shades, the Waltz in Les Sylphides, Chencha in Like Water for Chocolate, Clara, the Princess, one of the Nutcracker’s Sisters and the Chinese Dance in Alexei Ratmanky’s The Nutcracker, Rhapsody pas de deux, Princess Florine in Susan Jaffe’s The Sleeping Beauty, Act III, the pas de trois, a little swan, and the Hungarian Princess in Swan Lake, a Goat in Sylvia, Perdita and Lead Shepherdess in The Winter’s Tale, Young Clarissa in Woolf Works, a leading role in La Boutique, and featured roles in Bach Partita, In the Upper Room, Mercurial Son, Push Comes to Shove, and Songs of Bukovina. She created a featured role in Collage & Creed.

ABT is grateful to Denise Littlefield Sobel and the Margaret King Moore Dancer Award for supporting the Dancer Fund in honor of Léa Fleytoux.