Luciana Paris

Photo: Jade Young.

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 Colón Theater Superior de Art Institute with Katty Gallo and Raul Candal. In 1996, Paris was invited by Maximiliano Guerra to join Ballet Camara and tour with the company in Argentina, and she later joined the Teatro Colón Ballet as a soloist.

In December 1996, Paris joined Julio Bocca’s Ballet Argentino as a principal dancer and became Bocca’s dance partner. From 1997 to 2001, Paris and Bocca danced together in a vast classical, neoclassical, and modern repertoire. In December 1996, Paris joined Julio Bocca’s Ballet Argentino as a principal dancer and became Bocca’s dance partner. From 1997 to 2001, Paris and Bocca danced together in a vast classical, neoclassical, and modern repertoire. Paris toured with Bocca and Ballet Argentino throughout Argentina and to countries around the world, including Greece, Brazil, Italy, Spain, China, Japan, Germany, the United States, Israel, Thailand, France, Cuba, Panama, Singapore, and Chile.

Paris was a dancer with American Ballet Theatre from 2001 to 2024. She joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet in October 2001 and was promoted to Soloist in August 2015. Her repertoire with ABT included Lead D’Jampe and a Shade in La Bayadère, Her Other Stepsister and Moss in James Kudelka’s Cinderella, Lead Mazurka/Czardas, Mazurka Lady, and Prayer in Coppélia, Lead Pirate Woman and an Odalisque in Le Corsaire, Mercedes, a Flower Girl, and the Lead Gypsy Woman in Don Quixote, First Passer-By in Fancy Free, the Flower Girl in Gaîté Parisienne, Bathilde, the peasant pas de deux, and Moyna in Giselle, Old Mother in The Green Table, Bertha Mason in Jane Eyre, Prudence in Lady of the Camellias, Nacha in Like Water for Chocolate, Columbine, one of the Nutcracker’s Sisters, and the Spanish Dance in Alexei Ratmansky’s The Nutcracker, Sergiy’s Mother in On the Dnipro, The Nurse in Onegin, a Carnival Dancer in Othello, Lead Polovtsian Girl in Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor, the Saracen Dance in Raymonda, the Cowgirl in Rodeo, Lady Capulet, the Nurse, Rosaline, and a Harlot in Romeo and Juliet, Diamond Fairy, the Fairy Fleur de farine (Wheat flower), and Silver Fairy in Ratmansky’s The Sleeping Beauty, Sinatra Suite, the pas de trois, a little swan, the Spanish Princess, and the Spanish Dance in Swan Lake, Persephone in Sylvia, Princess Praline in Whipped Cream, leading roles in The Brahms-Haydn Variations, Seven Sonatas, Symphonic Variations, Symphony #9, and With A Chance of Rain, and featured roles in Airs, Bach Partita, Baker’s Dozen, Black Tuesday, Brief Fling, Company B, Deuce Coupe, Duets, Dumbarton, Glow-Stop, In the Upper Room, The Leaves Are Fading, One of Three, Petite Mort, Raymond Divertissements, and Sinfonietta, She created a Consort in A Gathering of Ghosts, Callirhoe’s Maid in Of Love and Rage, Snow in The Seasons, leading roles in Concerto Number 1 for Piano and Orchestra and ZigZag, and a featured role in AfterEffect.

In 2012, Paris was designated a Certified Teacher in the ABT National Training Curriculum. She joined the faculty of ABT Studio Company in September 2020 and was named ABT Studio Company Contributing Rehearsal Director in September 2021. Paris was appointed Director of Repertoire at American Ballet Theatre in May 2025.