Ariel Daley

The American-Japanese ballet dancer Ariel Daley has received a comprehensive and multicultural dance education. Her early ballet training took place time at Kuramoto Seiko Ballet School and the Kozlova Ballet School in Japan. During her early training years, she participated in American Ballet Theater’s summer intensives from 2016 to 2020 as a national training scholar. In 2020, she was a semi-finalist in the Prix de Lausanne competition. She received her scholarship to the Accademia Teatro alla Scala in Milan, where she graduated in 2023.

Throughout her education, she gained significant stage experience performing in productions at La Scala Opera House, including The Nutcracker as the Snow Queen and Serenade by George Balanchine. 

Since 2023/24 Ariel Daley has been a member of the Youth Company of the Ballet Academy of the Vienna State Opera. She has danced in several productions of the Vienna State Ballet such as Rudolf Nureyevʼs Swan Lake, Pierre Lacotteʼs Coppélia, Elena Tschernischovaʼs Giselle as well as George Balanchine’s Symphony in C and Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet. She has also performed in televised productions, such as Bolle Danza Con Me, alongside renowned dancers like Roberto Bolle, Fumi Kaneko and Svetlana Zakharova.