Helena Balla

Lecturer in Ballet
🇪🇸, She/Her
Born in Barcelona, she began her dance studies at the Studio Isadora. In 2008 she moved to Madrid to continue at the Víctor Ullate School and perfected his classical training at the Carmina Ocaña and Pablo Savoye Ballet School. Her professional career began in 2009 being part of Victor Ullate’s Youth Ballet and in 2011 she joined the Barcelona Ballet under the direction of Ángel Corella. In 2014 she traveled to Germany to participate as a guest dancer in the Staatstheater Ballet Nürnberg companies, directed by Goyo Montero and Ballet Hagen under the direction of Ricardo Fernando. From 2014 to 2021 she has been part of the cast of the National Dance Company in Spain. During her professional career she danced in works by Nacho Duato, Jose Carlos Martinez, William Forsythe, Goyo Montero, George Balanchine, Ohad Naharin, Johan Inger, among others. Nowadays, she combines her artistic and teaching career, training at the María de Ávila Superior Conservatory, studying the Higher Degree in Pedagogy of classical dance.