Prisca
Zeisel

Benois de la Danse nominee

She was born in Vienna. She studied ballet at the Vienna State Opera School, the Rosella Hightower Graduate School of Dance in Cannes and the Princess Grace Academy in Monte Carlo. In 2011, she joined the troupe of the Vienna State Ballet. In the 2016/2017 season, she joined the Bavarian State Ballet as a soloist. In March 2017, she was promoted to the first soloist, and in September 2019 she was elevated to the rank of prima ballerina. On the stage of the Bavarian Ballet, she performed solo roles in ballets: Spartacus by Yuri Grigorovich (Egina), La Bayadére by Patrice Bar (Nikia, Gamzatti), Giselle by Peter Wright (Mirta), Carmen by Tomas Rode (Carmen), Sylphide by Pierre Lacotte (Effie), Don Quixote Rudolf Nureyev (The Lady of the Dryads), Anna Karenina by Christian Shpuk (Betsy) and many others.

In the 2023/24 season, she became the prima ballerina of the Mikhailovsky Theater. Her repertoire includes leading and solo roles in the ballets Swan Lake (Odette – Odile), Le Corsaire (Medora), Giselle, or Wilis (Giselle), Cinderella (Fairy of Summer), La Bayadére (Gamzatti), Bright Stream (Zina), Sleeping Beauty (Aurora), The Hunchback Horse (The Tsar Maiden), The Nutcracker (Masha). She also performs one of the ballet numbers in the opera The Lady with Camellias – a Boyar dance.

Among the ballerina's awards are the I Prize of the Vienna International Festival of Arts (2019), the III Prize of the I Xiamen International Ballet Competition (2019), the II Prize of the Shanghai International Ballet Competition (2018), the Prize of Tanz magazine White Hope (2017), the Special Jury Prize of the V International Ballet Competition in Shanghai (2016), the Prize of the Ballet Club of the Vienna State Opera and the People's Opera (2012), the II Prize of the Rome Prize (2010), the Karl Musil Prize and the Fanny Elsler Prize.

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