Rachele Buriassi

Rachele Buriassi was born in Sarzana, Italy and started ballet at the age of 4. At 11, she won a full scholarship to attend École De Danse de Rosella Hightower in Cannes, France.

Three years later, Rachele moved to Stuttgart, Germany to attend the John Cranko School where she took Vaganova training classes. After graduating in 2006, she joined the Corps de Ballet of the famous Stuttgart Ballet. In 2010, Rachele was promoted to Second soloist and in 2012 to First soloist. She joined the Boston Ballet in 2015 as First Soloist, before joining, in 2019, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal as Principal dancer. Rachele also teaches and is invited as a guest dancer in various productions around the world.

Lead and solo roles:

• Odette/Odile, Tall Swans, Pas de Six in John Cranko’s Swan Lake
• Kitri, Mercedes, Queen of Dryads in Maximiliano’s Guerra Don Quijote
• Manon, Prudence in John Neumeier’s Lady Of The Camelias
• Lead Role in Glen Tetley’s The Rite of Spring
• Lead Role in George Balanchine’s Theme and Variations
• Lead Role in George Balanchine’s Allegro Brillante
• Sugar Plum Fairy, Snow Queen, Arabian dance in Mikko Nissinen’s The Nutcracker
• Lead Role in George Balanchine’s Kammer Musik
• Lilac Fairy, Carabosse in Marius Petipa’s Sleeping Beauty
• Red Couple in Jiri Kylian's Forgotten Land
• William Forsythe’s The Vertiginous Thrill Of Exactitude
• Jiri Kylian Wings of Wax
• Solo Role in Mc Millan’s The Song of the Earth
• Posthorn in John Neumeier's The Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler
• William Forsythe’s Artifact
• Jorma Elo’s Slice to Sharp
• Solo Role in Uwe Scholz’ Beethoven Seventh Symphony
• Solo Role in Kevin O’ Day’s Hamlet
• Solo Role and Lead Role in John Cranko’s Initialen R.M.B.E
• Lead Role and Solo Role in Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s The Firebird
• The Wife in Jerome Robbins’ The Concert
• Jerome Robbins’ Glasspieces
• Lead Pas De Deux in Vasily Vainonen’s Flames of Paris
• Solo Role in Marco Goecke’s Orlando
• Solo Role in Wayne McGregor’s Yantra
• Solo Role in Jorma Elo’s Red in Three
• Lead Pas de Deux in Mauro Bigonzetti’s The Kazimir’s Colors
• Lead Pas de Deux, Solo Role in William Forsythe’s WWW
• Alexander Ekmann’s Cacti
• Leonid Yacobson’s Pas De Quatre
• Solo Role in Jorma Elo’s Creature of Egmont
• Gypsies In John Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet
• Lead Pas de Deux in Marius Petipa’s Le Corsaire
• Solo Role in Christian Spuck’s The Siebte Blau
• Lead Role in Mc Millan’s Las Hermanas
• Solo Role in Edward Clug’s Sssh
• Rolando D’Alesio’s Come Neve al Sole
• Choleric in George Balanchine’s The 4 Temperaments

Choregraphies created for her:

• The Concertone by Mauro Bigonzetti
• The Firebird by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
• Lady Of The Camelias by Yuri Yanowsky
• In 2 by Fabio Adorisio
• Artifact by William Forsythe
• Sibelius by Jorma Elo
• Orlando by Marco Goecke
• Finale by Yuri Yanowsky
• Hamlet by Kevin O’Day
• Das Fraulein von S by Christian Spuck
• Two at the Time by Cayetano Soto
• Matchbox by Louis Stiens
• Sssh by Edward Clug
• Ela by Paulo Arrais
• Smoke and Mirrors by Yuri Yanowsky and more
• ÉCHO by Edouar Lock

2005 - 2nd price at the “Tanzolymp” competition in Berlin
2006 - Special Price “Wish to Will” at the Vaganova Grand Prix in St. Petersburg
2009 - Guest to the prestigious Erik Brühn competition in Toronto
2014 - Premio Donna Leader by EWMD (European Women’s Management Network)
2024 - Danza & Danza Award (Italian Dancers Abroad category)