
Precious Adams
Birthplace
Canton, Michigan, USA
Training
Academy of Russian Classical Ballet, Michigan; National Ballet School of Canada; Academy Princess Grace Monte Carlo, Monaco and Bolshoi Ballet Academy, Moscow.
English National Ballet
Joined 2014, First Artist 2017, Junior Soloist 2020. Autumn 2017 invited to take part in the Kenneth MacMillan – A National Celebration at the Royal Opera House dancing the Calliope Rag in Elite Syncopations with colleagues from The Royal Ballet and Northern Ballet. Nominated as a Finalist for the 2018 Emerging Dancer Competition. 2019 danced the Chosen One in Pina Bausch’s Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring). Most recently appeared as Stepsister Edwina in Christopher Wheeldon’s Cinderella. Winner of the People’s Choice Award 2022.
Career highlight
Double prize winner at the Prix de Lausanne 2014, Young Arts Finalist and Silver Medal. Awarded the Emerging Artist Award at the Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards (2018).
Role would love to dance
Juliet and Roland Petit’s Carmen
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Precious Adams, Junor Souza and Amy Raymond discuss the style of legendary choreographer William Forsythe.






Precious Adams performing A Point of Collapse, choreographed by Mthuthuzeli November, at Emerging Dancer 2018.
Precious Adams and Fernando Carratalá Coloma performing the pas de deux from Harlequinade for Emerging Dancer 2018.