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.

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