Madison Young
Principal Dancer
Madison hails from Utah, USA. She received her education at Ballet West Academy and Houston Ballet Academy in Texas. After attending the Prix de Lausanne in 2016, upon receiving the Beau Rivage Palace Second Place Award, she accepted an apprenticeship for Houston Ballet in the season 2016/17, where she was promoted to group dancer in 2017. For the season 2017/18 she joined Wiener Staatsballet as a corps de ballet member under the direction of Manuel Legris. In 2018 she was promoted to soloist and in 2019 to first soloist. With the beginning of the 2020/21 she joined Bayerisches Staatsballet as a first soloist. In December 2021 she was promoted to principal dancer.
(Information as of September 2024)
Roles in the 2024/25 season (updated periodically)
Tatjana in Onegin (John Cranko)
Female Soloist in Le Parc (Angelin Preljocaj)
Title role in La Sylphide (Pierre Lacotte after Filippo Taglioni)
Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (John Cranko)
Dancer in Silent Screen (Sol León und Paul Lightfoot), as part of the Schmetterling Double Bill
Dancer in Schmetterling (Sol León & Paul Lightfoot), as part of theSchmetterling Double Bill
Title Role in Giselle (Peter Wright after Coralli/Perrot/Petipa)
Dancer in Bella Figura (Jiří Kylián), as part of theWings of Memory Triple Bill
Dancer in The Rite of Spring (Pina Bausch), as part of theWings of Memory Triple Bill
Odette in Illusionen – wie Schwanensee (John Neumeier)
Selected previous roles
Odette/Odile in Swan Lake (Ray Barra)
Title Role in Cinderella (Christopher Wheeldon)
Miranda in Tchaikovsky Overtures (Alexei Ratmansky)
Hippolyta/Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream (John Neumeier)
Nikiya in La Bayadère (Patrice Bart after Marius Petipa)
Titele Role in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Christopher Wheeldon)