OLIVIA SPARLING (USA)
Olivia started studying classical ballet at the age of 8 at Westside Ballet where she was coached by Martine Harley, Yvonne Mounsey, and Francine Kessler and at the age of 13, continued at the Marat Daukayev Ballet School. In 2014, she studied in Moscow at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy under the direction of Mikhail Lavrovsky and Marina Leonova, and studied with Ludmila Kovalenko and Anna Antonicheva. Olivia graduated from the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in 2018 with Honors in the Russian language. In September of 2018, she began her traineeship with Ballet Nacional de Catalunya under the artistic direction of Elias Garcia. She later became an apprentice with Ballet de Barcelona in 2019 under the artistic direction of Chase Johnsey. Olivia became a trainee with Orlando Ballet in 2020.
This is Olivia’s first season with OBII.