Angelica Generosa

Angelica Generosa | Principal Dancer

Angelica Generosa is from South River, New Jersey. She studied on scholarship at the School of American Ballet and Princeton Ballet, and she attended summer courses at the School of American Ballet, Chautauqua Summer Program, and New Jersey Ballet. She also studied with Gina Forcella in Sayreville, New Jersey. In 2011, Ms. Generosa joined Pacific Northwest Ballet as an apprentice. She was promoted to corps de ballet in 2012, soloist in 2016, and principal in 2020.

Ms. Generosa was the recipient of the Youth American Grand Prix Regional Hope Award in 2005, and she was a YAGP New York finalist in 2007. She also was the recipient of the School of American Ballet Mae Wien Award for Outstanding Promise.

Ms. Generosa has performed as a guest artist with the Vail International Dance Festival, American Academy of Ballet, and Ballet Hawaii. She has performed at the Chautauqua Dance Alumni Gala and Gala de ballet de Buenos Aires.

Leading Roles

George Balanchine
  • Agon
  • Coppélia (Waltz of the Golden Hours)
  • Emeralds
  • George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker® (Sugar Plum Fairy, Columbine, Hot Chocolate, Marzipan, Dewdrop)
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hermia, Butterfly)
  • Rubies
  • La Source
  • Symphony in C
  • Tarantella
  • Theme and Variations
Andrew Bartee
  • arms that work
Peter Boal
  • Giselle (Peasant pas de deux)
Donald Byrd
  • Love and Loss*
Alejandro Cerrudo
  • Little mortal jump
  • Memory Glow
  • One Thousand Pieces
  • Silent Ghost
Kyle Davis
  • A Dark and Lonely Space
David Dawson
  • Empire Noir
  • A Million Kisses to my Skin
Molissa Fenley
  • State of Darkness
William Forsythe
  • New Suite
  • The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude
Kiyon Gaines
  • Sum Stravinsky
Ronald Hynd
  • The Sleeping Beauty (Princess Aurora, Fairy of Joy, Gold and Silver pas de trois, Bluebird pas de deux)
Jiri Kylian
  • Forgotten Land
Jessica Lang
  • Her Door to the Sky
Jean-Christophe Maillot
  • Cendrillon (Sister)
Benjamin Millepied
  • 3 Movements
Matthew Neenan
  • Bacchus*
Annabelle Lopez Ochoa
  • Before After
Justin Peck
  • Debonair
  • Year of the Rabbit
Miles Pertl
  • Wash of Gray*
Crystal Pite
  • Emergence
Alexei Ratmansky
  • Concerto DSCH
  • Don Quixote (Juanita)
  • Pictures at an Exhibition
Jerome Robbins
  • The Concert
  • Dances at a Gathering
  • West Side Story Suite (Maria)
Eva Stone
  • F O I L
Kent Stowell
  • Carmina Burana
  • Cinderella (Cinderella, Spring)
  • Nutcracker (Flora)
  • Swan Lake (Pas de trois, Czardas, Neopolitan Dance)
Susan Stroman
  • TAKE FIVE…More or Less
Price Suddarth
  • Signature*
Twyla Tharp
  • Afternoon Ball
  • Brief Fling
  • Waiting at the Station*
Ezra Thomson
  • The Perpetual State

* Originated role