Rosa Maria Pace, born in Palermo, Italy in 1997, trained at Le Tersicoree Ballet School in Palermo from 2008 to 2011, then at John Neumeier’s School of the Hamburg Ballet and the Ballett-Akademie der Hochschule für Musik und Theater München (Ballet Academy of the Munich Conservatory) from which she graduated in 2016. She began her career in the Czech Republic with the Junior Company Bohemia Ballet in 2016, then joined the South Bohemian Theater in 2017. Since 2020, she has been a soloist at Oper Graz in Austria. During her career, she has performed roles and solos by choreographers such as Maura Morales, Andonis Foniadakis, Marguerite Donlon, Beate Vollack, Anne Jung, Craig Davidson and Paul Julius. She has also won several international competitions, including the Thalia Prize for Best Female Performer in 2019. Rosa joined the Malandain Ballet Biarritz in August 2026.
