Amanda Illuminati

Illuminati was born in Monterrey, Mexico, and trained at La Escuela Superior de Musica y Danza de Monterrey for eight years. During that time, she graduated from the English National Ballet Summer Intensive in 2019 and attended the Joffrey Academy of Dance's Ballet Summer Intensive in 2021 before joining as an Academy Ballet Trainee.

Illuminati trained for two years in the Joffrey Academy's Ballet Trainee program and one year in the Academy's Studio Company, where she performed world premieres as part of the Academy's Winning Works program, including The Return Studies II by Houston Thomas and Warmer by Kameron Saunders. She also performed various roles in productions, including Coppelia, La Bayadere, Napoli, Gerald Arpino's Kettentanz, as Kitri from Don Quixote, and in Christopher Wheeldon's The Nutcracker with Joffrey Company in 2022 and 2023.