Anais Bueno

Biography

Anais Bueno joined The Joffrey Ballet in 2013. Originally from Córdoba, Mexico, she began her ballet 
training at the age of six at Fomento Artístico Cordobés. As a young dancer, she won silver and gold 
medals in two national ballet competitions and, in 2003, was awarded a scholarship at the Youth 
America Grand Prix to study at the John Cranko School in Stuttgart, Germany where she completed 
her formal training under the direction of Tadeusz Matacz.

In 2007, Bueno joined Stuttgart Ballet’s corps de ballet, performing in numerous John Cranko works, including Romeo and Juliet, Onegin, The Taming of the Shrew, and Swan Lake. During her time in Stuttgart, she danced her first solo role in Giselle’s Peasant Pas de Deux and worked with renowned choreographers such as John Neumeier, Marco Goecke, Christian Spuck, and Demis Volpi.

In 2012, she joined Boston Ballet for one season, performing the lead in Jiří Kylián’s Tar and Feathers 
and soloist roles in Frederick Ashton’s Sleeping Beauty.

Since joining The Joffrey Ballet, Bueno has performed numerous leading roles, including Waltz Girl 
in Balanchine’s Serenade; Marie and The Golden Statue in Christopher Wheeldon’s The Nutcracker; 
Alice and the Queen of Hearts in Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; Jane in Cathy 
Marston’s Jane Eyre; Cecilia in Marston’s Atonement; and Kitty, a role she originated, in Yuri 
Possokhov’s Anna Karenina. Her repertoire also includes featured roles in Stanton Welch’s La Bayadère; Robert Joffrey’s The Nutcracker; Wheeldon’s Continuum, Swan Lake, and Fool’s Paradise; Justin Peck’s In Creases and The Times Are Racing; Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s Mammatus; Liam Scarlett’s Vespertine, Frankenstein, and Hummingbird; Wayne McGregor’s Infra; John Neumeier’s The Little Mermaid; and the lead role in Alexander Ekman’s Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Bueno has performed internationally in countries including Canada, Cuba, Japan, Hungary, England,  China, Spain, Germany, France, and Korea. She has been featured in Pointe Magazine, Vogue 
México, and appeared on the cover of Dance Magazine Europe.