About
Born in Greenwich, Connecticut, Paulina Waski began her ballet training at age 7. After attending the American Ballet Theatre Summer Intensive program in 2006, she was invited to join the ABT Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School. In 2008, Waski placed in the top twelve in the Youth American Grand Prix junior division. She was awarded the Laura and James Rosenwald Scholarship in 2010 and was the recipient of the 2010-2011 Scünci National Training Scholarship. In 2017 Waski was awarded the Margaret King Moore Dancer Award for outstanding woman in the corps de ballet.
Waski joined Boston Ballet as an artist of the company for the 2019-2022 seasons. During her time with Boston Ballet, she performed Myrtha in Giselle, George Balanchine’s Agon and Chaconne, William Forsythe’s Blake Works I, and Lia Cirio’s Chapter in Fragments. Waski created the pas de trois in Jorma Elo’s Ruth’s Dance and roles in Stephen Galloway’s DEVEL’S/eye and Melissa Toogood’s Butterflies Don’t Write Books, and roles in Mikko Nissinen’s Swan Lake. She performed Serge Lifar’s La Cigarette variation and the pas de cinq from Swan Lake for the virtual program The Art of Classical Ballet.
Waski rejoined American Ballet Theatre’s corps de ballet in June 2022. Her roles with ABT include the lead d’jampe and pas d’action in La Bayadère, an Odalisque in Le Corsaire, a Flower Girl in Don Quixote, Moyna in Giselle, the Spanish Dance and one of the Nutcracker’s Sisters in Alexei Ratmansky’s The Nutcracker, a Carnival Dancer in Othello, Rosaline in Romeo and Juliet, Candide (Sincerity) and the Sapphire Fairy in Ratmansky’s The Sleeping Beauty, the pas de trois, a big swan, Spanish and Hungarian Princesses in Swan Lake, and roles in Bach Partita, The Brahms-Haydn Variations, Her Notes, Jardin aux Lilas, Songs of Bukovina and Raymonda Divertissements. She created a featured role in AfterEffect.
Paulina is honored to be supported by David and Nancy Gavrin through the Dancer Fund at ABT.