Ariel Erez

Ariel Erez is a member of New York City Ballet’s corps de ballet. She was born in Tel Aviv, Israel and began her dance training at Tzahala Dance Academy at age 7 under the instruction of Lynore Blum. In 2018, she began training at Pacific Northwest Ballet School in Seattle, Washington under Abbie Siegel. In 2019, she attended the New York Junior Session at the School of American Ballet, the official school of NYCB. She attended the SAB summer course in 2021 before enrolling as a full-time student at SAB for the winter term that year. As a student at SAB, she performed a leading role in Christopher Wheeldon’s Scènes de Ballet. Erez became an apprentice with NYCB in August 2025 and joined the corps de ballet in August 2026.

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