Adriana Harper
Born in Auckland, Adriana Harper grew up in small-town
Coromandel. She completed her professional training at New Zealand
School of Dance in 2004, graduating with the Todd Corporation
Scholarship. Adriana joined Royal New Zealand Ballet in 2005 and
has since danced the roles of Lucy Westenra in Dracula,
the short step sister in Cinderella, Kitri in Don
Quixote and featured roles in Esquisses,
Concerto and A Million Kisses to My Skin about
which US dance critic Allan Ulrich said her work showed "a
spiralling exuberance that, I suspect, won't be a Southern
Hemisphere secret much longer." In 2011's TOWER Tutus on
Tour, the NZ Herald said Adriana was in "stunning form" and
had found her true calling as the "wily and wayward Cat" in
Pinocchio. Adriana appeared as Bluebird in RNZB's 2011 Meridian
Season of The Sleeping Beauty.