Elly Green is from Illinois and has been dancing since she was a young child. She began her training with Judith Svalander and later studied at The School of Ballet Chicago, performing with The Ballet Chicago Studio Company. She was also a summer and year-round student at The Rock School and The School of American Ballet, both on full scholarship. Ms. Green was an apprentice with The New York City Ballet in 2000 and joined The Royal Danish Ballet as a corps de ballet member in 2001.

Ms. Green has danced a wide repertoire, including George Balanchine’s Serenade, Swan Lake, Stars and Stripes, Walpurgisnacht, and Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet. She has also performed August Bournonville’s Napoli, La Sylphide, and A Folk Tale; Jerome Robbins’ West Side Story Suite; John Neumeier’s Romeo and Juliet, The Little Mermaid,  and The Odyssey; Peter Martins’ Fearful Symmetries; and Helgi Tomasson’s Sleeping Beauty.

In addition to the Sugar Plum Fairy in their Nutcracker, Ms. Green has also performed major roles from the Balanchine repertory with Ballet Chicago, including Waltz Girl Serenade, the pas de deux from “The Man I Love”  in Who Cares? and Second Violin in Concerto Barocco.