Cecilia Iliesiu

Guest Faculty, Summer Intensive

Principal at Pacific Northwest Ballet

Cecilia Iliesiu is from New York, New York. She studied at the School of American Ballet and also with Francois Perron and Deborah Wingert at Studio Maestro. She attended summer courses at Boston Ballet School, Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Chautauqua Institute, San Francisco Ballet School, and William Forsythe’s ART of workshop under Kathryn Bennetts. Ms. Iliesiu joined Carolina Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet in 2009 and was promoted to soloist in 2014. She joined Pacific Northwest Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet in 2015. She was promoted to soloist in 2020 and principal in 2022. Ms. Iliesiu holds a bachelor’s degree in Communications and Media Studies from Fordham University.