Venus Villa of Cuba is in her first season with The Washington Ballet. She began her training at the prestigious Cuban National Ballet and later attended the La Scala Ballet School where she performed Swanilda in Coppélia. At the age of seventeen, she won the Grand Prix at the Vignale Ballet Competition.

Villa has performed with the corps de ballet at the Royal Ballet in London and the Vienna Staatsoper Ballet where she performed many soloist roles in ballets including Coppélia, Alice in Wonderland, The Nutcracker, The Snow Queen, Sinfonietta Giocosa, Don Quixote Pas de Deux, Diana and Acteon, Romeo and Juliet, Etude and Le Corsaire Pas de Deux.

Villa was selected by the artistic director of English National Ballet as the “emerging dancer” of the company and was nominated by the English Press as “Young Spotlight of The Year” for the role of Alice in Alice in Wonderland. In 2014 she performed Luigi Martelletta’s Carmen, touring in Italy and also the Sugar Plum Fairy in the Cincinnati Ballet’s The Nutcracker.