Buse Babadag

BUSE BABADAG

PROMOTED TO PRINCIPAL IN 2025
JOINED BSA IN 2021

Buse Babadag was born in Istanbul, Turkey. She started her training at Istanbul University State Conservatory with Christopher Paluch at age 11. After five years of intensive training with him, she got accepted to Ballett – Akademie der Hochschule fur Musik und Theater Munchen in Germany. She was trained with the Vaganova technique by the world-known former ballet stars in Munich. She got to perform at Heinz Bosl Stiftung Matinee with BayerischesStaatsBallet’s Junior Company. She graduated from Ballett – Akademie with a ‘Bachelor diploma of dance’.

She was chosen to perform Kirill Melnikov’s Cinderella pas de deux at Biennalle Dance Education 2014/Dresden Gala at Semperoper Dresden. Same year, she was invited to perform Romeo and Juliet Balcony Pas de Deux at the galas in Rome, Pisa, Toscana and Cairo.

In 2014, she moved to America and started working with Tulsa Ballet II. After performing a season with Tulsa Ballet, she got an offer as a company member with Dance Alive National Ballet in Florida. In 2018, she was offered to join Indianapolis Ballet that’s where she mostly danced Balanchine Ballets as Serenade, Rubies, Who Cares, Wals-Fantaisie, Four Temperaments, Raymonda Variations, and Allegro Brilliant.

After 3 seasons of performing with Indianapolis Ballet, she was offered a Soloist contract with Ballet San Antonio and moved to San Antonio to perform the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker as her debut with the company. Her repertoire with BSA included principal roles as Cinderella, the Sugar Plum Fairy and Kitri. She also performed featured roles such as Kitri’s friends in Patrik Armand’s Don Quixote, Snow queen, Arabian Couple in Easton and Haley Smith’s Nutcracker and Cheshire cat in Brian Enos’s Alice in Wonderland in 2023.

She was featured and had an interview in Pointe Magazine in July 2023 about her ballet career as well as her own coffee brand as a professional ballerina.

She performed in one of the legendary musical West Side Story as Jet girl’s Pauline character with San Antonio play house in May, 2024.

Her repertoire includes some of William Forsythe works, Balanchine and Bournoville.

In her 4th season with Ballet San Antonio, she got promoted to Principal Dancer by Artistic Director Sofiane Sylve.