Quick Facts

Born: Mexico City, Mexico
Trained: The National Ballet School of Mexico and Canada’s National Ballet School
Joined as Corps de Ballet: 2007

Five Things to Know

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2. Selene began her dance training in Mexico City before joining Canada’s National Ballet School with scholarships from Mexico’s National Council for Culture and the Arts.
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5. She performs the soloist roles of Bee in The Nutcracker, Second Fairy in The Sleeping Beauty, Hungarian Princess in Swan Lake, Blossom in Cinderella and Peasant in Giselle. 
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9. Her repertoire includes ballets such as Romeo and Juliet, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Onegin, The Winter’s Tale, Nijinsky, Manon, Serenade, The Four Seasons, The Four Temperaments, Genus, The Second Detail and Angels' Atlas, among others.
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12. Selene appears in Ben Shirinian’s commissioned film of The Dreamers Ever Leave You by Choreographic Associate Robert Binet, which debuted as part of the virtual season in 2021.
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15. In 2021, she received the Patron Award of Merit on behalf of the Patrons’ Council Committee of The National Ballet of Canada in recognition of her extraordinary effort throughout the 2020/21 virtual season.