Altea Nuñez

After completing her formative dance training at the Victor Ullate School in Madrid, Altea Nuñez graduated with distinction from the Conservatory of The Hague in Holland. 

Her professional dance career began with three years spent in the Victor Ullate company. In 2001 she joined the Royal Ballet of Flanders where she worked under artistic directors Robert Devers, Kathryn Bennetts and Assis Carreiro. As first soloist, Altea danced practically all the principal roles in the classical and neo-classical repertoire, working with top choreographers such as William Forsythe, Marcia Haydée, David Dawson, Jiří Kylián, Wayne McGregor and many others. 

Altea bid farewell to Ballet of Flanders in 2013 to concentrate on choreography, teaching and coaching. Her choreographic debut was greeted with the immediate success of ‘Contigo’, which established her as a rising talent and ‘one to watch’.
On her curriculum today shine more than 10 works created/ re-staged for Royal Ballet of Flanders, Compañía Nacional de Danza (Spain), Ballet de Santiago (Chile), Ballet X Schwerin, Palucca University of Dance Dresden, Royal Ballet School Antwerp & the professional Dance Conservatory of Barcelona.

Between 2017 & 2019 Altea formed part of the dance department of the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp, teaching ballet. 

In 2019 Altea was appointed Associate Artistic Director, ballet mistress and house-choreographer of Junior Ballet Antwerp for which she created/ re-staged ‘Summer’, ‘Claroscuro’, ‘Absolutio’, ‘YU’ and the fairytale story ballet  ‘Cinderella’, in which she portrayed the role of the evil stepmother.

In 2026, Altea creates ‘Horizon’, a brand new work tailored to the current group of JBA artists and re-stages ‘YU’ for the junior artists of the Paris Opera Ballet.

©Marc Lagrange