Gabriella Padilla

Gabriella Padilla is a professional ballet dancer and choreographer based in Southern California. She graduated from the University of California, Irvine in the Spring of 2025 with B.F.A. degrees in Dance Performance and Choreography. She recently restaged her own contemporary ballet work for Los Angeles BalletFest, and has performed in various pieces for ChoCoLA. She was recently hired as a Live-Action Performance Artist for Laguna Beach’s Pageant of the Masters. Gabriella is currently a company member with Little Women Ballet Company. She is also a Resident Choreographer and Marketing Coordinator at NCBT. She most recently choreographed the company's original ballet, The Secret of the Old Clock, and is in the process of developing the next original work for the company.