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Viviana Durante is acknowledged by critics and audiences worldwide to be one of the great dramatic ballerinas of her generation. Born in Rome, she trained at the Royal Ballet School and joined the Royal Ballet in 1984, aged 17. Promoted to Principal Dancer at 21, she danced all the major roles in the classical repertory and created many roles, including in MacMillan’s Winter Dreams and The Judas Tree. In 1992 she was the subject of a South Bank Show together with her fellow principal Darcey Bussell. She left the company in 2000, joining American Ballet Theatre as a principal and La Scala Ballet, Milan and K-Ballet, Tokyo as a principal guest artist, while continuing to dance with other leading companies around the world. In 2016 Viviana returned to the Royal Ballet to coach Anastasia and The Nutcracker.

In 1989 Viviana became the youngest ever recipient of the London Evening Standard Award, and she has subsequently received many other international awards and honours. She has judged for the Prix de Lausanne, the Hong Kong Ballet Stars Award, ENB Emerging Dancer, and the Royal Ballet School Choreographic Awards. She teaches and coaches internationally and holds diplomas in dance teaching from the Royal Ballet School and Trinity College, London. She has choreographed at National Theatre Studio and Dance Base, Edinburgh. She is a development board member of Dance UK, an associate artist of Wilton’s Music Hall, and a patron of the Hammond School and New English Ballet Theatre.