Jadyn Arriola Bagayas
Dancer / Singer
Jadyn Arriola Bagayas is a Filipina dancer, singer, choreographer and creative from New Zealand. After training in New York with Ballet Academy East and dancing with Ballet Rhode Island, she moved to the United Kingdom and went on to dance with Ballet Cymru in Wales.
In New Zealand, Jadyn was a finalist for the Alana Haines Australasian Awards and Sir John Logan Campbell Ballet Awards, and was nominated for the National Young Performer of the Year Awards. She was part of the Royal New Zealand Ballet Mentor Programme and has danced with the company in The Nutcracker. Her training also includes New Zealand School of Dance, Bolshoi Ballet Academy, BalletX, National Dance Company Wales, Sydney Dance Company and Braunschweig Tanz.
Performance highlights include soloist roles in George Balanchine’s La Source and Serenade, alongside works by Marcus Jarrell Willis, Jennifer Archibald and Caili Quan.
Now freelancing across the arts, Jadyn is reconnecting with her love of music and theatre alongside developing her choreographic and filmmaking practice. Her work explores Filipino culture, identity and human connection through dance. Her artistic development has been supported by the Hilary Peacocke Dance Trust and Our Voice Network
For Mahogany Opera: Ecstasy of the Virtues
