Raised in Louisville, Kentucky, Eleanor (Ellie) Prince trained in the Louisville Ballet School from the earliest childhood programs all the way through the Pre-Professional Division, then performed as a Trainee with the company. She continued her training at Stanford University under Alex Ketley and Anton Pankevich and graduated with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, graduate studies in Robotics, and recognition for leadership in the arts and ballet. She is also a 2024 alumna of The School at Jacob’s Pillow, where she performed in world premieres by choreographers Annabelle Lopez Ochoa and Silas Farley.

She joined Louisville Ballet as a Company Artist in 2023, where her repertoire has included the Sugar Plum Fairy and Arabian Divertissement in Val Caniparoli’s The Brown-Forman Nutcracker, Third Shade in La Bayadère, Giselle, Raymonda, Romeo and Juliet, Cinderella, Napoli, Balanchine’s Rubies, and Adam Hougland’s Cold Virtues, as well as works by Stephen Mills, Andrea Schermoly, Lucas Jervies, and Ching-Ching Wong.