Born in Texas, US, Abigail Granlund trained at the Ballet Academy of Texas, American Ballet Theatre’s Summer Intensive and Texas Ballet Theater and American Ballet Theater’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School with full scholarships. She joined The Washington Ballet (TWB)’s Trainee programme in 2016 and became a Studio Company dancer before joining Hong Kong Ballet as a Corps de Ballet member in 2022.
With TWB, Granlund has performed in Julie Kent’s Swan Lake, Septime Webre’s The Nutcracker, Marius Petipa’s Giselle, Kent’s The Sleeping Beauty, John Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet, Michel Fokine’s Les Sylphides and Fredrick Ashton’s The Dream as well as George Balanchine’s Serenade and Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, Alexei Ratmansky’s Bolero, Paul Taylor’s Company B and Jessica Lang’s Beethoven Serenade, among others. In 2017, she represented TWB and danced for the D’Vine Affair at the Italian embassy.