Adelya Gosmanova is from Rochester, New York, and grew up in Edmond where she began her ballet training at the Academy of Ballet and Theater Arts under Lisa Webb. She was accepted into several schools for summer study including the Kirov Academy of Ballet, Ballet West, Kansas City Ballet, and American Ballet Theatre. Under scholarship, she attended the Ellison Ballet Summer Intensive in Manhattan and was selected for their year-round pre-professional training program. She attended the Tulsa Ballet Intensive on full scholarship. In 2019, she attended the Ballet Heritage Summer Program in St. Petersburg, Russia, and attended the Quartz Mountain Summer Arts Institute for Dance. She was featured in the Edmond Outlook Magazine and Oklahoma News Channel KFOR.
She was chosen to perform with Tulsa Ballet's professional company to dance as Marie in The Nutcracker in 2014 and 2015. She was awarded third place in both the ballet and contemporary categories at the Youth America Grand Prix competition in the senior category at the age of 16 and was awarded top twelve in both categories at 15. Both years, she was invited to the New York City finals. She received various scholarships including Houston Ballet, Colorado Ballet, and Bolshoi Ballet there. The Edmond Sun and The Oklahoman published articles about her experiences. Tulsa Ballet selected her to perform a corps de ballet role as a “Dracula’s Bride” with the professional company in their Dracula production in October 2018.
She was a founding member of the new dance program initiated at her high school, performing solos and group dances in theatrical performances. Adelya enters her fourth year as an undergraduate at the University of Oklahoma. She majors in Chemical Biosciences and Psychology on the Pre-Medical track and minors in French. She takes ballet technique classes with the OU School of Dance and leads three OU organizations. Adelya loves seeing students of the Yvonne Chouteau School find happiness, love, and passion for dance and cultivating an environment that allows them to thrive artistically and technically.