Vanessa Papiglioni is a main character appears in an Italian animated short series A danza con Vanessa. She's an eight-year-old girl, very awkward and clumsy, who has a dream to become a ballet dancer. Over the course of the series, she will learn this art under the guidance of her teacher, Fraulein Fiamma Messerschmitt. She has black hair tied back in a ponytail and rosy cheeks, wearing a blue leotard with a transparent ruffled tutu and ballet slippers. She is voiced by Lorenza Biella.