Alisa Pestova was born in Serov. In 2024, she graduated with honors from the Ural Choreographic College (class of Ekaterina Olegovna Yakovleva).
In 2024–2026, she has been a ballet dancer of the Yekaterinburg State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre.
In 2023, she participated in Choreography: Classical Dance (Ballet) Programme at the Educational Centre “Sirius”, and also took part in the Festival Maly Nureyevsky.
Since July 2025, Alisa Pestova has been an artist of the Ballet Company of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre.
