Abril Diaz discovered jazz music and dance at a very early age. She fell in love with classical dance at the age of 15, and went on to train at the Juana Lederer Studio in Buenos Aires, then at the Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón. She began her professional career at the age of 17 with the Ballet Estable del Teatro Colón, performing works such as Sylvia, Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty. She then decided to perfect her technique at the Dutch National Trainee Program in Amsterdam. A year later, she danced for the Ballet du Capitole in Toulouse. At the age of twenty, she joined the Lyon Opera Ballet.