Marcelo Gomes (Dancer)
Marcelo Gomes, a native of Brazil, began his dance studies at the
age of 5 at the Helena Lobato and Dalal Aschcar ballet schools
in Rio de Janeiro. Upon winning the Revelation Prize at the
Festival of Dance in Joinville in 1993, he traveled
to the United States to continue his training at The Harid
Conservatory in Boca Raton, Florida, as well as at the
schools of the Boston Ballet, Houston Ballet, and Cuballet, where
he studied under Alicia Alonso. Mr. Gomes was awarded second place
at the National Society of Arts and Letters in 1994, and was the
recipient of the Hope Prize at Lausanne in 1996, after which
he spent a year at the school of the Paris Opera Ballet.
Mr. Gomes joined American Ballet Theatre in 1997 as
a member of the Corps de Ballet, and rose quickly through the
ranks, being promoted to Soloist in 2000 and Principal Dancer
in 2002. He has performed in virtually every full-length
classical ballet in the company’s repertoire, including Romeo
in Romeo and Juliet, Albrecht in Giselle, Prince
Siegfried, Benno, and von Rothbart in Swan Lake, Solor
in La Bayadere, Prince Desire in Sleeping
Beauty, Franz in Coppelia, Espada and Basilio in Don
Quixote, Prince Charming in Cinderella, Onegin and Prince
Gremin in Onegin, Conrad, Ali the Slave, and Lankendem
in Le Corsaire, the Cavalier in The Nutcracker,
the Moor in Othello, Jeanne de Brienne and Abderakman
in Raymonda, Lescaut and Des Grieux in Manon, and Pyotr
in The Bright Stream. Mr. Gomes has performed leading roles
in the works of George Balanchine, Mikhail Fokine, Anthony Tudor, Sir
Kenneth MacMillan, Jerome Robbins, Sir Frederick Ashton, John Cranko, and Martha
Graham, and has worked with, as well as created roles for, Twyla
Tharp, William Forsythe, Paul Taylor, Mark Morris, Jiri Kylian, Lar Lubovitch,
James Kudelka, Nacho Duato, Jorma Elo, Benjamin Millepied, Christopher Wheeldon
and Alexei Ratmansky.
Mr. Gomes’ performances have been seen throughout
the world. In addition to his touring with American Ballet Theatre,
he has appeared at many international dance festivals, and has been
a guest artist with the Kirov Ballet, the Dutch National Ballet, the
National Ballet of Canada, the Houston Ballet, the Teatro Colon, the Teatro
Municipal Do Rio de Janeiro, the Universal Ballet, and the New York
City Ballet. He accompanied Alessandra Ferri on her farewell tour
in Japan and Italy in 2008, and was the recipient of the
prestigious Prix Benois de la Dance award in Moscow the same
year. Mr. Gomes has recently begun a successful choreographic career, and
has created pieces for dancers from American Ballet Theatre and
La Scala.
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