Ricardo Rhodes

Birthplace

Boston, Massachusetts

Started Dancing

Age 8

Joined The Sarasota Ballet

2007, Promoted to Soloist in 2010

Favorite Roles

Les Rendezvous (male principal), Divertimento No. 15  (male principal), Prince Siegried (John Cranko's Swan Lake Act II Pas de Deux), There Where She Loves (Surabaya Johnny), Diana and Actaeon (Actaeon)

Favorite Productions

Romeo & Juliet, Onegin (John Cranko), Grosse Fuge (Hans Van Manen), The Second Detail (William Forsythe)

Roles I would like to dance

Romeo, Onegin

Repertoire

Lead and featured roles include:  Sir Frederick Ashton's The Two Pigeons, Facade, Les Patineurs, Les Rendezvous;  George Balanchine's Allegro Brillante, Donizetti Variations, Who Cares?;  David Bintley's Scottish Dances;  Andre Prokovsky's Vespri, Anna Karenina;  Robert North's Troy Games;  Dame Ninette de Valois' Checkmate, The Rake's Progress;  Renato Paroni's Rococo Variations;  John Cranko's Pineapple Poll;  The Nutcracker;  Galina Samsova's Paquita;  Marius Petipa's Swan Lake Act II Pas de Deux;  Dominic Walsh's The Trilogy;  Matthew Bourne's The Infernal Galop, Boutique;  Christopher Wheeldon's There Where She Loves, The American;  James Buckley's Anne Frank;  Yuri Possokov's Firebird;  Will Tuckett's Spielende Kinder;  Twyla Tharp's In The Upper Room;  Joe Layton's The Grand Tour;  Johan Kobborg's productions of August Bournonville's William Tell, Napoli;  Susan Stroman's Contact;  created a role in Honea's Percolator.