Octavio Martin

Birthplace

Havana, Cuba

Started Dancing

Age 9

Previous Companies

National Ballet of Cuba

Joined The Sarasota Ballet

2005, promoted to principal in 2008

Favorite Roles

Albrecht in Giselle, Siegfried in Swan Lake,  The Rake in The Rake's Progress, The Teacher in The Lesson

Favorite Production

The Sleeping Beauty

Career Highlights

Carmen (Zuniga), Shakespeare (Shakespeare and his Mask), The Rake's Progress (The Rake), Pineapple Pole (Captain Belaye)

Would most love to dance with

Alessandra Ferri

Repertoire

Lead and featured roles include:  Sir Frederick Ashton's The Two Pigeons, Facade;  Sir Peter Wright's Giselle;  van Manen's Grosse Fuge;  Dame Ninette de Valois' The Rake's Progress;  Sir Kenneth MacMillan's Las Hermanas, Elite Syncopations;  John Cranko's Pineapple Poll;  Antony Tudor's Lilac Garden;  George Balanchine's Donizetti Variations, Allegro Brillante, Who Cares?;  Twyla Tharp's In The Upper Room;  Christopher Wheeldon's The American, There Where She Loves;  Joe Layton's The Grand Tour;  Flemming Flindt's The Lesson;  Peter Darrell's Othello;  Robert North's Troy Game;  David Bintley's Scottish Dances;  Maris Petipa's Le Corsaire;  Dominic Walsh's Wolfgang for Webb, The Trilogy;  Susan Stroman's Contact.  Choreographed his first professional ballet On The Outside, part of Embracing Our Differences, and Orpheus and Eurydice.