Ricardo Graziano

Birthplace

Sao Paulo, Brazil

Started Dancing

Age 8

Previous Companies

Tulsa Ballet Theatre

Joined The Sarasota Ballet

2010, promoted to principal 2011

Favorite Roles

Rothbart (Swan Lake), Ugly Stepsister (Cinderella)

Favorite Production

Dracula (Ben Stevenson)

Career Highlights

Jiri Kylian's Petite Mort;  Duato's Remansos;  Twyla Tharp's In The Upper Room and  Nine Sinatra Songs

Roles I would like to dance

Romeo

Repertoire

With Tusla Ballet included Romeo and Juliet (Tybalt), Swan Lake (Rothbart), Cinderella (Stepsister), Sleeping Beauty (Jewels), Nutcracker and Carmina Burana.  He also performed ballets by the Kylian, Duato, Tharp, Taylor, Caniparoli, Wheeldon, Liang, Cong, Forsythe.

The Sarasota Ballet Repertoire

Lead and featured roles include:  George Balanchine's Prodigal Son, Divertimento No. 15;  Dame Ninette de Valois' The Rake's Progress;  Sir Frederick Ashton's Les Rendezvous;  Sir Kenneth MacMillan's Summer Pas de Deux;  Uri Possokhov's Firebird;  Jim Buckley's Anne Frank;  The Nutcracker;  Christopher Wheeldon's The American;  Twyla Tharp's In The Upper Room;  Johan Kobborg's productions of Antoine Bournonville's Kermess in Bruges, Napoli Pas Six;  Joe Layton's The Grand Tour;  Dominic Walsh's Time Out of Line, Claire de Lune;  Kate Honea's Percolator.