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PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET
Soloists
Karel Cruz is from Havana, Cuba, and received his training at Cuba's Escuela Nacional de Artes. He joined Ballet Nacional de Cuba in 1996 and left in 1998 to join Ballet Clasico de Camara in Venezuela. From 1999 to 2000, he danced with Teatro Teresa Carreno, also in Venezuela. He joined Pacific Northwest Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet in 2002 and was promoted to Soloist in 2007.
Mr. Cruz has danced leading roles in George Balanchine's Agon, Emeralds, The Four Temperaments, La Valse, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Theseus, Cavalier), and Prodigal Son; Val Caniparoli's The Bridge; William Forsythe's Artifact II; Paul Gibson's Sense of Doubt; Ronald Hynd's The Merry Widow; Edwaard Liang's Für Alina; Stacy Lowenberg's Rushed Goodbye; Jean-Christophe Maillot's Roméo et Juliette (Friar Laurence); Toni Pimble's Two's Company; Jerome Robbins's In the Night; Kent Stowell's Carmina Burana, Firebird, Nutcracker (Prince), and The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet (Tybalt); Lynne Taylor-Corbett's Mercury; Richard Tanner's Ancient Airs and Dances; and Twyla Tharp's Nine Sinatra Songs and Waterbaby Bagatelles.
He has been featured in Balanchine's Ballet Imperial, Diamonds, La Sonnambula, Symphony in C, and Symphony in Three Movements; Nacho Duato's Rassemblement; Nicolo Fonte's Within/Without; Hynd's The Sleeping Beauty; Peter Martins' Fearful Symmetries; Stowell's Hail to the Conquering Hero, Silver Lining, and Swan Lake; and Paul Taylor's Roses.
Photo: Angela Sterling.
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