Ryan
Cardea
Ryan Cardea is from New York, New York. He studied on scholarship at the School of American Ballet and Pacific Northwest Ballet School, and he attended summer courses at American Ballet Theatre, Chautauqua School of Dance, Miami City Ballet School, San Francisco Ballet School, and Pacific Northwest Ballet School, where he was a 2009 recipient of the Flemming Halby Exchange with the Royal Danish Ballet School. Mr. Cardea joined Pacific Northwest Ballet as an apprentice in 2009 and was promoted to corps de ballet in 2010.
Leading Roles
George Balanchine
Coppélia (Dr. Coppelius)
George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker® (Herr Drosselmeier, Soldier Doll, Tea, Candy Cane)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lysander)
Prodigal Son (Friend)
Rubies (Pas de deux)
Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (Gangster)
arms that work
Giselle (Old Man)
Love and Loss*
Rassemblement
New Suite
One Flat Thing, reproduced
Place a Chill*
The Sleeping Beauty (Catalabutte, Puss in Boots)
Forgotten Land
Sechs Tänze (Six Dances)
Roméo et Juliette (Acolyte)
3 Movements
Kammermusik No. 3*
Picnic*
Debonair
Plot Point
Don Quixote (Harlequin)
The Concert
Cinderella (Harlequin)
Nutcracker (Herr Drosselmeier, Commedia)
Swan Lake (Neapolitan Dance)
TAKE FIVE…More or Less
The Intermission Project*
Signature
Afternoon Ball
Nine Sinatra Songs
The Perpetual State*
Salt of the Earth*
Q&A with Corps Member Ryan Cardea
Do you have talents or passions outside of dance? I'm a big NY sports fan, which has not been easy over the past decade. Really hoping the Yankees can win their 28th World Series title while we at PNB celebrate our 50th anniversary. If the Yankees come up short again, go Mariners I guess…
Artistic Director’s Notebook: Coppélia
Artistic Director's Notebook: Coppélia In the spring of 1974, my parents took my sister and me to a performance of George Balanchine and Alexandra Danilova’s Coppélia at New York State Theater. It wasn’t my first ballet, but it was the one that prompted me to ask my [...]
