Dammiel
Cruz-Garrido
Dammiel Cruz-Garrido (he/him) is from Queens, New York. He studied on full scholarship at the School of American Ballet and Pacific Northwest Ballet School, and he attended summer courses at Pacific Northwest Ballet School and Boston Ballet. He was the recipient of the Mae. L. Wien Award and Danish American Nationals Cultural Exchange (DANCE) scholarship. He joined Pacific Northwest Ballet as an apprentice in 2016 and was promoted to corps de ballet later that year. He became a soloist in 2022.
Leading Roles
George Balanchine
Agon
George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker®
(Cavalier, Mouse King, Hot Chocolate, Mother Ginger)
(Demetrius, Theseus)
Donald Byrd
Alejandro Cerrudo
William Forsythe
Ronald Hynd
The Sleeping Beauty
(Wolf)
Jerome Robbins
Nia-Amina Minor’s
And yet here we are*