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.
Featured & Leading Roles
George Balanchine
Agon
The Nutcracker
(Cavalier, Mouse King, Hot Chocolate, Mother Ginger)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(Demetrius, Theseus, Cavalier)
Peter Boal
Giselle
(Wilfride)
Alejandro Cerrudo
Little mortal jump
William Forsythe
New Suite
Ronald Hynd
The Sleeping Beauty
(Wolf)
Jiří Kylián
Petite Mort
Edwaard Liang
The Veil Between Worlds
Jerome Robbins
Dances at a Gathering
Ken Stowell
Carmina Burana
Swan Lake
(Pas de Trois, Czardas, Von Rothbart)
Twyla Tharp
Brief Fling
Sweet Fields
Waiting at the Station
Original Roles
Nia-Amina Minor
And yet here we are
Donald Byrd
Love and Loss
Kiyon Ross
…throes of increasing wonder
