Roberto Almaguer

Artistic Director of Dance Peninsula Ballet

    Born in Cuba, Mr. Almaguer  graduated from the school of Ballet de Camaguey, where he began his professional dancing career under the direction of the Father of the Cuban Ballet, Fernando Alonso. Mr. Almaguer was hired as a Soloist with the National Ballet of Cuba in 1989 fallowing his two Gold Medals in 1988 in the International Ballet Competition in Peru.  While being a Soloist with BNC (Ballet Nacional de Cuba) under the direction of world-wide legendary Prima Ballerina Alicia Alonso, Mr. Almaguer toured extensively throughout Europe and Latin America, and performed as a Guest Principal Dancer in several International Ballet Companies.

 

Following his defection to the United States in 1993, Mr. Almaguer  has been a Guest Artist with several American Ballet Companies, including the Miami City Ballet and the Ballet Cubano  of Miami and has been a Principal Dancer in companies such as Cleveland San Jose Ballet, The Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, The State Street Ballet of Santa Barbara, etc. His guest artist work has taken him to a variety of companies in the Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Spain, Bulgaria, Russia, Germany, Peru,  Brazil, Mexico, UK , Italy and Canada. He has been featured in TV in many  of these countries and the USA.

 

In addition to his teaching and dancing curriculum, Mr. Almaguer has been a choreographer for the YAGP (Youth America Grand Prix) in which he was the winning Choreographer in the 2004 edition. Also, in 2002 and 2004, he was featured by the Los Angeles Opera Company as a principal dancer in  Placido Domingo's production of The Queen of Spades and La Traviata. These works awarded Mr. Almaguer with the invitation of the Teatro Real of Madrid and the L A Opera, to choreograph La Dama de Picas in Madrid, for a huge and successful production that united many world-renowned opera singers such as Placido Domingo, Tatiana Obratsowa and many others. Mr. Almaguer is a staff member of the Kaatsbaan International Ballet Center's Extreme Ballet, an intensive Ballet Program run yearly by the American Ballet Theatre Artistic Director Kevin Mackenzie, and former Prima Ballerina of ABT Martine Van Hamel. Mr. Almaguer has dance extensively just about all the Classic and Traditional Ballets  that the  dance public knows and has worked with many of the top name choreographers of the past century, and performed in TV and Theatre; he is also a Certified Massage Therapist, graduated from the Massage School of Pasadena, California. As a Ballet Master /Instructor, his teaching is well known in the US and other countries. He has  set Le Corsair  for the Ballet Clasico Alina Abreu in the Dominican Republic in June of 2010.

 Mr. Almaguer is currently the Artistic Director of Dance Peninsula Ballet, in California.

Formation:

      1975-1983: School of the Arts, Holguin, Camaguey, Cuba

Professional Career:

      1983-1988 Ballet de Camaguey, Cuba

      1988-1992 Teatro Lirico Rodrigo Pratts, Cuba

      1989-1992 Ballet Nacional de Cuba

      1989  Ballet Nacional de Bellas Artes, Dom. Republic

      1990  Ballet de Guanajuato, Mexico

      1990-1993  Ballet de Monterrey, Mexico

      1993  Ballet Hispanico de Miami (Miami Hispanic Ballet)

      1994-1996 Cleveland San Jose Ballet

      1996  The Joffrey Ballet of Chicago

      1997- 2002  Dance Corps/ Le Studio

      2001-2004 Los Angeles Opera

      2004  Teatro Real of Madrid, Spain

      2003-2004 State Street Ballet, Santa Barbara

      2002-2004 Los Angeles High School for the Performing Arts

      2004-2006 Arcadia Dance Institute, California

      2002- 2009 Inland Dance Academy

      2005-2009 KAATSBAAN International Dance Centre, NY

      2009  Maria Antonia Mass School of Dance, Mallorca, Spain

      2009-Present time: Dance Peninsula Ballet, California

 

Freelance Active career:

       Choreographer for the Gala of the Stars in Lecco, Italy 2003

       Cuballet, Cuba 1989

       Cuballet, Cuba 1990

       Cuballet , Mexico 1992

       Asociacion de Profesionales de la Danza, Madrid, Spain 2005,2006

Dance Curriculum as Principal Dancer:

       Swan Lake, Coppelia, Don Quixote, Giselle, Fille mal Gardee, Les Sylphides. La Sylphide, Le Corsair, The

       Nutcracker, Paquita,  La Byadere, Romeo and Juliet.

Traditional Reperetory:

       Balanchine's Who Cares, Tarantella, Allegro Brillante, Serenade

          Roland Petit's Carmen

       Agnes de Milles Rodeo

       George Lefebre's Beethoven 7th Symphony, Tango Episodes, and La Consagracion de la Primavera.

      Vicente Nebrada's Nuestros Valses

      Ann Marie D'Angelo's Paradise

       William Soleau's Tango, Seasons

       Jimmy Gamonet"s La Estancia

       Jiri Killian's Symphony in D

       Donald McKayle's  Games

       Hilda Rivero's El Reto, En tu mano va mi mano

       Gustavo Herrera's Dionaea, Danzon

       Alberto Mendez's Muñecos

       Dennis Nahat's Slavonic and Hungarian Dances, Blue Suede Shoes, Eclipse

       And many others from European and Latin American Choreographers

Other:

       La Traviatta, Opera

       Queen of Spades, Opera

       The Merry Widow, Opera

       Othello, Opera

       Aida, Opera

More information about Mr. Almaguer can be found in the Internet

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