Xiomara Reyes

Xiomara Reyes is a former principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre. Born in Cuba, Reyes trained at the Cuban National Ballet School.[1] After graduation, she danced as a soloist with "La Joven Guardia", an offshoot of Cuba's National Ballet. After two years, she was invited to perform with the Royal Ballet of Flanders in Belgium and danced with that company for seven years, rising to the rank of first soloist.

She has danced in Europe, Asia, and the United States, and has performed as a guest in France with the Jeune Ballet de France, in Italy with Balleto Del Sud, in Greece with the Nafsika Dance Theater, in Korea at the International Dance Festival, and in Russia with the Bashkirian State Ballet.

In 2001 Reyes joined the American Ballet Theatre[1] as a soloist. She was promoted to principal dancer in 2003. In 2015, Xiomara Reyes retired from American Ballet Theatre. Her final performance with ABT was Giselle at Metropolitan Opera on May 27, 2015.[2]

Roles

Her roles with the company include a leading role in Allegro Brillante, a Shade in La Bayadère, the first and fourth movements in Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1, Cinderella in Cinderella, Swanilda in Coppélia, Medora, Gulnare and an Odalisque in Le Corsaire, a leading role in Désir, Who Was She? in Dim Lustre, Kitri and Amour in Don Quixote, Sibyl in Dorian, Titania in The Dream, Anne in Christopher Wheeldon's VIII, Lise in La Fille mal gardée, the peasant pas de deux, Moyna and Giselle in Giselle, Le Grand Pas de Deux, His Memory and His Experiences in HereAfter, the Two of Diamonds in Jeu de Cartes, Prudence in Lady of the Camellias, Manon in Manon, Valencienne in The Merry Widow, Clara and the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker, the Debutante in Offenbach in the Underworld, Desdemona is Othello, Olga in Onegin, the Ballerina in Petrouchka, the Youngest Sister in Pillar of Fire, Raymonda in Raymonda, the Cowgirl in Rodeo, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (Romeo’s Farewell to Juliet), Princess Aurora and Princess Florine in The Sleeping Beauty, the Young Girl in Le Spectre de la Rose, the pas de trois and the Hungarian Princess in Swan Lake, the third movement in Symphony in C, the Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, and leading roles in Brief Fling, The Brahms-Haydn Variations, Clear, Études, Glow - Stop, The Leaves Are Fading, Overgrown Path, Petite Mort and Without Words.

She created leading roles in Seven Sonatas and Within You Without You: A Tribute to George Harrison.

Awards

Ballets performed

Partners

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References

  1. 1 2 Kourlas, Gia (24 May 2015). "Three American Ballet Theater Dancers Plan Their Last Steps". New York Times. New York City, United States. Retrieved 27 May 2015.
  2. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/29/arts/dance/review-paloma-herrera-and-xiomara-reyes-give-farewell-performances-of-giselle.html?_r=0
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