Thiago Soares
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Thiago Soares is a Principal dancer
of the Royal Ballet, London.
, Siegfried in Natalia Makarova
's Swan Lake
, Solor in Makarova's La Bayadère
, Romeo in Vladimir Vasiliev's
Romeo and Juliet, and Basilio in Don Quixote
.
He has trained with:
Yelê Bittencourt, Debora Bastos, Angelica Fiorani, Manoel Francisco and Dalal Achcar (BR), Slawa Muchamedov (RU), Johnathan Cope (UK), Liopa Araujo and Dino Carrera (CU).
In 2002 he briefly trained with the Kirov Ballet and danced Siegfried and Basilio with the Russian State Ballet.
Soares joined the Royal Ballet in 2002 as a First Artist and was promoted to Soloist in September 2003, First Soloist in September 2004 and finally, Principal in September 2006.
Since joining the company, he has danced the title role in John Cranko
's production of Eugene Onegin
, Siegfriend in Anthony Dowell
's Swan Lake, the Prince in Peter Wright
's The Nutcracker, the First Movement of Balanchine's
Four Temperaments, the Second Movement of Balanchine's Symphony in C
, Diamonds in Jewels and Balanchine's Tchaikovsky Pas de deux.
His Kenneth MacMillan
repertoire includes Tybalt and Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Rasputin in Anastasia, Lescaut in Manon, Elite Syncopations, Farewell Pas de deux from Winter Dreams
and Rudolf in Mayerling
.
His Frederick Ashton
repertoire includes the Thaïs Medatition Pas de deux, Orion in Sylvia
, Colas in La Fille mal gardée
, Birthday Offering Pas de deux and Awakening Pas de deux.
He has also danced Carabosse and Prince Desire in Makarova's Sleeping Beauty, Solor in Makarova's La Bayadére, the lead Pas de deux in William Forsyeth's In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated Franz in Ninette de Valois'
Coppélia
, Glen Tetley
's Voluntaries, Mark Morris'
Gong, Ivan Tsarevich in Fokine's
The Firebird, Prince Florimund in the Monica Mason
and Christopher Newton
production of The Sleeping Beauty and the Queen of Fire's Consort in Christopher Wheeldon's
Fire variation in Homage to the Queen.
He has also created roles in David Bintley
's Les Saisons and Will Tucket's The Seven Deadly Sins.
Television appearances include the "Thaïs Pax de deux" and Orion in "Sylvia," both in 2004.
In his professional life he performed with great international ballet artists like Svetlana Zaharova, Marianela Nuñez, Sylvie Guillem, Darcey Bussell, Tamara Rojo, Alina Cojucaru, Roberta Marquez, Cecilia Kerche, among others.
Nowadays his agenda includes performances as a guest artists in the USA, Japan, Korea, China, Argentina, Russia, and France.
. After four years together, the couple became engaged in December 2006 when Soares proposed to Núñez on stage after a curtain call for a performance of The Sleeping Beauty in front of the whole company. They married in Buenos Aires
in July 2011.
as Sylvia and Roberto Bolle
as Aminta. The performance was released on DVD.
Soares and Núñez performed the lead roles together in the 2009 filmed performance on Swan Lake, which is also available on DVD.
Principal dancer
A principal dancer is a dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company....
of the Royal Ballet, London.
Biography
Soares trained at the Centre for Dance, Rio de Janeiro before joining the Rio de Janeiro Municipal Theatre Ballet in 1998; his repertoire included the Prince in The NutcrackerThe Nutcracker
The Nutcracker is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto is adapted from E.T.A. Hoffmann's story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King". It was given its première at the Mariinsky Theatre in St...
, Siegfried in Natalia Makarova
Natalia Makarova
Nataliya Romanovna Makarova is the legendary Soviet-Russian-born prima ballerina. The History of Dance, published in 1981, notes that “Her performances set standards of artistry and aristocracy of dance which mark her as the finest ballerina of her generation.” She has also won awards as an...
's Swan Lake
Swan Lake
Swan Lake ballet, op. 20, by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, composed 1875–1876. The scenario, initially in four acts, was fashioned from Russian folk tales and tells the story of Odette, a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer's curse. The choreographer of the original production was Julius Reisinger...
, Solor in Makarova's La Bayadère
La Bayadère
La Bayadère is a ballet, originally staged in four acts and seven tableaux by French choreographer Marius Petipa to the music of Ludwig Minkus. La Bayadère was first performed by the Imperial Ballet at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia, on...
, Romeo in Vladimir Vasiliev's
Vladimir Vasiliev (ballet dancer)
Vladimir Viktorovich Vasiliev , a Russian ballet dancer, was principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet, and was best known for his role of Spartacus and his powerful leaps and turns.-Biography:Born in Moscow in 1940, the son of a truck driver, Vasiliev graduated from the Moscow Ballet School in 1958...
Romeo and Juliet, and Basilio in Don Quixote
Don Quixote (ballet)
Don Quixote is a ballet originally staged in four acts and eight scenes, based on an episode taken from the famous novel Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes. It was originally choreographed by Marius Petipa to the music of Ludwig Minkus and was first presented by the Ballet of the...
.
He has trained with:
Yelê Bittencourt, Debora Bastos, Angelica Fiorani, Manoel Francisco and Dalal Achcar (BR), Slawa Muchamedov (RU), Johnathan Cope (UK), Liopa Araujo and Dino Carrera (CU).
In 2002 he briefly trained with the Kirov Ballet and danced Siegfried and Basilio with the Russian State Ballet.
Soares joined the Royal Ballet in 2002 as a First Artist and was promoted to Soloist in September 2003, First Soloist in September 2004 and finally, Principal in September 2006.
Since joining the company, he has danced the title role in John Cranko
John Cranko
John Cyril Cranko was a choreographer with the Sadler's Wells Ballet and the Stuttgart Ballet....
's production of Eugene Onegin
Eugene Onegin (opera)
Eugene Onegin, Op. 24, is an opera in 3 acts , by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto was written by Konstantin Shilovsky and the composer and his brother Modest, and is based on the novel in verse by Alexander Pushkin....
, Siegfriend in Anthony Dowell
Anthony Dowell
Sir Anthony James Dowell, CBE is a retired English ballet dancer and former Artistic Director of the Royal Ballet. He studied at the Hampshire School and The Royal Ballet Schools, before joining the Royal Ballet in 1961...
's Swan Lake, the Prince in Peter Wright
Peter Wright
Peter Maurice Wright was an English scientist and former MI5 counterintelligence officer, noted for writing the controversial book Spycatcher, which became an international bestseller with sales of over two million copies...
's The Nutcracker, the First Movement of Balanchine's
George Balanchine
George Balanchine , born Giorgi Balanchivadze in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to a Georgian father and a Russian mother, was one of the 20th century's most famous choreographers, a developer of ballet in the United States, co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet...
Four Temperaments, the Second Movement of Balanchine's Symphony in C
Symphony in C
Symphony in C may refer to:* a number of symphonies written in the key of C major** symphonies referred to by their key exclusively:*** Symphony in C major - Richard Wagner's Symphony in C...
, Diamonds in Jewels and Balanchine's Tchaikovsky Pas de deux.
His Kenneth MacMillan
Kenneth MacMillan
Sir Kenneth MacMillan was a British ballet dancer and choreographer. He was artistic director of the Royal Ballet in London between 1970 and 1977.-Early years:...
repertoire includes Tybalt and Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Rasputin in Anastasia, Lescaut in Manon, Elite Syncopations, Farewell Pas de deux from Winter Dreams
Winter Dreams
"Winter Dreams" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald that first appeared in Metropolitan Magazine in December 1922, and was collected in All the Sad Young Men in 1926. It is considered one of Fitzgerald's finest stories and is frequently anthologized...
and Rudolf in Mayerling
Mayerling (ballet)
Mayerling is a ballet created in 1978 by Kenneth MacMillan for the Royal Ballet, London.- Synopsis :Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria is forced into a marriage of state with Princess Stéphanie of Belgium; Countess Marie Larisch von Moennich, the mistress of whom he is tiring, introduces him to the...
.
His Frederick Ashton
Frederick Ashton
Sir Frederick William Mallandaine Ashton OM, CH, CBE was a leading international dancer and choreographer. He is most noted as the founder choreographer of The Royal Ballet in London, but also worked as a director and choreographer of opera, film and theatre revues.-Early life:Ashton was born at...
repertoire includes the Thaïs Medatition Pas de deux, Orion in Sylvia
Sylvia
Sylvia may refer to:* A feminine given name of Latin origin, also spelled Silvia. The French form is Sylvie.* Sylvia, Kansas, a town in Kansas-Persons:*Saint Silvia*Queen Silvia of Sweden*Sylvia , American country singer born Sylvia Jane Kirby...
, Colas in La Fille mal gardée
La Fille Mal Gardée
La Fille mal gardée is a comic ballet presented in two acts, inspired by Pierre-Antoine Baudouin's 1789 painting, La réprimande/Une jeune fille querellée par sa mère...
, Birthday Offering Pas de deux and Awakening Pas de deux.
He has also danced Carabosse and Prince Desire in Makarova's Sleeping Beauty, Solor in Makarova's La Bayadére, the lead Pas de deux in William Forsyeth's In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated Franz in Ninette de Valois'
Ninette de Valois
Dame Ninette de Valois, OM, CH, DBE, FRAD, FISTD was an Irish-born British dancer, teacher, choreographer and director of classical ballet...
Coppélia
Coppélia
Coppélia is a sentimental comic ballet with original choreography by Arthur Saint-Léon to a ballet libretto by Saint-Léon and Charles Nuitter and music by Léo Delibes. It was based upon two macabre stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann, Der Sandmann , and Die Puppe...
, Glen Tetley
Glen Tetley
Glen Tetley was an American ballet and modern dancer as well as a choreographer who mixed ballet and modern dance to create a new way of looking at dance, and is best known for his piece Pierrot Lunaire.-Biography:Glenford Andrew Tetley, Jr. was born on February 3, 1926 in Cleveland, Ohio...
's Voluntaries, Mark Morris'
Mark Morris
Mark William Morris is an American dancer, choreographer and director whose work is acclaimed for its craftsmanship, ingenuity, humor, and at times eclectic musical accompaniments...
Gong, Ivan Tsarevich in Fokine's
Michel Fokine
Michel Fokine was a groundbreaking Russian choreographer and dancer.-Biography:...
The Firebird, Prince Florimund in the Monica Mason
Monica Mason
Dame Monica Mason DBE is a ballet dancer and has been the director of The Royal Ballet, since 2002.-Early life:Monica Margaret Mason was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1941...
and Christopher Newton
Christopher Newton
Christopher Newton is a Canadian director and actor and served as Artistic Director of the Shaw Festival from 1980-2002.Newton was born in England and educated at Sir Roger Manwood's School in Kent, the University of Leeds, Purdue University in Indiana and the University of Illinois, where he...
production of The Sleeping Beauty and the Queen of Fire's Consort in Christopher Wheeldon's
Christopher Wheeldon
Christopher Wheeldon is an international choreographer of contemporary ballet. Born in Somerset, England, to an engineer and a physical therapist, Wheeldon began training to be a ballet dancer at the age of 8. He attended the Royal Ballet School between the ages of 11 and 18...
Fire variation in Homage to the Queen.
He has also created roles in David Bintley
David Bintley
David Bintley, CBE, is a former English ballet dancer, the current artistic director of the Birmingham Royal Ballet and co-artistic director of the New National Theatre Tokyo ballet company.- About :...
's Les Saisons and Will Tucket's The Seven Deadly Sins.
Television appearances include the "Thaïs Pax de deux" and Orion in "Sylvia," both in 2004.
In his professional life he performed with great international ballet artists like Svetlana Zaharova, Marianela Nuñez, Sylvie Guillem, Darcey Bussell, Tamara Rojo, Alina Cojucaru, Roberta Marquez, Cecilia Kerche, among others.
Nowadays his agenda includes performances as a guest artists in the USA, Japan, Korea, China, Argentina, Russia, and France.
Awards
His awards include the Silver Medal at the Paris International Dance Competition in 1998, the Gold Medal at the Moscow International Ballet Competition in 2001, and the "Outstanding Classical Dancer" award at the Critic's Circle National Dance Awards in 2004.Personal life
After joining the Royal Ballet in 2002, Soares fell in love with fellow dancer and frequent partner Marianela NúñezMarianela Nunez
Marianela Núñez is an Argentine dancer. She is a principal dancer with the Royal Ballet, London.-Biography:Núñez was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina...
. After four years together, the couple became engaged in December 2006 when Soares proposed to Núñez on stage after a curtain call for a performance of The Sleeping Beauty in front of the whole company. They married in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
in July 2011.
On DVD
Soares performed Orion in the 2005 filmed performance of Sylvia, alongside Darcey BussellDarcey Bussell
Darcey Andrea Bussell CBE is a retired English ballerina. Trained at the Arts Educational School and the Royal Ballet School, she was later employed by the Royal Ballet, where she was promoted to the rank of Principal Dancer and would become recognised as one of the greatest English ballerinas of...
as Sylvia and Roberto Bolle
Roberto Bolle
Roberto Bolle is an Italian ballet dancer. He is currently a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre and also holds guest artist status with The Royal Ballet and La Scala Theatre Ballet, making regular appearances with both companies.- Overview :...
as Aminta. The performance was released on DVD.
Soares and Núñez performed the lead roles together in the 2009 filmed performance on Swan Lake, which is also available on DVD.