Entering its 37th season, Miami City Ballet (MCB), one in all North America’s most beloved dance corporations, has introduced 5 new dancers to its firm roster.
Joining MCB’s roster of world-class dancers for the 2022/23 Season is principal dancer Yuliia Moskalenko, who joins the corporate from the National Opera of Ukraine. And recent faces within the corps de ballet are Alexander Kaden, Brooks Landegger, Isadora Valero and Kaelah Poulos-Hopkins.
In addition, MCB School alumnus Durante Verzola will be part of the varsity as a school member and choreographer. Verzola has been choreographing for the varsity’s Choreographic Intensive since its inception in 2017. As a trainer and choreographer, college students on the faculty may have the chance to have unique works created for them. Durante can be a part of MCB’s 22/23 season, the place he’ll premiere a piece that celebrates his adopted house of Miami. This marks his third fee by MCB Artistic Director Lourdes Lopez.
Meet the brand new artists!
Yuliia Moskalenko, principal
Yuliia Moskalenko is a local of Kyiv, Ukraine, the place she was a principal dancer at Urkaine’s premiere ballet firm, Kyiv’s National Opera of Ukraine. As warfare broke out in Ukraine, Moskalenko sought assist to flee the warfare and to discover a new house to bop at. In June 2022, with the assistance of Artistic Director Lourdes Lopez and several other others, Moskalenkowas granted a United States Visa permitting her to work within the nation.
During her celebrated profession on the National Opera of Ukraine, Moskalenko carried out many main roles together with Odette/Odile in Swan Lake, Princess Aurora in Sleeping Beauty, the title roles in Cinderella and Giselle, Juliet in Radio and Juliet (set to the music of Radiohead), Aegina in Spartacus, in addition to The Nutcracker, Paquita, La Bayadère, Don Quixote and plenty of extra. Moskalenko has toured Japan, Canada, China, Germany, Russia, Estonia, Kazakhstan, France, and different nations.
Alexander Kaden, corps de ballet
Brazilian/German dancer Alexander Kaden is a graduate of the Vienna State Opera. Upon graduating in 2015, Kaden loved a formidable stint at Vienna State Ballet. His preliminary coaching started in Recife, Brazil, at Ballet Gonzalez.
At the Vienna State Ballet, he carried out many roles together with Vesna Orlić’s Peter Pan, Aladdin in Orlić’s One Thousand and One Nights and Mercutio in Davide Bombana’s Roméo et Juliette, plus a number of others. At Vienna State Opera, Kaden danced in Rudolf Nureyev’s Swan Lake and Don Quixote, Pierre Lacotte’s La Sylphide, and Elena Tschernischova’s Giselle. He has additionally appeared in quite a few musicals, operas and operettas. His awards embrace first place in 2010 on the Passo De Arte, Fortaleza and the Seminário Internacional de Dança de Brasília.
Brooks Landegger, corps de ballet
Brooks Landegger educated on the School of American Ballet and Boston Ballet School. He has carried out in quite a few productions at Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater and Metropolitan Opera House. At the age of 12, Landegger joined a touring manufacturing of the famed musical Billy Elliot, profitable awards for his portrayal of the title character. At 16, he moved to Boston to coach with longtime mentor Peter Stark and danced with Boston Ballet II, performing the lead function in George Balanchine’s Allegro Brillante. Landegger is a YoungArts Winner in Dance.
Isadora Valero, corps de ballet
Isadora Valero grew up in Caracas, Venuzuela. She started her dance coaching on the age of eight at Academia de Ballet Clásico Nina Novak. In Venezuela, she was invited to carry out as a soloist with Ballet Teresa Carreño. In 2006 and 2007, she was a finalist at The USA International Ballet Competition, Youth America Grand Prix and Korea International Ballet Competition.
In 2008, Valero was awarded a scholarship to the School of the Hamburg Ballet in Germany, and in 2010, she joined the Hamburg Ballet Company beneath the course of John Neumeier. In 2015, Valero turned a member of the National Ballet of Portugal and carried out principal roles in The Sleeping Beauty, George Balanchine’s Serenade, Fernando Durante’s La Bayadére and Swan Lake, The Rite of Spring by Vaslav Nijinsky, iTMOi by Akram Khan, Short Cut by Hans van Manen and Eric Volodine’s Don Quixote, amongst others. In 2021, throughout the pandemic, she launched into a contract profession to work internationally and construct social tasks overseas.
Kaelah Poulos-Hopkins, corps de ballet
Kaelah Poulos-Hopkins started dancing at age six at Philadelphia Studio Ballet in Ardmore, Pennsylvania. At age 11, she started coaching at Pennsylvania Ballet (now Philadelphia Ballet) beneath Arantxa Ochoa and later, Denis Gronostayskiy. At age 14, she obtained a trainee scholarship with the Pennsylvania Ballet. In her two years as a trainee, she had the chance to bop corps de ballet roles in Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet, Angel Corella’s Swan Lake and Giselle. Poulos-Hopkins spent summers coaching on scholarship at San Francisco Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet and Exploring Ballet with Suzanne Farrell.
In 2019, she obtained a full benefit scholarship to attend a summer season course on the School of American Ballet. Following that summer season, Poulos-Hopkins joined the Pre-Professional Division at Miami City Ballet School to once more examine beneath Arantxa Ochoa. As a pupil at MCB, Poulos-Hopkins had the chance to carry out corps de ballet roles in Alexei Ratmansky’s Swan Lake, in addition to George Balanchine’s Jewels.
MCB’s 22/23 season opens in October, with John Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet and runs by way of May 2023. Season highlights embrace the corporate premiere of Martha Graham’s Diversion of Angels, a Miami-flavored reimagined manufacturing of George Balanchine’s Square Dance, Jerome Robbins’ West Side Story Suite and Afternoon of a Faun, plus three world premiere commissions from numerous and noteworthy choreographers Amy Hall Garner, Pontus Lidberg and Durante Verzola.
For extra data on Miami City Ballet and the upcoming 2022/23 Season, go to www.miamicityballet.org.
