David Motta Soares | |
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Born | |
Education | Bolshoi Ballet Academy |
Occupation | ballet dancer |
Years active | 2015 to present |
Height | 183 cm (6 ft 0 in) |
David Motta Soares (born March 13, 1997) is a Brazilian classical ballet dancer. He was a leading soloist with the Bolshoi Ballet. In May 2022 David became a Principal Dancer with the Berlin State Ballet.
Born in Cabo Frio, David Motta Soares began his dance studies at the Regina and Ofelia Corvello Ballet School in 2007. After the Youth America Grand Prix competition in New York, he was invited to attend the Annual Bolshoi Ballet Academy Summer Intensive in Middlebury, Connecticut in 2010. At the age of 12 he left Brazil for Moscow to enter the Bolshoi Ballet Academy. Whilst a student, he performed in Harlequinade, Nacho Duato's «L’amorosso», and danced the Grand Pas Classique (music by Daniel Auber, choreography by Victor Gzovsky). In 2014 David performed as Colas in La Fille mal gardée at the stage of the Bolshoi Theatre and participated in the academy's tour to Milan and Rome. At his graduation concert he danced the pas de deux from Don Quixote.
He graduated in 2015 and was accepted in the Bolshoi Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet. [1] Within two years, with Vladimir Nikonov as mentor, he was given the leading roles in the ballets Gisele, The Nutcracker, and Swan Lake as well as taking part in the Bolshoi contemporary productions.
David has participated in the Bolshoi Ballet tours to Europe, Asia, America and Australia.
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2017
Tour of the Bolshoi Ballet at the Biwako Hall Center for the Performing Arts, Otsu and Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Tokyo, Japan
2018
Tour of the Bolshoi Ballet at the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Beijing, China:
Tour of the Bolshoi Ballet at the Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea:
Tour of the Bolshoi Ballet at the Aspendos theatre, Turkey:
2019
Tour of the Bolshoi Ballet at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane, Australia: [6]
Tour of the Bolshoi Ballet at the Royal Opera House, London, UK: [7]