David Motta Soares

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David Motta Soares
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Born (1997-03-13) 13 March 1997 (age 28)
Education Bolshoi Ballet Academy
Occupation ballet dancer
Years active2015 to present
Height183 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.

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Biography

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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David Motta Soares — 2018
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David Motta Soares — 2019

Roles

With the Bolshoi Theatre

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

With the Berlin State Opera

2022

2023

2024

As Guest Star

2022

Tours

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]

Filmography

Awards

References

  1. "Bolshoi Ballet". www.bolshoi.ru.
  2. "Ballet do TMRJ apresenta O Lago Dos Cisnes com participação especial de David Motta Soares". Dança em Pauta. Retrieved 15 May 2022.
  3. "Bolshoi Ballet returns to the Land of the Rising Sun". www.bolshoi.ru.
  4. "Shanghai and Beijing anticipating Bolshoi". www.bolshoi.ru.
  5. "Swan Lake goes to South Korea". www.bolshoi.ru.
  6. "Bolshoi Ballet in Brisbane, Six Years Later". www.bolshoi.ru. Retrieved 2019-06-30.
  7. "One more London Season of the Bolshoi Ballet!". www.bolshoi.ru. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
  8. "La Bayadère | Bolshoi Ballet 2018-2019 in cinemas". Pathé Live. Retrieved 2019-03-17.
  9. "International Yury Grigorovich Competition "Young Ballet of the World"". sochi-ibc.ru.
  10. "Nominees 2020".