Soloist
Mantanzas, Cuba
Joined Boston Ballet in 2010
Adiarys Almeida of Matanzas, Cuba joined Boston Ballet as a soloist in 2010. Almeida’s professional training includes the Vocational Art School in Matanzas and the National Ballet School in Havana, Cuba. After graduating in 2001, she joined the National Ballet of Cuba for two years, under the direction of Alicia Alonso.
Almeida has also danced with Cincinnati Ballet for four years and, most recently, with Corella Ballet as a principal.
She has won the Gold and Silver Medals in the International Ballet Competition of Havana, Cuba, was the first Cuban female dancer to be a finalist at the USA International Ballet Competition, and has participated in both the International Dance Competition in Japan and the Gala of the Ballet Muses in Tokyo as a partner of Rolando Sarabia.
Some of her principal roles include Giselle in Giselle, Juliet in Victoria Morgan’s Romeo and Juliet, Kitri in Don Quixote, Medora in Le Corsaire, Aurora in Kirk Peterson’s Sleeping Beauty, Odette-Odile in Swan Lake, Clara, Snow Queen and the Sugar Plum Fairy in Val Caniparoli’s The Nutcracker, Carmen in Kirk Peterson’s Carmen, Lisa in Jose Pares La Fille Mal Gardee, Gamzatti in Natalia Makarova’s La Bayadere, Cinderella in Cinderella and many others.
She has also performed many ballets from important choreographers including George Balanchine's Tchaikovsky pas de deux, Liberty Bill in Stars and Stripes, Ballo de la Regina, Who Cares?, Arthur Saint-Leon’s La Vivandiere, Clark Tippet’s Bruch Violin Concerto, Coppelia, Satanella, and many other works by Stanton Welch, Twyla Tharp, Lynn Taylor Corbett, Jamal Story, Angel Corella, Val Caniparoli, Jerome Robbins, Victoria Morgan, Ivan Tenorio, Alberto Mendez, Viktor Kabaniaev, George Birkadze, and Christopher Wheeldon.
Almeida has been invited to perform as a principal guest artist with numerous national and international companies. She has been described by The New York Times as “[making] technical feats look like the purest and most honest ballet dancing.”
Read an interview with Adiarys.
Photo by Gene Schiavone.
