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Principal Soloist

Damian Zamorano

Hometown: Havana, Cuba

Damian Zamorano was born in Havana, Cuba. He started taking ballet classes at the age of nine at the Provincial School of Ballet “Alejo Carpentier”. He moved to Mexico City when he was 11 with his parents where he continued his training at the Escuela Nacional De Danza Clásica y Contemporánea. At 13 he participated in The First National Dance Competition “Attitude” in Mexico City where he won a gold medal in his category. At 15 he received a full scholarship to ABT’s Summer Intensive in Austin, Texas. At 17 he joined Compañia Nacional De Danza in Mexico City as an apprentice, promoted to corps de ballet member at 18 and promoted to coryphée at 19. That same year, Zamorano left the company to participate in a reality show of ballet for two months, where he got 2nd place and a scholarship from FONCA institution.

In 2012, he received a full scholarship to attend Miami City Ballet School and was awarded the Toby Lerner Ansin Scholarship Award in 2012. He joined Miami City Ballet 2013 as a corps de ballet member and then promoted to Prinicipal Soloist in 2023.

 

Zamorano was a Miami City Ballet School Alumnus and recipient of the Toby Lerner Ansin Scholarship Award.

Roles Since Joining MCB

George Balanchine
Allegro Brillante
Episodes

George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker® (Cavalier)
La Valse
Serenade
Slaughter on Tenth Avenue
Square Dance

John Cranko
Romeo and Juliet (Tybalt and Benvolio)

Alexei Ratmansky
Swan Lake
Symphonic Dances

Pontus Lidberg
Petrichor

Jerome Robbins
West Side Story Suite

Claudia Schreier
Places

Classical Repertoire
Don Quixote, Marius Petipa and Alexander Go