On The Rise: 18-Year-Old Leads Miami City Ballet

By the age of 10, Renan Cerdeiro knew what he wanted. ‘It was always my dream to be in a big and famous ballet company and dance nice parts,’ he says. He also knew he could not fulfill that dream at home in Rio de Janeiro.’We don’t have many ballet companies in Brazil. So I always told my parents I would go away and live in another country to dance. They would laugh at me.’ Eight years later, Cerdeiro might be the one laughing, if he weren’t so busy living his dream. At only 18, he is a soloist at Miami City Ballet, promoted from apprentice just last month, dancing solo roles in two of the three ballets on the program Friday through Sunday. In March, he plays the ardent male lead in the company’s premiere of Romeo and Juliet…