César Morales (dancer)


César Morales Anderson is a Chilean ballet dancer who, as of February 2014, is a principal dancer with the Birmingham Royal Ballet.

Biography

Born in Rancagua, Chile, César Morales began dancing at the age of eleven at the Ballet School of the Municipal Theatre of Santiago, where he trained for three years before being offered a scholarship by Ben Stevenson to train at the academy of Houston Ballet. He returned to Santiago at the age of fifteen to complete his training and Ivan Nagy offered him a contract to join the Ballet de Santiago. After a year in the Corps de Ballet, he was promoted to soloist and a year later to principal dancer immediately after his first performance of Swan Lake. Morales danced with the Ballet de Santiago until 2003, when he moved to Paris to work as a freelance guest artist, dancing in Paris, Slovenia and the Czech Republic. He went on to join the English National Ballet in 2004, was Principal Guest Artist with Vienna Staatsoper in 2006 and then joined the Birmingham Royal Ballet in 2008.

Repertoire

Ballet de Santiago

Swan Lake - Prince Siegfried Giselle - Albrecht and the Peasant The Sleeping Beauty - The Prince and Bluebird Last Four Songs Romeo and Juliet - Romeo and Mercutio The Taming of the Shrew - Lucencio La Bayadère - Solor and Bronze Idol The Nutcracker - The Prince La Fille Mal Gardée - Colas Coppélia - Franz Don Quixote - Basilio Manon - Des Grieux A Midsummer Night's Dream - Oberon and Divertimento Theme and Variations - Principal Role Serenade - Principal Role The Right of Spring - The Chosen One In the Night - Principal Role Études - Principal Role Le corsaire - Conrad La Sylphide - James.

English National Ballet

Swan Lake - Prince Siegfried The Sleeping Beauty - The Prince and Bluebird Giselle - Albrecht and the Peasant The Nutcracker - The Prince Études - Principal Role

Vienna Staatsoper

Swan Lake - Prince Siegfried The Sleeping Beauty - The Prince Coppélia - ''Franz''

Birmingham Royal Ballet

Raymonda,Sylvia,Romeo and Juliet - Romeo and Mercutio Serenade Still Life at the Penguin Café,Enigma Variations,Beauty and The Beast,The Nutcracker - ''The Prince''

Awards