GIOVANNI VILLALOBOS

Featured Roles Since Joining NYCB

George Balanchine
  • George Balanchine’s The NutcrackerTM  (Chinese Tea, Soldier, and Candy Cane)
  • Orpheus
  • Prodigal Son
Peter Martins
  • Fearful Symmetries
  • Romeo + Juliet (Tybalt)
  • The Sleeping Beauty (Jester)
  • Swan Lake (Neapolitan)
jerome robbins
  • Interplay
Richard Tanner
  • Episodes & Sarcasms

Originated a featured role in

  • Melissa Barak: Call Me Ben
  • Peter Martins: Ocean's Kingdom
  • Christopher Wheeldon: Rococo Variations

Originated a corps role in

  • Eliot Feld: A Stair Dance (NYCB Premiere)
  • Benjamin Millepied: Why am I not where you are and Two Hearts
  • Alexey Miroshnichenko: The Lady with The Little Dog
  • Jerome Robbins: N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz (NYCB Premiere)
  • Lynne Taylor-Corbett: The Seven Deadly Sins
  • Christopher Wheeldon: An American in Paris, Estancia, and Evenfall

Giovanni Villalobos was born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico.  He began stuyding ballet at age eight at Taller de Varones.  He attended summer courses at the School of American Ballet (SAB), the official school of New York City Ballet, in 2000 and 2001, and became a full time student that fall.  In June 2004 he became an apprentice with NYCB and joined the corps de ballet in July 2005.

honors

Mr. Villalobos was the recipient of the Mae L. Wien Award for Outstanding Promise in 2003.