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Sebastián Villarini-Vélez

Sebastián Villarini-Vélez was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He trained with Rodney Rivera, Joaquin Banegas, and Maria Carrera, and also studied dance at the School for the Performing Arts in Puerto Rico with teachers including Yolanda Muñoz and Jose Rodriguez. In 2007, he attended the Miami City Ballet School summer course under the direction of NYCB alumnus Edward Villella in Miami, Florida and later the Pacific Northwest Ballet School summer program in 2011 under the direction of NYCB alumus Peter Boal in Seattle, Washington.

Mr. Villarini-Vélez began studying at the School of American Ballet (SAB), the official school of New York City Ballet, during the 2008 summer course, which he attended again during the summer of 2010 before enrolling as a student that fall.

In August 2012, Mr. Villarini-Vélez became an apprentice with NYCB and joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet in August 2013. 

He was promoted to soloist in October 2018.

GEORGE BALANCHINE

  • Agon
  • Bourrée Fantasque 
  • Divertimento No. 15
  • "Emeralds" from Jewels
  • The Four Temperaments
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream (Demetrius)
  • George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker® (Candy Cane, Cavalier, Soldier, Tea)
  • La Sonnambula (Pas de Deux)
  • Stars and Stripes 
  • Symphony in C 
  • Symphony in Three Movements
  • Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2
  • Union Jack
  • Vienna Waltzes

ROBERT BINET

  • The Blue of Distance

MERCE CUNNINGHAM

  • Summerspace

PETER MARTINS

  • Bal de Couture
  • Fearful Symmetries
  • Jeu de Cartes
  • Romeo + Juliet (Tybalt)
  • The Sleeping Beauty (Court Jester, Eloquence, Jesters)
  • Swan Lake (Benno, Spanish, Hungarian, Jester)

JUSTIN PECK

  • Copland Dance Episodes
  • New Blood
  • Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes
  • Rotunda
  • The Times Are Racing

ALEXEI RATMANSKY

  • Concerto DSCH
  • Russian Seasons

JEROME ROBBINS

  • Dances at a Gathering
  • Fancy Free
  • Fanfare (Clarinets)
  • The Goldberg Variations
  • Interplay
  • Piano Pieces

PETER WALKER

  • dance odyssey

CHRISTOPHER WHEELDON

  • DGV: Danse à Grande Vitesse
  • Polyphonia

Kyle Abraham

  • Love Letter (on shuffle)
  • The Runaway
  • When We Fell

Nicolas Blanc

  • Mothership

Silas Farley

  • Architects of Time

Keerati Jinakunwiphat

  • Fortuitous Ash

Andrea Miller

  • new song
  • sky to hold

JR

  • Les Bosquets

Justin Peck

  • Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes
  • Scherzo Fantastique

Gianna Reisen

  • Composer's Holiday

ANATOMY OF A DANCE

SEBASTIÁN VILLARINI-VELÉZ ON KYLE ABRAHAM’S LOVE LETTER (on shuffle)

Sebastián Villarini-Veléz explains how exploratory movements in this solo echo Kyle Abraham’s explorations of human connection in this feature on Abraham's Love Letter (on shuffle).

Anatomy of a Dance

Sebastián Villarini-Vélez on Jerome Robbins' FANCY FREE

Sebastián Villarini-Vélez steps into some iconic shoes taking on Fancy Free’s third sailor solo, requiring some debonair moves and a shake of the hips in a role originated and choreographed by Jerome Robbins himself.

HONORS

Mr. Villarini-Vélez was a recipient of the 2019 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award and the the 2014 Comité Noviembre ‘Orgullo Puertorriqueño’ Puerto Rican Heritage Award.

Portrait © Erin Baiano