Gabriel Figueredo

Principal Dancer

Gabriel Figueredo

Principal Dancer
On stage at
https://www.stuttgarter-ballett.de/ Stuttgarter Ballett Oberer Schloßgarten 6, 70173 Stuttgart

Swan Lake
Sun 20. Oct / 17:00
Opernhaus / Introduction at foyer 1st floor (in German) 16:15
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Gabriel Figueredo
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Vita

Gabriel Figueredo was born in Novo Hamburgo (Brazil) and grew up in Taquara and São Paulo. He began his ballet training at the school Andanças de Rita Candemil in Taquara before he went to Pavilhão D in São Paulo in 2010. In 2013 he won the Youth Grand Prix at the Youth America Grand Prix where he met Tadeusz Matacz, Director of the John Cranko Schule. Upon his invitation he continued his training at the John Cranko Schule in Stuttgart as of 2014 and graduated in 2019. Already as a student he was dancing with the Stuttgart Ballet. In 2017 Demis Volpi created the role of Tadzio in the opera-ballet-coproduction Death in Venice for him.

Gabriel Figueredo has already won numerous prestigious prizes. In 2018 he won the first prize in the Classical Dance Category at the Youth America Grand Prix in Barcelona as well as the Heinz-Bosl-Prize. In the following year he was awarded the prize as the best male dancer at the Prix de Lausanne 2019. He also won the Grand Prix and the Dance Europe Magazine Award at the Youth America Grand Prix 2019.

In the 2019/20 season Gabriel Figueredo became a member of Stuttgart Ballet’s Corps de ballet.He was promoted to Demi-Soloist at the beginning of the 2021/22 season. With the 2023/24 season he was promoted to Soloist. As of the 2024/25 season he is dancing as Principal Dancer with the Stuttgart Ballet.
Photo Roman Novitzky
Onegin
Ch: John Cranko
D: Gabirel Figueredo
Photo Stuttgarter Ballett
Swan Lake
Chr.: John Cranko
D: Gabriel Figueredo, Mizuki Amemiya
Photo Roman Novitzky / Stuttgarter Ballett
Sleeping Beauty
Ch: Marcia Haydée
D: Gabriel Figueredo, Mackenzie Brown
Photo Stuttgarter Ballett
Swan Lake
Chr.: John Cranko
D: Gabriel Figueredo
Photo Roman Novitzky / Stuttgarter Ballett
Onegin
Ch: John Cranko
D: Gabriel Figueredo
Photo Stuttgarter Ballett
Swan Lake
Chr.: John Cranko
D: Gabriel Figueredo, Mizuki Amemiya
Photo Roman Novitzky / Stuttgarter Ballett
Schöpfung
Ch: Uwe Scholz
D: Gabriel Figueredo
Photo Stuttgarter Ballett
Swan Lake
Chr.: John Cranko
D: Gabriel Figueredo
Photo Roman Novitzky / Stuttgarter Ballett
Sleeping Beauty
Ch: Marcia Haydée
D: Gabriel Figueredo
Photo Stuttgarter Ballett

Repertoire

Solo-Roles with the Stuttgart Ballet
  • Blake Works I (William Forsythe)
  • Die Schöpfung (Uwe Scholz): Solo
  • One of a Kind (Jiří Kylián)
  • Onegin (John Cranko): Lenski
  • Resonanz (Agnes Su)
  • Seventh Symphony (Uwe Scholz): Solo role
  • Solo from: The Creation (Uwe Scholz)
  • Source (Edward Clug)
  • Swan Lake (John Cranko): Prince Siegfried, Benno, Cavalier of the Princess of Spain
  • SYMPHONY NO. 2 "Under the Trees' Voices" (David Dawson)
  • The Lady of the Camellias (John Neumeier): Manon's admirer
  • The Sleeping Beauty (Marcia Haydée after Marius Petipa): Grand Pas de deux, Cavalier

Specially created Roles
  • Death in Venice (Demis Volpi): Tadzio
  • The Nutcracker (Edward Clug): mouse

Corps de ballet Roles with the Stuttgart Ballet
  • Aurora's Nap (Johan Inger)
  • Bolero (Maurice Béjart)
  • Hikarizatto (Itzik Galili)
  • Lulu. A Monstre Tragedy (Christian Spuck)
  • Mayerling (Kenneth MacMillan)
  • Onegin (John Cranko)
  • Requiem (Kenneth MacMillan)
  • Romeo and Juliet (John Cranko)
  • The Lady of the Camellias (John Neumeier)
  • The Sleeping Beauty (Marcia Haydée after Petipa)
  • The Taming of the Shrew (John Cranko)