Leonardo Basilio
Since Portuguese Leonardo Basílio joined the Norwegian National Ballet in the autumn of 2020, he has danced Balanchine's Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux and in ballets such as Boyadjiev's The Nutcracker, Cranko's Onegin and Balanchine's Serenade.
He previously danced in the Vienna State Ballet, doing such roles as Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake, Drosselmeyer and the Nutcracker Prince in The Nutcracker and the role of Jean de Brienne in Raymonda, all choreographed by Nureyev, as well as the leading male role in Länder’s Études. He has also been a soloist in Legris’ Le Corsaire, de Bana’s Marie Antoinette and Bejart’s Arepo.
In 2013, Basílio won gold in the TanzOlymp international dance festival in Berlin and silver during the Youth America Grand Prix in New York. He began dancing at the age of nine and has studied in Faro, Lisbon and Zürich.
Performances
Selection of previous acts
- Badebuksen in MATS EK: She Was Black + A Sort Of
- Blomstervals par in The Nutckracker
- Blomstervals par in The Nutcracker
- Blomstervals par in The Nutcracker
- Cacti in Ekman / Haagenrud / Kylián
- Faun - Far in Faun/Boléro/Canvas
- Hilarion in Giselle
- Kortbuksen in MATS EK: She Was Black + A Sort Of
- Menn in MATS EK
- Menn in MATS EK …
- Prins 4 in Sleeping Beauty
- Solistpar menn in Balanchine: Jewels
- Sølvfe in Sleeping Beauty
- Stesøster 2 in Cinderella