Lucas Castro

Born: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Training: Centro de Dança Rio (Brazil), The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), City Dance Conservatory, American Ballet Theatre School, The Washington School of Ballet and The School at Jacob’s Pillow.

Professional experience: Dance Theatre of Harlem (second season), Utah Metropolitan Ballet (Principal Dancer), The Washington Ballet (Trainee), Cia de Ballet Dalal Achcar. Repertoire includes works by Robert Garland, George Balanchine, William Forsythe, Nacho Duato, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, Geoffrey Holder, Amy Seiwert, Claudia Schreier, Jennifer Archibald, Jacqueline Colledge, Heather Gray, Ariel Wright, Alan Hineline, Septime Webre, Xiomara Reyes, Mimmo Miccolis, YuanYuan Wang, Caroline Rocher, Robert J Priori, Stanislav Issaev, Lorraine Spiegler, Dalal Achcar, Eric Frederic, Diana Tomasetig, Marius Petipa, Angelica Fiorani, Flavia Burlini, Giuliana Catapan, Andrea Sales and Carla Martins.

Lucas is an ABT-certified teacher from Pre-primary to level 3 from the NTC curriculum.