Dancers

Katita Waldo

Born: Madrid, Spain
Named Apprentice in 1987. Joined in 1988. Promoted to Soloist in 1990, to Principal Dancer in 1994.

Born in Madrid, Spain, Katita Waldo trained at Escuela de Danza Classica, North Carolina School of the Arts, Washington Ballet, and San Francisco Ballet School. After joining San Francisco Ballet in 1988, she was promoted to soloist in 1990 and to principal dancer in 1994. Waldo’s lead roles include Odette/Odile in Tomasson’s Swan Lake, Myrtha in Tomasson’s Giselle, Aurora in Tomasson’s The Sleeping Beauty, and Grand Pas de Deux Ballerina in Tomasson’s Nutcracker; Sylph in Bournonville’s La Sylphide; and Desdemona in Lubovitch’s Othello. She created roles in Lubovitch’s Elemental Brubeck, Tomasson’s Tuning Game and The Fifth Season, and Wheeldon’s Quaternary and Within the Golden Hour, among others. Waldo's repertory also includes Balanchine's Prodigal Son, Concerto Barocco, Apollo, Bugaku, and Theme and Variations; Forsythe’s Artifact Suite, The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude, and in the middle, somewhat elevated; Morris’ Maelstrom, Sandpaper Ballet, and Pacific; Possokhov’s Magrittomania, Damned, Study in Motion, and Reflections; Robbins’ The Cage, The Concert, West Side Story Suite, and Dances at a Gathering; Welch’s Tu Tu, Falling, and Naked; and Wheeldon’s Continuum, Polyphonia, and Rush. She received Isadora Duncan Dance Awards for best ensemble performance in 2001 and 2002. A frequent guest teacher and guest artist, she served as Yuri Possokhov’s ballet mistress/assistant in staging Magrittomania at the Bolshoi Ballet in 2004 and as choreographer’s assistant for Christopher Wheeldon's Misericors, which he created for the Bolshoi Ballet in 2007.

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