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Corps de Ballet

Gabriela Gonzalez

Gabriela Gonzalez

Biography

  • SOCIAL MEDIA

    @gabri_go

  • BORN

    Mérida, Mexico

  • TRAINING

    Miami City Ballet School
    School of American Ballet (summer program)
    Centro Estatal de Bellas Artes, Mexico
    Encuentro Internacional de Ballet, Cuba (summer program)

  • SAN FRANCISCO BALLET

    Joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet in 2017

  • OTHER COMPANIES

    Tulsa Ballet
    Balletto del Sud (Italy)
    Miami City Ballet (apprentice)

Q&A

What inspired you to keep dancing during the COVID-19 lockdown?

To focus on the beauty and love within us, regardless of the mess that it was outside.

If you weren’t a dancer, what would your job be?

Psychologist or design.

What are some of your favorite roles or ballets you've danced while at SF Ballet?

Justin Peck’s Hurry Up We’re Dreaming, Liam Scarlet’s Die Toteninsel,Hummingbird, Dwight Roden’s The Promised Land, Helgi Tomasson’s Trio, Gitana Woman in Tomasson’s Don Q, Second Movement Demis in Balanchine’s Symphony in C, White Tutu in Lander’s Etudes.

What are you the most proud of?

The consistency of my work ethic, never missing a single performance yet, and never giving up.

What are you looking forward to in the 2023 Season?

Just more joyous dancing :)