Maria Riccetto

Maria Riccetto
Born	Montevideo, Uruguay
Nationality	Uruguayan
Field	Ballet
Training	Uruguay National Ballet School North Carolina School of the Arts

Maria Riccetto is an Uruguayan ballet dancer and a soloist with American Ballet Theatre (ABT).^[1]

Biography

Ms. Riccetto was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, and began studying ballet at the Uruguay National Ballet School in 1990. She was hired as a professional dancer in 1995 by the national ballet company, S.O.D.R.E, dancing pieces by Rodolfo Lastra, Ivan Tenorio, Jaime Pintos, and others. In 1998, Riccetto was named "Revelation of the Year" by Uruguayan dance critic Washington Roldan, and received the Elena Smirnova Prize from Enrique Honorio Destaville, an Argentine ballet reviewer. Later that year she attended the North Carolina School of the Arts on a full scholarship. There she performed in Grand Pas Romantique (choreographed and staged by Fernando Bujones) and Intermezzo (choreographed by Eliot Feld).

She also danced the roles of the Sugar Plum Fairy and the Snow Queen in The Nutcracker. In 1999, when the production was performed at the Hungarian National Academy, Ms. Riccetto was invited to Budapest to reprise her role as the Sugar Plum Fairy, dancing with Gabor Szigeti, a soloist with the Hungarian National Ballet. Riccetto was as a guest artist at the 25th Anniversary Gala for the Uruguay National Ballet School and was invited by that country's First Lady to dance in Montevideo and Punta Del Este. In August 1999, Riccetto joined American Ballet Theatre's corps de ballet and three years later she was promoted to soloist.^[1]

Riccetto was the "dance double" for Mila Kunis in the 2010 film Black Swan, a psychological thriller about ballet dancers in New York City.^[2]

Selected repertoire

American Ballet Theatre^[1]

the Girl in Afternoon of a Faun Calliope in Apollo first and third Shades in La Bayadère Petal in Cinderella Prayer in Coppélia Gulnare and an Odalisque in Le Corsaire Mercedes, Amour and a flower girl in Don Quixote Giselle, the peasant pas de deux and Zulma in Giselle the Two of Diamonds in Jeu de Cartes Valencienne in The Merry Widow

Clara in The Nutcracker Olga in Onegin Natalia in On the Dnieper the Street Dancer in Petrouchka Henrietta in Raymonda the Lilac Fairy, Fairy of Sincerity and Princess Florine in The Sleeping Beauty the Young Girl in Le Spectre de la Rose the pas de trois and the Italian Princess in Swan Lake the Mazurka and Prelude in Les Sylphides the Greedy One in Three Virgins and a Devil

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} "ABT biography for Maria Riccetto". American Ballet Theatre. http://www.abt.org/dancers/detail.asp?Dancer_ID=44. Retrieved 27 April 2010. 
2. ^ Fuhrer, Margaret (April/May 2010). "Ballet All Over: Big Names in Black Swan". Pointe Magazine (Macfadden Performing Arts Media). http://pointemagazine.com/issues/aprilmay-2010/call-board. 

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