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Born in Buenos Aires, Paloma Herrera began her ballet studies with Olga Ferri at age seven. As a young dancer, she was a first prize winner at several major competitions in South America, and, at the age of 11, studied at the Minsk Ballet School in Russia before returning to Buenos Aires to dance the role of Cupid in Don Quixote at the Teatro Colon.
Herrera was a Finalist at the Fourteenth International Ballet Competition in Varna, Bulgaria in 1990. After the competition, she was invited by Natalia Makarova to take class with the English National Ballet in London and by Hector Zaraspe to continue her studies at the School of American Ballet in New York. After just six months, Herrera was selected to dance the leading role in Raymonda at SAB's annual workshop performance. She joined American Ballet Theatre as a member of the corps de ballet in June of 1991, was promoted to Soloist in June of 1993, and to Principal Dancer in March of 1995.
Herrera's roles with the Company include Mathilda Kchessinska in Anastasia, Terpsichore and Polyhymnia in Apollo, Gamzatti and Nikiya in La Bayadère, the second movement in Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1,the title role in Ben Stevenson's Cinderella, Swanilda in Coppélia, Medora and Gulnare in Le Corsaire, the pas de deux Diana and Acteon, Kitri in Don Quixote, Katherine in Christopher Wheeldon’s VIII, the first girl in Fancy Free, Giselle in Giselle, His Memory and His Experiences in HereAfter, Hanna Glawari and Valencienne in The Merry Widow, Clara and the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker, the Paquita pas de deux, Cerrito in Pas des Déesses, the Siren in Prodigal Son, Raymonda in Raymonda, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, a Lover in Sin and Tonic, Princess Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty, Coupava in The Snow Maiden, Odette-Odile in Swan Lake, the Waltz in Les Sylphides, Sylvia in Sylvia, the first movement in Symphony in C, the Sylvia Pas de Deux, the Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux and leading roles in Allegro Brillante, Americans We, Ballet Imperial, Brief Fling, Clear, Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes, Études, Glow - Stop, The Howling Cat, In The Upper Room, Overgrown Path, Petite Mort, Sinfonietta, Stepping Stones, Symphonie Concertante, Theme and Variatons and workwithinwork.
Herrera created Olga in On the Dnieper and leading roles in The Brahms-Haydn Variations, Citizen, Cruel World, Disposition, From Here On Out, How Near Heaven,One of Three, Rabbit and Rogue, Turnstile and Without Words.
Ms. Herrera's performances with American Ballet Theatre are sponsored by Susan and Leonard Feinstein.
Romeo and Juliet
7/9/2010
La Bayadère
5/19/2010, 5/21/2010
Don Quixote
5/28/2010, 6/3/2010
Swan Lake
6/23/2010
The Sleeping Beauty
6/17/2010
Swan Lake
4/15/2010
Allegro Brillante
6/30/2010
On the Dnieper
6/9/2010, 6/11/2010
Romeo and Juliet
1/31/2010
The Brahms-Haydn Variations
1/26/2010
Awakening pas de deux
6/8/2010, 6/30/2010
The Brahms-Haydn Variations
6/9/2010, 6/12/2010, 7/3/2010
The Brahms-Haydn Variations
6/28/2010
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Kevin
McKenzie: Artistic Director