Principal Dancer
More Photos
Favorite Ballet
Either Giselle or Romeo and Juliet
Hometown
Madrid, Spain
When I’m not dancing…
I like to go snowboarding in the winter if I have time off. I love watching movies.
Born in Madrid, Spain, Sergio Torrado began his training at age seven at the Real Conservatorio Profesional de Danza in Madrid. At age 17, Mr. Torrado came to the United States to continue his training at the San Francisco Ballet School. In 1999, he joined San Francisco Ballet as a member of the Corps de Ballet, and in 2003 he was promoted to Soloist. Mr. Torrado joined Pennsylvania Ballet in January 2007 as a Soloist and was promoted to Principal for the 2007-2008 Season.
Since the beginning of his professional career, Mr. Torrado has danced lead roles in classic ballets both in Spain and in the United States, including Basilio in Don Quixote, Albretch in Giselle, and the pas de trios in Swan Lake. Torrado’s Balanchine works include Sanguinic in The Four Temperaments, Allegro Brillante, Ballo Della Regina, Serenade, Emeralds in Jewels, and the Prince and Snow King in The Nutcracker.
He has also performed in many ballets by contemporary choreographers like Peter Martins’s The Waltz Project, Hans Van Manen’s Grosse Fugue, and others by Helgi Tomasson, Christopher Wheeldon, Jerome Robbins, Yuri Possokhov and Mark Morris. Mr. Torrado has received several awards, including First Prize in the 1st International Competition of Zaragoza in Spain in 1997, Silver Medal at the 3rd International Competition of Havana, Cuba, and The Promising Young Dancer Award at the Dance Festival of Vignale, Italy. In June 2003, he performed the pas de deux from Giselle and the Grand Pas in Classic at “Gala for Stars from San Francisco.”