José Martín

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José was born in Madrid, Spain. He trained at the Victor Ullate Ballet School, Madrid, the School of American Ballet and San Francisco Ballet School.  He was a Soloist with San Francisco Ballet, Zürich Ballet, English National Ballet and Boston Ballet.  He joined The Royal Ballet as a Soloist in September 2002.

His repertory includes principal roles in Bella della Regina, Rubies, Theme and Variations, Western Symphony, Etudes, Who Cares?, The Nutcracker, The Sleeping Beauty, La Sylphide, Le Corsaire Pas de deux, Don Quixote Pas de deux and the balcony Pas de deux from Romeo and Juliet. He has also danced leading roles in works by Bintley, Duato, Kudelka, Morris, Robbins, Welch and Van Manen.

Since joining The Royal Ballet his repertory has included Bluebird in Natalia Makarova’s The Sleeping Beauty, Head Fakir and Bronze Idol in La Bayadère, Mark Morris’s Gong, the Neopolitan dance in Swan Lake, Gurn in August Bournonville’s La Sylphide, Lead Couple in the Pas de six in Peter Wright’s production of Giselle. His MacMillan repertory includes Lescaut in Manon, Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, Lead Hungarian Officer in Mayerling, Danses concertantes and The Judas Tree. Other roles include Jiří Kylián’s Sinfonietta, L’Automne in David Bintley’s Les Saisons, the Jester in Frederick Ashton’s Cinderella, Lead Couple in Les Rendezvous, Bryaxis in Daphnis and Chloë, Alain in La Fille mal gardée, George Robinson Sinclair in Enigma Variations, the Lead Male in Rhapsody, Centre Couple in his Ondine, Puck in The Dream, the third Movement in Balanchine’s Symphony in C, Bluebird in the Monica Mason and Christopher Newton production of The Sleeping Beauty, the Pas de trois in Emeralds, the Blue Boy in Les Patineurs and Johan Kobborg’s production of Napoli Divertissements.

He has created roles in Alastair Marriott’s Being and Having Been (Linbury 2004) and the role of Motel Man in Will Tuckett’s The Seven Deadly Sins (2007).

His television appearances include Daphnis and Chloë in December 2004.

There are no future performances.