Patricia Delgado (born ) is an American

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and teacher. She joined the

Miami City Ballet Miami City Ballet is an American ballet company based in Miami Beach, Florida, led by artistic director Gonzalo Garcia. MCB was founded in 1985 by Toby Lerner Ansin, a Miami philanthropist. Ansin and the founding board hired Edward Villella ...

in 2000, was promoted to principal dancer in 2007 and left in 2017. Since then, she performs as a freelance dancer, stages works by her husband

Justin Peck Justin Peck (born September 8, 1987) is an American choreographer, director, and dancer associated with New York City Ballet, of which he was appointed Resident Choreographer in July 2014, being the second person in the history of the instituti ...

, and teaches ballet at

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part-time. She served as an associate producer in the 2020 Broadway revival of ''

West Side Story ''West Side Story'' is a Musical theatre, musical conceived by Jerome Robbins with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a Book (musical theatre), book by Arthur Laurents. Inspired by William Shakespeare's play ''Romeo an ...

'' and as associate choreographer of the 2021

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of the musical. She won the 2025

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alongside her husband Peck for choreographing the musical

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Early life and training

Delgado was born in

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. Her mother is a psychologist whose family are immigrants from Cuba. Her father is a high school math teacher and basketball coach. Her younger sister, Jeanette, would also become a principal dancer with the

. Delgado was raised in the suburb of

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. Delgado started ballet at age five and entered the Miami City Ballet School when she was eleven. Linda Villella, the director of the school, encouraged her to attend summer intensives in New York. In 1998, when Delgado was fifteen, she was invited by Miami City Ballet director

Edward Villella Edward Villella (born October 1, 1936) is an American ballet dancer and choreographer. He is frequently cited as America's most celebrated male dancer of ballet at the time. He has won numerous awards, including the Daytime Emmy Award for Out ...

to tour with the company in

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. She also attended the

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, where she studied the

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program.

Career

During the 2000-01 school year, Delgado's last year in high school, she became an apprentice with the Miami City Ballet. She joined the

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after that, and was promoted to soloist in 2005 and principal dancer two years later. Her repertoire includes works by

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Jerome Robbins Jerome Robbins (born Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz; October 11, 1918 – July 29, 1998) was an American dancer, choreographer, film director, theatre director and producer who worked in classical ballet, on stage, film, and television. Among his nu ...

Twyla Tharp Twyla Tharp (; born July 1, 1941) is an American dancer, choreographer, and author who lives and works in New York City. In 1965 she formed the company Twyla Tharp Dance, which merged with American Ballet Theatre in 1988. She regrouped the compa ...

, and Paul Taylor, and she also created roles for

. She left the company in 2017, citing injuries and her plan to move to New York to join Peck, her then-boyfriend, as the reasons of her departure. Her first job since leaving Miami City Ballet was to stage Peck's ''

In Creases ''In Creases'' is a ballet choreographed by Justin Peck, his first for the New York City Ballet, to Philip Glass' "Four Movements for Two Pianos". The ballet premiered on July 14, 2012, at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, during the company's ...

'' for the

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, and she subsequently also staged other ballets by Peck at various ballet companies. As a freelance dancer, she worked with Peck and

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. She also performed in

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's 2017 production of ''

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'' at the

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, and with Peck in the music video for the indie rock band The National's "

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", which he also directed and choreographed. The two have since performed "Dark Side of the Gym" with The National on ''

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'', and an expanded version onstage, which also features the song "

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". In 2019, she was invited by

Dance Division's director

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to teach ballet part-time, and she also participates in the mentor program. She was later brought in as an associate producer for the 2020 Broadway revival of ''

'', mainly to provide a Latino perspective on

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's choreography. She also served as associate choreographer to Peck for the 2021

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film adaptation of the musical. She received her first

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nomination and win in 2025 for Best Choreography for her work on

, alongside Peck, who was in this instance a co-choreographer with her.

Personal life

Delgado is married to choreographer

. They welcomed their daughter in March 2021.

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Delgado, Patricia Living people Entertainers from Miami American ballerinas Miami City Ballet dancers Juilliard School faculty Hispanic and Latino American dancers American entertainers of Cuban descent 21st-century American ballet dancers Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women Tony Award winners