Rubinald Rofino Pronk (born 17 July ), born and raised in The Hague, Netherlands, is a ''danseur'' performing with the
Morphoses/
The Wheeldon Company
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. He trained at the Royal (Dutch) Conservatory of Dance and joined the
Dutch National Ballet
The Dutch National Ballet (Dutch: Het Nationale Ballet) is the official and largest ballet company in the Netherlands.
History
The Dutch National Ballet was formed in 1961 when the Amsterdam Ballet and the Nederlands Ballet merged.
The company h ...
at age 16 and was promoted to soloist. Rubinald performed works by choreographers including
Sir Frederick Ashton
Sir Frederick William Mallandaine Ashton (17 September 190418 August 1988) was a British ballet dancer and choreographer. He also worked as a director and choreographer in opera, film and revue.
Determined to be a dancer despite the oppositi ...
,
George Balanchine
George Balanchine (;
Various sources:
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* born Georgiy Melitonovich Balanchivadze; ka, გიორგი მელიტონის ძე ბალანჩივაძე; January 22, 1904 (O. S. January 9) – April 30, 1983) was ...
,
William Forsythe,
Jacopo Godani,
Martha Graham
Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 – April 1, 1991) was an American modern dancer and choreographer. Her style, the Graham technique, reshaped American dance and is still taught worldwide.
Graham danced and taught for over seventy years. She ...
and
Krzysztof Pastor
Krzysztof Pastor (born 17 December 1956 in Gdańsk, Poland) is a Polish dancer, choreographer and ballet director. He was resident choreographer with the Dutch National Ballet in Amsterdam from 2003 to 2017, director of the Polish National Ballet ...
. In 2006 he joined
Dwight Rhoden and
Desmond Richardson's
Complexions Contemporary Ballet, performing works by Rhoden and
Ulysses Dove
Ulysses Dove (January 17, 1947 in Columbia, South Carolina – June 11, 1996 in Manhattan) was a choreographer.
Dove began his dance training at Boggs Academy in Georgia. Dove gave up his premedical studies at Howard University to transfer to ...
. He is a guest artist with
Dutch National Ballet
The Dutch National Ballet (Dutch: Het Nationale Ballet) is the official and largest ballet company in the Netherlands.
History
The Dutch National Ballet was formed in 1961 when the Amsterdam Ballet and the Nederlands Ballet merged.
The company h ...
and in 2009–2011 with
Polish National Ballet.
External links
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Facebook page
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1979 births
Living people
Dutch male ballet dancers
Morphoses dancers
Entertainers from The Hague