Gustavo Carvalho

After training at the Brazilian Conservatory of Dance in Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian Gustavo Carvalho danced his first solo roles for the Brazilian Ballet Company at the age of 15. In 2010, he won three gold medals at the Joinville Dance Festival (Brazil) and the bronze medal at the 3rd Beijing International Dance Competition in China. Just one year after joining the ensemble of the National Ballet of Uruguay (Montevideo), he was appointed principal dancer by artistic director Julio Bocca. Over the past few years, he has danced a remarkable range of roles on stage: Basilio in “Don Quixote” (Silvia Bazillis/Raúl Candal), Color in “La Bayadère” (Natalia Makarova), Franz in “Coppélia” (Enrique Martinez), Albrecht in “Giselle” (Sara Nieto), Romeo in “Romeo and Juliet” (Kenneth Macmillan), Prince Siegfried in “Swan Lake” (Raúl Candal), Don José in ‘Carmen’ (Marcia Haydée), Onegin in “Onegin” (John Cranko), Désiré in Sleeping Beauty (Mario Galizzi), Des Grieux in Manon (Kenneth Macmillan) and many more. He was nominated for the Prix Benois de la Danse in 2017 for his portrayal of Don José in Marcia Haydée's Carmen.
Since the 2020/21 season, Gustavo Carvalho has been a member of the Ballett am Rhein company, where he has danced Don José in Roland Petit's Carmen, the second intruder in Jerome Robbins' The Cage, and in David Dawson's Empire Noir, among other roles. In 2022, he appeared as Basilio in “Don Quixote” as a guest with the Greek National Ballet and in 2024 danced the role of Prince Siegfried in “Swan Lake” at the Teatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro. In the same year, he was also nominated for the Performing Arts Promotion Prize of the State Capital Düsseldorf.