Gustavo Carvalho

After training at the Brazilian Conservatory of Dance, Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian Gustavo Carvalho started dancing 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 Ballet Competition in China. Only one year after joining the National Ballet of Uruguay (Montevideo) in 2014, the artistic director Igor Yebra promoted him to become the company’s principal dancer. Over the last years he has danced a remarkable range of roles including: Basilio in ‘Don Quijote’ (Silvia Bazillis/Raúl Candal), Color in ‘La Bayadere’ (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 for his performance of Don José in Marcia Haydée’s ‘Carmen’ in 2017.
At the beginning of the 2020/21 season, Gustavo Carvalho became a member of the Ballett am Rhein company, where he has danced in Aszure Barton’s ‘Come In’, Twyla Tharp’s ‘Commentaries on the Floating World’ and the title role in Demis Volpi’s ‘The Nutcracker’. He has also appeared as Don José in Roland Petit’s ‘Carmen’.