Sergio Marshall
Principal Dancer of the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro, having also performed with the Ballet of the Guaíra Theater (Curitiba), Ballet Stagium and Cisne Negro Dance Company (São Paulo) and Ballet of the Castro Alves Theater (Bahia); He danced principal and solo roles in major ballets such as "The Nutcracker", "Don Quixote", "Coppélia", "Le Corsaire", "Giselle", "The Sleeping Beauty", "Grand Pas Classique" and "La Fille Mal Gardée", in the version by Sir Frederick Ashton, being nominated for the Mambembe Award for his performance as Alain; His teachers included names such as Marina Fedossejeva (a direct student of Agrippina Vaganova), Walter Arias, Tatiana Leskova, Aldo Lotufo, Jane Blauth, Jorge Siqueira, and Carlos Trincheira. He also studied at the Ecole-Atelier Mudra Béjart Lausanne, the Zürcher Ballett School in Zurich, and the Joffrey Ballet in New York. He was trained by Sir Peter Wright (Royal Ballet of London), David Wall (Royal Ballet of London), Pierre Lacote (Opéra National de Paris), Elisabeth Platel (Opéra National de Paris), Jean-Yves Lormeau (Opéra National de Paris), Eugenia Feodorova (TMRJ), Marcia Haydée (Stuttgart Ballet), Richard Cragun (Stuttgart Ballet), and Oscar Araiz, among others. He toured Europe, the USA, Central America, and South America. He was a Ballet Teacher and Master for the following companies: Ballet of the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro, Ballet of the Trianon Theater – Campos/RJ, Deborah Colker Dance Company – RJ, Grupo Corpo – Belo Horizonte, Cisne Negro Dance Company SP, Ballet of the City of São Paulo – SP, Cie Gallindo – France; Artistic Director of the Ballet of the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro and the Ballet Corps of the City of Salto – São Paulo; Guest teacher at the São Paulo Dance Company – SP, Quasar Dance Company – GO, Ballet of the City of Niterói – RJ, Cisne Negro Dance Company, the Ballet Corps of the Trianon Theater and the School and Young Company of the Bolshoi Ballet of Brazil; Professor of Classical Ballet at the Joinville Dance Festival. Currently, he is a Professor, Coordinator, and Artistic Director of the CAROLINA COX DANCE CENTER in Teresópolis/Rio de Janeiro, and a Professor of Classical Ballet and Judge at various festivals in Brazil and abroad. He also joined the faculty of the Moscow Ballet Academy at the Centro del Conocimiento in Posadas/Argentina in 2016 as a Guest Master of Classical Ballet.
