by Rachel Hellwig | Nov 5, 2020 | Career, Company Life
During his second year at Cincinnati Ballet, Taylor Carrasco learned he would be second-cast Mercutio in Romeo & Juliet. “I wasn’t yet a corps member, so it was especially exciting,” he remembers. In rehearsals, however, he began to feel...
by Claudia Bauer | May 6, 2020 | Profiles, Training
A few days after San Francisco Ballet went on coronavirus furlough in mid-March, soloist Diego Cruz led a sheltered-in-place company class on Zoom for 15 fellow SFB dancers. They enjoyed the class—and the camaraderie—so much that they did another one the...
by Hannah Chang Foster | Apr 2, 2019 | Career, Profiles
It started with a weekly tradition among friends. “We have Mondays off, so we would do P+P—paella and poker,” says San Francisco Ballet corps member Diego Cruz. After nearly ten years honing home-country recipes, Cruz and his co-founder, former SFB...