Ricki Bertoni

Birthplace

England

Started Dancing

Age 9

Previous Companies

English National Ballet, K-Ballet (Japan)

Joined The Sarasota Ballet

2007, promoted to Coryphee in 2009

Favorite Roles

The Teacher in Flemming Flindt's The Lesson;  Hilarian in Sir Peter Wright's Giselle;  George Bernard Shaw in Joe Layton's The Grand Tour;  Stompers in Twyla Tharp's In The Upper Room

Favorite Productions

K-Ballet's Le Corsaire;  The Nutcracker;  The Sleeping Beauty;  Swan Lake;  Roland Petit's Carmen;  Le Jeune Homme et la Mort;  George Balanchine's The Prodigal Son

Career Highlights

Working with Roland Petit, Tetusaya Kumakawa, Hans van Manen, Vivi Flindt and Sir Anthony Dowell

Roles I would like to dance

Chicken dance in La fille mal Gardee, Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet

Repertoire

Includes:  Sir Frederick Ashton's The Two Pigeons, Facade, Les Rendezvous;  Flemming Flindt's The Lesson;  Robert North's Troy Games;  Dame Ninette de Valois' Checkmate, The Rake's Progress;  John Cranko's Pineapple Poll;  Sir Peter Wright's Giselle;  Dominic Walsh's I Napoletani, Wolfgang for Webb, The Trilogy;  Matthew Bourne's Boutique;  Christopher Wheeldon's There Where She Loves, The American;  Twyla Tharp's In The Upper Room;  Jamie Carter's Five Duets, A Deux Mains (which he also performed in London, in the presense of Sir Peter Wright and Dame Beryl Grey).