Goyo Montero (Choreography)
Born in 1975 in Madrid, Spain. He was formed by Carmen Roche and completed his studies at the Royal Conservatory for Professional Dance in Madrid and the School of the National Ballet of Cuba.
Goyo Montero was Principal Dancer at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Soloist at the Oper Leipzig, Staatstheater Wiesbaden and the Royal Ballet of Flanders. He has been invited among others as guest soloist with the National Ballet of Mexico, the Perth City Ballet and the Ballet d‘Europe.
As choreographer he created pieces for Royal Ballet London, Zurich Ballet, Acosta Danza, Perm Opera Ballet / Diana Vishneva Context Festival, National Ballet Sodre, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Opera of Kiel, Ankara and Izmir State Ballet, the Company Gregor Seyffert, Ballet Carmen Roche, National Ballet of Cuba, and the Ballet de Teatres de la Generalitat Valenciana and others.
With season 2008/09 Goyo Montero is ballet director and principal choreographer of Nuremberg Ballet. Until today the ballet director has developed and staged 20 creations for his company in Nuremberg. Since 2019 Goyo Montero is also Resident Choreographer of Acosta Danza.
In 2018 the Deutscher Tanzpreis (German Dance Award) has been presented to Ballet Nuremberg under the directorship of Goyo Montero for outstanding development in dance. Dance Europe’s "Critics’ Choice" nominated Goyo Montero in the same year as Best Ballet Director.
In 2019 Goyo Montero received with his choreography Asunder a nomination as Best Choreography by the Russian Golden Mask Award.
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