San Diego Ballet

Angela Ramirez

She started dancing at the age of five in “New ballet Studio” a small ballet school in Puebla, Mexico. She was a competition dancer since the age of fourteen. She and her group won a pass to the finals to the YAGP 2019 and 2021 on the category of “ensembles” in 2020 they could not go to the finals in New York due to COVID, but they won 1st place with that ensemble in the competition of VKIBC Mexico (Valentina Kozlova International Ballet Competition) but two years later (2022) they were able to go to the finals in Tampa, Florida. In 2022 She graduated from ballet in the method of “Imperial Society Teachers Of Dancing” after doing their exams for 10 years with the score of “Distinction” in the final exam Advanced 2. In the Graduation show, she got the chance to dance the pas de deux of Pas d’esclave from Le Corsaire with Maximiliano Díaz, member of the company of México “Compañía Nacional de Danza´´ In the summer of 2022 she went to the three week summer intensive of “Alberta Ballet School ” in Alberta,Canada. When she came back she went to the “Encuentro 540” and there she received a scholarship for the San Diego Ballet summer intensive 2023. Then she started training in “Calena, centro de danza y ballet” another ballet school in her hometown (Puebla, Mexico). In 2023 she went to the San Diego Ballet summer intensive, and was accepted to the company traineeship.

1. What ignited your passion for dance?

Since I was little, my favorite part of the day was when I had my ballet class and that feeling never disappeared.That feeling grew in me as I got older got the chance to follow and watch ballet videos of the most incredible ballerinas.

2. What inspired you to pursue a professional career in dance?

Watching the older girls at my studio when I was little was inspiring. Since I was 5 if you asked me “What do you want to be when you grow up?”  I always said, “A ballerina”.

3.   What is your favorite thing about being a dancer?

Dancing on stage and connecting to people in the crowd, getting them to feel something or even smile.

4.   What is your biggest dream for your dance career?

Getting the chance to grow as a dancer and advance professionally in San Diego Ballet.

5.   When you’re not pirouetting and perfecting your pliés, what brings you joy?

I think about compensating by being more expressive and listening to my body.

6.   What is the most transformative experience you’ve had as a dancer?

All the ballet competitions I went to were very transformative because you get the chance to take formative classes and meet dancers that are in the same place as you as dancers and that it’s very transformative.

7. What is your favorite ballet?

My favorite ballet is La Bayadére.

8.  What is your favorite role you have performed at San Diego Ballet and what is a role you would like to perform in the future?

This is my first season at the San Diego Ballet but I am grateful that i get the chance to perform as the Fairy of the Crystal Fountain in Sleeping Beauty.

9. What is your favorite local spot in San Diego?

I barely know San Diego but Liberty Station where San Diego Ballet is located. iI’s a nice spot to do a lot of fun stuff and it’s very beautiful.