Clara Ruf Maldonado | Soloist2024-10-07T13:00:58-07:00
PNB Dancer Clara Ruf Maldonado

Clara
Ruf
Maldonado

Clara Ruf Maldonado (she/her) is from New York, New York. She studied on scholarship at the School of American Ballet, where she was a 2015 Mae L. Wien Award recipient, and Pacific Northwest Ballet School. She attended summer courses at Ballet Academy East, Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Chautauqua Institution, Houston Ballet Academy, Miami City Ballet School, and Pacific Northwest Ballet School. Clara was an apprentice with New York City Ballet before joining Pacific Northwest Ballet as an apprentice in 2018. She was promoted to corps de ballet later that year, and became a soloist in 2023.

Featured & Leading Roles

George Balanchine

Agon
Duo Concertant
A Midsummer Night’s Dream

(Butterfly)

The Nutcracker

(Sugar Plum Fairy, Columbine, Marzipan, Dewdrop)

Allegro Brillante

Peter Boal

Giselle

(Peasant pas de deux, Moyna)

Kyle Davis

A Dark and Lonely Space

Alexander Ekman

Cacti

William Forsythe

One Flat Thing, reproduced

Ronald Hynd

The Sleeping Beauty

(Fairy of Joy, Red Riding Hood)

Jiří Kylián

Petite Mort

Anabelle Lopez Ochoa

Khepri

Crystal Pite

The Seasons’ Canon
Plot Point

Penny Saunders

Wonderland

Kent Stowell

Cinderella

(Spring, Columbine)

Swan Lake

(Pas de Trois, Pas de Quatre, Neopolitan)

Carmina Burana

Price Suddarth

Signature

Twyla Tharp

Brief Fling
Sweet Fields
Waiting at the Station

Original Roles

Donald Byrd

Love and Loss

Jessica Lang

Let Me Mingle Tears With Thee

Annabelle Lopez Ochoa

Khepri

Vincent Michael Lopez

Op. 21

Robyn Mineko Williams

Before I Was

Amanda Morgan

This Space Left Intentionally Blank

Alexei Ratmansky

Wartime Elegy

Kiyon Ross

…throes of increasing wonder

Dani Rowe

The Window

(The Watcher)

Q&A with Corps Member Clara Ruf Maldonado

May 8th, 2023|Dancers|

Describe your perfect day off. I’m usually pretty exhausted from the week, so I tend not to go far from home on my rest days. I would consider a perfect off day to be a quiet night in cooking to some tunes over a glass of wine with fellow dancer Ryan Cardea while we get harassed by my beagle, Bob.

Celebrating our Latinx, Chicana, & Hispanic Dancers

October 14th, 2021|Dancers, Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, & Accessibility (I.D.E.A.), Life at PNB, Q&A with Dancers, Choreographers & Staff|

Celebrating our Latinx, Chicana, & Hispanic Dancers September 15 to October 15 is Latinx and Hispanic Heritage Month. To celebrate, we asked PNB artists identifying as Hispanic and Latinx share the many ways their heritage informs their artistry. Keep reading to hear from dancers Sarah-Gabrielle Ryan, Amanda [...]

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