Ryan
Cardea
Ryan Cardea is from New York, New York. He studied on scholarship at the School of American Ballet and Pacific Northwest Ballet School, and he attended summer courses at American Ballet Theatre, Chautauqua School of Dance, Miami City Ballet School, San Francisco Ballet School, and Pacific Northwest Ballet School, where he was a 2009 recipient of the Flemming Halby Exchange with the Royal Danish Ballet School. Mr. Cardea joined Pacific Northwest Ballet as an apprentice in 2009 and was promoted to corps de ballet in 2010.
Featured & Leading Roles
George Balanchine
Allegro Brillante
Coppélia
(Dr. Coppelius)
The Nutcracker
(Herr Drosselmeier, Soldier Doll, Tea, Candy Cane)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(Lysander)
Prodigal Son
(Friend)
Slaughter on Tenth Avenue
(Gangster)
Andrew Bartee
arms that wok
Peter Boal
Giselle
(Old Man)
Alejandro Cerrudo
One Thousand Pieces
Nacho Duato
Rassemblement
William Forsythe
New Suite
Ronald Hynd
The Sleeping Beauty
(Catalabutte, Puss in Boots)
Jiří Kylián
Forgotten Land
Sechs Tänze (Six Dances)
Jean-Christophe Maillot
Roméo et Juliette
(Acolyte)
Benjamin Millepied
3 Movements
Justin Peck
Debonair
Crystal Pite
Plot Pointe
The Seasons’ Canon
Alexei Ratmansky
Don Quixote
(Harlequin)
Jerome Robbins
The Concert
Kent Stowell
Cinderella
(Harlequin)
Nutcracker
(Herr Drosselmeier, Commedia)
Swan Lake
(Neapolitan Dance, Wolfgang)
Carmina Burana
Susan Stroman
TAKE FIVE…More or Less
Price Suddarth
Signature
Twyla Tharp
Afternoon Ball
Nine Sinatra Songs
Brief Fling
Sweet Fields
Waiting at the Station
Original Roles
Donald Byrd
Love and Loss
Marco Goecke
Place a Chill
Annabelle Lopez Ochoa
Khepri
Amanda Morgan
This Space Left Intentionally Blank
Mark Morris
Kammermusik No. 3
Noelani Pantastico
Picnic
Kiyon Ross
…throes on increasing wonder
Ezra Thomson
Salt of the Earth
Q&A with Corps Member Ryan Cardea
Do you have talents or passions outside of dance? I'm a big NY sports fan, which has not been easy over the past decade. Really hoping the Yankees can win their 28th World Series title while we at PNB celebrate our 50th anniversary. If the Yankees come up short again, go Mariners I guess…
Artistic Director’s Notebook: Coppélia
Artistic Director's Notebook: Coppélia In the spring of 1974, my parents took my sister and me to a performance of George Balanchine and Alexandra Danilova’s Coppélia at New York State Theater. It wasn’t my first ballet, but it was the one that prompted me to ask my [...]