{"id":56292,"date":"2023-04-05T15:08:40","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T15:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/?p=56292"},"modified":"2026-04-16T07:25:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:25:48","slug":"victor-caixeta-promoted-to-principal-dancer-of-dutch-national-ballet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/victor-caixeta-promoted-to-principal-dancer-of-dutch-national-ballet\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Caixeta promoted to principal dancer of Dutch National Ballet"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dutch National Ballet announce today, 5th April 2023 that last night, immediately after the performance of Swan Lake<\/em>, \u00a0Victor Caixeta was promoted to the rank of principal dancer. During this performance, Caixeta danced the role of Prince Siegfried at Dutch National Ballet for the first time.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Caixeta joined Dutch National Ballet as a soloist in March 2022, after the war in Ukraine made him decide that he could no longer stay at the Russian Mariinsky Ballet.
\n\u201cVictor is a hugely talented and charismatic dancer and we are thrilled to be welcoming him to Dutch National Ballet\u201d, said artistic director Ted Brandsen at the time.\u00a0Following Caixeta\u2019s promotion, he said: \u201cThis promotion to principal dancer proves what many have known for a long time: Victor is an amazing dancer with strong technique, great musicality and an irresistible appearance \u2013 a true star.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Victor Caixeta with Ted Brandsen, Ballet Director of the Dutch National Ballet \u00a9 Altin Kaftira<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u00a9 Dutch National Ballet, Altin Kaftira<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

BIO\u00a0Victor Caixeta<\/strong>
\nVictor Caixeta was born in Uberl\u00e2ndia, Brazil and trained as a dancer at the Staatliche Ballettschule Berlin, where he graduated in 2017. He joined the Mariinsky Ballet in St Petersburg that same year and was promoted to the rank of soloist in 2019.<\/p>\n

His roles with the Mariinsky Ballet include Goldon Idol in\u00a0La Bayad\u00e8re<\/em>, the Prince in\u00a0The Nutcracker<\/em>, Prince Desir\u00e9 (or Florimund) in\u00a0The Sleeping Beauty<\/em>\u00a0and Romeo in\u00a0Romeo and Juliet<\/em>. Besides dancing lead roles in full-length classical ballets, he has also performed solo roles in works by choreographers such as Hans van Manen, Wayne McGregor and\u00a0Twyla Tharp.<\/p>\n

Caixeta has several awards to his name, including the third prize at the thirteenth International Ballet Competition in Moscow (2017), the first prize in the category Classical Dance at the Tanzolymp in Berlin (2017) and the first prize at the European Ballet Grand Prix in Vienna (2017). He was also a finalist at the Youth America Grand Prix in both 2014 and 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Dutch National Ballet announce today, 5th April 2023 that last night, immediately after the performance of Swan Lake, \u00a0Victor Caixeta was promoted to the rank of principal dancer. During this performance, Caixeta danced the role of Prince Siegfried at Dutch National Ballet for the first time. Caixeta joined Dutch National Ballet as a soloist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":54348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsroom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56292"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56297,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56292\/revisions\/56297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}