Rolando Sarabia

Quick Facts

Full Name	Rolando Sarabia
Occupation	Ballet Dancer
Date Of Birth	Aug 18, 1982(1982-08-18)
Age	42
Birthplace	Havana
Country	Cuba
Horoscope	Leo

Rolando Sarabia Biography

Rolando Sarabia is one of the most popular and richest Ballet Dancer who was born on August 18, 1982 in Havana, Cuba. Sarabia was born in Havana, Cuba, on 18 August 1982. His father was a ballet dancer with the Cuban National Ballet. Rolando grew up, among ballet dancers and was performing with the Cuban National Ballet since the age of 5.

Hailed by The New York Times as the ‘Cuban Nijinsky’. Rolando defected from Cuba in 2005, a year after his brother Daniel Sarabia, also a former dancer with Cuban National Ballet, entered the United States via Mexico. Sarabia left Cuba, after Prima Ballerina Alicia Alonso refused to allow him to join the Boston Ballet where his younger brother Daniel Sarabia was dancing as a corps member.

Rolando Sarabia Net Worth

Rolando Sarabia is one of the richest Ballet Dancer from Cuba. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Rolando Sarabia 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Rolando Sarabia Oquendo (born 18 August 1982) is a Cuban-born American ballet dancer. He is an acclaimed Principal Dancer for The Washington Ballet under artistic director Julie Kent. He has danced with many companies including the Cuban National Ballet, the Houston Ballet, Miami City Ballet, and American Ballet Theatre as a guest artist in 2011. Erika Kinetz of The New York Times called him the “Cuban Nijinsky” and compared him to the young Mikhail Baryshnikov.

In 1990, he was admitted as a student at the Alejo Carpentier Elementary Ballet School in Havana, Cuba. Was trained by Rolando Sarabia (his father), Alicia Alonso, Lázaro Carreño and Magaly Suarez, at the National Ballet School in Havana. Early in his career, Sarabia’s explosive performance style garnered comparisons to Nijinsky and Baryshnikov. Sarabita was so famous among young people in Cuba, that according to Sarah Kaufman of The Washington Post his fans “glued him the suffix of endearment, -ita, onto his name like a kiss.”

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Facts & Trivia

Alice Ranked on the list of most popular Ballet Dancer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Cuba. Rolando Sarabia celebrates birthday on August 18 of every year.

Top Facts about Rolando Sarabia

1. Rolando Sarabia is a Cuban-born American ballet dancer.
2. He was born in 1982.
3. Sarabia trained at the National Ballet School of Cuba.
4. He joined the National Ballet of Cuba in 2000.
5. In 2005, he defected to the United States while on tour.
6. Sarabia has danced with numerous companies including Miami City Ballet and English National Ballet.
7. He won a gold medal at the International Ballet Competition in Jackson, Mississippi in 2010.
8. Sarabia retired from dancing in 2019 due to injury.
9. He now teaches and coaches young dancers around the world.
10. Sarabia is known for his powerful jumps and technical precision on stage.