BIOGRAPHY
Ronaldo Navarro was born in Sao Paulo (Brazil), where he completed his ballet education in two different ballet schools (method: Royal Academy of Dance). There he danced in school performances, at various dance events and at competitions. He also worked as a freelance dance columnist for a newspaper.
Ronaldo has been living in Germany since 1993. His first engagement was at the Municipal Theatre of Bremerhaven, where he gained a lot of experience with contemporary dance and as a musical performer.
He then moved to Bremen, where he worked as a freelance dancer, also at the theatre of some cities (Lübeck, Bonn, Berlin). During that time, he took part in the opening performances of important events, such as Expo 2000 in Hanover and Capital of Culture 2003 in Graz (with choreography by Reinhild Hoffmann).
He also choreographed and danced his own solo works.
In 2001, Ronaldo received a permanent engagement with Johann Kresnik's Choreographic Theatre at the Volksbühne am Rosa Luxemburg Platz in Berlin, and from 2003 to 2006 at the Bonn Opera House.
In addition to Johann Kresnik and Reinhild Hoffmann, Ronaldo has worked with other renowned with other renowned personalities from the theatre world, such as Werner Schroetter and Konstanze Lauterbach.
Ronaldo has also produced several short films, which were presented in the city of Bonn in three video events.
In 2007, he moved to Düsseldorf and danced in several opera productions at the Opeer House (Deutsche Oper am Rhein). He also worked as a production assistant at the Opera House and at the Robert Schumann Academy of Music.
Since 2011, Ronaldo has been working as a classical ballet teacher in Düsseldorf (e.g. at the academy of the tanzhaus nrw) and also in several cities in the surroundings (Cologne, Solingen) and has continued to work as a guest production assistant at the Opera House.
In 2020, he was commissioned for the first time to create a choreography for a video production (Curtain - at Vimeo).
In 2022 Ronaldo was offered a contract as school director of a professional education dance school in Berlin (Dance Works), but he decided to continuing living in Düsseldorf.
He has written and published seven books in his native language until today. In July 2016, he published a book in Brazil about his experiences of dance ("Stages of a dance artist"). This book has been translated into German and English language and is available for purchase.
CURRICULUM VITAE
1967 Born in Sao Caetano do Sul, by Sao Paulo, Brazil.
1983 Beginning of dancing education (Classical Ballet).
1986 Sao Paulo Municipal School of Ballet. Certificate Royal Academy of Dancing (London) Elementary Examination with the result 'Highly Commended'.
1987-1992 Performances of the ballet school / Several dance festivals and competitions in Brazil. Begining to develop own choreographic works.Work as a dance columnist for a newspaper in Sao Paulo published in English "SUNDAY NEWS".
1993 Moving to Europe (Germany) in order to look for new horizons and new experiences.
1993-1996 Dancer at the Ballet Company of the Municipal Theatre of Bremerhaven
1996-2000 Performances in Bremen, Bremerhaven, Bonn, Lübeck and Berlin as a guest dancer. Besides, performances of own pieces (solos).
2000-2002 Solodancer at the Volksbühne in Berlin by the Choreographic Theatre Company of Johann Kresnik and Guest dancer at the Deutsches Theater Berlin.
2002-2003 Guest dancer at the event Cultural Capital of Europe Graz - Austria (Opera "Begehren").
2003-2006 Solodancer at the Opera House Bonn (Direction - Johann Kresnik)
2006-2008 First experiences with short movies and dance videos (direction, camera, editing). Art Photography.
2009-2017 Guest dancer in Düsseldorf - Opera House and Schauspielhaus. School fo Music Robert Schumann, as assistent of Direction. Yoga Course (2011) / Publishing of own Books (scroll down, see "WRITER") / Teacher (classical ballet) in Duisburg, Düsseldorf (tanzhaus nrw), Solingen, Wuppertal and Cologne - Cologne Dance Center.
2018 - today - Teacher (classical ballet) in Düsseldorf - Tanzhaus NRW Solingen and Cologne - Cologne Dance Center / Assistent of production at the Düsseldorf Opera Hause / Volunteer at the Clinic LVR Düsseldorf (2020 - 2021) / Choregrapher for video production
March/April 2024 - As an actor in the project „Queer Ancestors“ – Theatre: Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus
February 2025 - Solo-Dancer and actor in the production "Sterntaler" in the Concert Hall Tonhalle in Düsseldorf
REPERTORY on stage
DANCE-THEATRE / CHOREOGRAPHIC-THEATRE
• Municipal Theatre (Opera Hause) Bonn - 2003 / 2006 (Regie: Johann Kresnik)
- Ulrike Meinhof
- Hans-Christian Andersen (Role "The naked King")
- Hannelore Kohl
- Hundred Years of Solitude
- Goya
- Frida Kahlo (Role "Alejandro")
- Picasso
- A Dream of Waltz - Creation of Werner Schroetter
- The Olimpic Games 2036 (directed by Ruby Edelman) (Role "Yusuf")
- Satelit 8 (Role "Kafka")
• VOLKSBÜHNE - BERLIN - 2000 / 2002 (Regie: Johann Kresnik)
- Frida Kahlo (Role "Alejandro")
- Giselle (Directed by: Konstanze Lauterbach)
- Goya
- Garten der Lüste - BSE
- Picasso (Uraufführung)
• EXPO 2000 - The World Exhibition - HANNOVER
- Flambée Human Facets - At Expo-See (Megaproject open-air, in the water)
BALLET
• MUNICIPAL THEATRE BREMERHAVEN - 1993 / 1998 (Choreographer: Ricardo Fernando)
- Pulcinella / - The fire bird / - Don Quichote / - Coppelia ("Dr. Coppelius")
- Cinderella / - Carmen Suite ("Jose") / - Carmina Burana / - The Nutcracker (Solist "Spanischen Tanz")
DRAMA
. SCHAUSPIELHAUS DÜSSELDORF - 2024
- Queer Ancestors - a project about LGBTQ+ icons
(Directed by: Lasse Scheiba / Liz Sonnen)
• SCHAUSPIELHAUS DÜSSELDORF - 2009 / 2010
- The Castle (Das Schloss, after Kafka) - (Directed by: Alexander Müller-Elmau) (Role "Arthur")
• MUNICIPAL THEATRE BONN - 2004 / 2005
- Roberto Zucco - (Directed by: Johann Kresnik) (As a dancer and Solosinger)
- Remembering America - (Directed by A. Brunsbach) - (Main role "Rob")
• DEUTSCHES THEATER, BERLIN - 2001/2004
- Bloody Marriage - (Directed by: Konstanze Lauterbach) (Solodancer)
• MUNICIPAL THEATRE BREMEN - AM GOETHEPLATZ, BREMEN - 1999
- Faust I (as a dancer) (Directed by: Manfred Karge)
- Yerma (Solodancer) (Directed by: Konstanze Lauterbach)
• MUNICIPAL THEATRE BREMERHAVEN - 1998
- Bullets over Broadway (Gangster "Aldo") (Directed by: Holger Schultze)
- As soon as five years pass by - (Pantomime) (Directed by: Astrid Jacob)
MUSICAL
• MUNICIPAL THEATRE BONN - Shows at Bezirksregierung Düsseldorf - April 2006
- Summer Night Dream (Solosinger) (Directed by: Klaus Weise) Conductor: Michael Barfuss (with Philharmonie Essen Orchestra)
• MUNICIPAL THEATRE LÜBECK - 1999
- Anatevka (Solodancer "Russischen Tanz" and "Flaschentanz")
• MUNICIPAL THEATRE BREMEN (AM GOETHEPLATZ) - 1997 / 1999
- West Side Story - ("Shark boy" and "Chino") (Directed by: Rosamund Gilmore)
• MUNICIPAL THEATRE BREMERHAVEN - 1993 / 1998
- La Cage aux Folles - ("Cagelle Alexandra") (Directed by: Gerhard Platiel)
- Chicago (Regie: Gerhard Platiel)
- West Side Story ("Chino") (Directed by: Peter Grisebach)
- Kiss me, Kate ("Paul") (Directed by: Peter Grisebach)
- The Rocky Horror Show ("Ralph Rapshat" und Tänzer) (Directed by: Dirk Böhling)
OPERA
• OPERA HOUSE DÜSSELDORF (DEUTSCHE OPER AM RHEIN) - 2014
- Death in Venice - (Dancer) (Directed by: Immo Karaman - choreography: Fabian Posca)
• OPERA HOUSE DUSSELDORF (DEUTSCHE OPER AM RHEIN) - 2013
- A Florentine Tragedy - (Harlekin) (Directed by: Barbara Klimo)
• OPERA HOUSE DUSSELDORF (DEUTSCHE OPER AM RHEIN) - 2009
- Moses und Aron - (Dancer) (Directed by: Christoph Nel)
• HELMUT-LIST HALLE, GRAZ - 2003
- Begehren - Contemporary Opera from Beat Furrer. (Direction and Choreography by Reinhild Hoffmann) . World Opening - Cultura Capital of Europe
Further Performances - September 2003 - Ruhr-Triennale, Bochum - Germany
• MUNICIPAL THEATRE BREMEN (AM GOETHEPLATZ) - 1999 / 2001
- La Traviata - (Solodancer "Spanischen Tanz" and "Pierrot" (Pantomime) 3rd Act) (Directed by: Ernst-Theo Richter)
• OPERA HOUSE BONN - 1998 / 1999
- Idomeneo (Corps du Ballet) (Directed by: Christof Loy)
• MUNICIPAL THEATRE BREMERHAVEN - 1993 / 1998
- The clever little vixen - (solo dancer)
- Maske in Blue - ("José" - as Actor and as a dancer)
- Raskolnikoff - (Opera) (Pantomime)
- Die Fledermaus (The Bat) - ("Iwan" - Actor and dancer) (Regie: Wolfgang Dosch)
- The Bayadere (as "Dewa, the Prince's servant")
OWN PRODUCTIONS
• "VAGAS IMPRESSOES SOBRE A LOUCURA" - Sao Paulo, 1989
Music- E. Satie and R. Vimol
• "GENERALPROBE EINES KONZERTES" (Dress rehearsal of a concert)
Solo Dance-theatre- Juni 1995, at Municipal Theatre Bremerhaven "kleines Haus" Music - Rachmaninow and others Text: Nietzsche Make up: Katharina Rompf Performed by "Young Choreographers"
• Complete Version (1:15min) - February 1998 - Theater im Fischereihafen, Bremerhaven
• "DEMERSUM IN AETERNUM" - Solo (Music - Dead Can dance and Arvo Pärt)
February 1999 - Bremen, Municipal Theatre (Festival 10°. Bremer Tanzherbst)
• "EWIGZEIT (Eternaltime)"- Solo Dance-theatre (Music - Madredeus, Pink Floyd)
November 1999 - Bremen, Galerie des Westens. Next performances: January 2000 in Bremerhaven
• "TU ES" - (Work in Progress with Claudia Hanfgarn)
November 1999, Bremen, Galerie des Westens. Next performances: January 2000 in Bremerhaven
• "WENN DIESE STRAßE MEINE WÄRE..." ("If this street were mine...")
Dance-piece for three female dancers
March 2000 - Bremerhaven - Theater im Fischeireihafen and Bremen, Municipal Theatre (Festival Tanz Bremen 2000)
• "HAMM - MACH MICH FERTIG... ICH WILL MICH SCHLAFEN LEGEN..." (Solo)
("Make me ready.... I want to go to bed...")
March 2000 - Bremen, Municipal Theatre (Festival Tanz Bremen 2000)
Next performances March 2000, Berlin
• "GASPARD" (or "CONSUMATUM EST") - (Solo)
April 2002 - Berlin, Theatre Volksbühne
• "ETERNITY, LIBERTY, MOVEMENT" (for six dancers)
Music - Dead Can Dance, Villa Lobos, Z. Preisner
Text - Walt Whitman
May 2004 - Municipal Theatre of Bonn
ASSISTENT OF DIRECTION/PRODUCTION
• Opera House Düsseldorf (Deutsche Oper am Rhein) 2019 - 2020 - "Nils Karlsson Däumling"- Opera for childreen - Premiere January 2019- Direction: Anselm Dalferth
• School of Music (Musikhochschule) Robert Schumann, Düsseldorf - 2010/12/13
Opera “Le Nozze di Figaro”, “Gianni Schicchi” and “Le Comte Ory” - Direction: Sabine Hartmannshenn
“Cosi fan tute” - Direction: Gregor Horres
• Opera House Düsseldorf (Deutsche Oper am Rhein) - 2009-2011
Opera “Robin Hood” and “The Booted Cat”, Regie: Svenja Tiedt
• Assitent of Production - Schauspielhaus and Opera House Düsseldorf - 2009
“Das Schloss” (The Castle), Direction: Alexander Müller-Elmau
• Assistent of Choreography - Opera House Düsseldorf - 2009
Opera “Moses und Aron”, Direction: Christoph Nel
• Regiehospitanz (observer of the director) - Stadttheater Bremerhaven 1996/97
Opera ELEKTRA, Direction Peter Grisebach
Drama AS SOON AS FIVE YEARS GO BY, (Garcia Lorca), Direction: Astrid Jacob
Opera ALBERT HERRING, Direction: Wolfgang Lachnitt.
WRITER
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