Birthplace

Oiartzun, Spain (Basque Country)

Training

Royal Conservatory of Dance Mariemma, Madrid

Previous Company

Compañía Nacional de Danza, Madrid

English National Ballet

Joined 2016, promoted to Soloist 2017, First Soloist 2019, Principal 2022, Lead Principal 2023. Joint winner of Emerging Dancer 2017.

Repertoire

Roles and repertoire include John de Bryan in Tamara Rojo’s Raymonda; Albrecht in Akram Khan’s Giselle; Peasant pas de deux and Albrecht Mary Skeaping’s Giselle; Nephew/Prince and Nutcracker in Wayne Eagling’s Nutcracker; Siegfried in Derek Deane’s Swan Lake; Des Grieux in Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon; Prince Désiré in Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s The Sleeping Beauty; Paris in Rudolf Nureyev’s Romeo & Juliet; the title role in Akram Khan’s Creature; Don José in Johan Inger’s Carmen; one of the Four Fates and Prince Guillaume in Christopher Wheeldon’s Cinderella. 

One-act works include George Balanchine’s Theme and Variations; David Dawson’s Four Last Songs; William Forsythe’s Herman Schmerman (Quintet). Crystal Pite’s Body and Soul (Part 1); Kameron N. Saunders’s Proper Conduct; Mats Ek’s The Rite Spring. 

Created roles include Sugar Plum Cavalier in Aaron S. Watkin and Arielle Smith’s Nutcracker; William Forsythe’s Playlist (Track 1, 2); Stina Quagebeur’s Take Five Blues. 

At his previous company, also danced leading roles in Delibes Suite;Raymonda Variations and Don Quixote by José Martínez, and in other works by George Balanchine, William Forsythe, Ohad Naharin and Tony Fabre.