14 Facts About Jovani Furlan

Jovani Furlan joined the Miami City Ballet in 2012, and was promoted to principal dancer in 2017.

Jovani Furlan began ballet at age 11, at Bolshoi Theater School, after being urged by his grandmother.

Jovani Furlan trained at the school for a year, in the Balanchine technique, which he was unfamiliar with but enjoyed.

Jovani Furlan joined the Miami City Ballet in 2012, the year Lourdes Lopez succeeded Villella as artistic director.

Jovani Furlan was promoted to soloist in 2015 and principal dancer in 2017.

Jovani Furlan danced a rarely performed solo from Balanchine's Episodes that was originated by Taylor, after learning it from Peter Frame.

In 2019, Jovani Furlan joined the New York City Ballet as a soloist.

Jovani Furlan became one of the very few dancers of the company that had never attended the affiliated School of American Ballet.

Jovani Furlan made his company debut during the first week of the company's fall season, when he filled in for an injured dancer in Wheeldon's DGV: Danse a Grande Vitesse, in a role in which he was cast at the last minute, and partnering Megan Fairchild, with whom he had never rehearsed, after learning the role in his apartment with a suitcase in three days.

In February 2020, Jovani Furlan reprised his role in Episodes, and taught it to Michael Trusnovec, a former Paul Taylor Dance Company, who shared the role with him.

Jovani Furlan danced in Balanchine's Serenade, Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux, La Valse and Kammermusik No 2, Robbins' Dances at a Gathering, In G Major and Concertino, Peck's Everywhere We Go, Wheeldon's Polyphonia, Ratmansky's Russian Seasons, and as Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake.

In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Jovani Furlan had to return to Brazil due to a visa issue.

Jovani Furlan returned to New York in July 2021, after 14 months in Brazil, and resumed performing in September.

In 2022, Jovani Furlan was promoted to principal dancer, following several veteran dancers' retirements.