12 Facts About Patricia Delgado

Patricia Delgado joined the Miami City Ballet in 2000, was promoted to principal dancer in 2007 and left in 2017.

Patricia Delgado served as an associate producer in the 2020 Broadway revival of West Side Story and as associate choreographer of the 2021 film adaptation of the musical.

Patricia Delgado's mother is a psychologist whose family are immigrants from Cuba.

Patricia Delgado's father is a high school math teacher and basketball coach.

In 1998, when Patricia Delgado was fifteen, she was invited by Miami City Ballet director Edward Villella to tour with the company in Upstate New York.

Patricia Delgado attended the Coral Reef Senior High School, where she studied the International Baccalaureate program.

Patricia Delgado joined the corps de ballet after that, and was promoted to soloist in 2005 and principal dancer two years later.

Patricia Delgado's repertoire includes works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Twyla Tharp, and Paul Taylor, and she created roles for Justin Peck.

Patricia Delgado left the company in 2017, citing injuries and her plan to move to New York to join Peck, her then-boyfriend, as the reasons of her departure.

Patricia Delgado performed in Christopher Wheeldon's 2017 production of Brigadoon at the New York City Center, and with Peck in the music video for the indie rock band The National's "Dark Side of the Gym", which he directed and choreographed.

Patricia Delgado was later brought in as an associate producer for the 2020 Broadway revival of West Side Story, mainly to provide a Latino perspective on Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's choreography.

Patricia Delgado served as associate choreographer to Peck for the 2021 Steven Spielberg film adaptation of the musical.