{"id":19683,"date":"2024-07-11T15:57:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T15:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/?p=19683"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:16:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:16:19","slug":"oslaniel-castillo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2024\/07\/11\/oslaniel-castillo\/","title":{"rendered":"Oslaniel Castillo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-clpid=\"SGvGBwp-6DuKyZyqq0\">\n<h2><strong>Oslaniel Castillo<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>Nevada Ballet Theatre (2016-2020)<br \/>\nOklahoma City Ballet (2021-present): Corps de Ballet<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.okcballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/bb-plugin\/cache\/Oslaniel-Castillo-scaled-square.jpg\" alt=\"Oslaniel Castillo\" width=\"303\" height=\"303\" \/>Oslaniel Castillo, from Havana, Cuba, began his training at Nevada Ballet Theatre (NBT) where he studied under Monika Rostomian, Dodie Askegard, Clarice Rathers, James Canfield, and Roy Kaiser. Castillo joined NBT as a trainee for the 2016\/17 season and was promoted to apprentice in 2019. During his time there, he was fortunate to perform in many ballets including Ben Stevenson\u2019s\u00a0<em>Dracula<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Swan Lake<\/em>, and James Canfield\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Nutcracker<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Castillo attended the Oklahoma City Ballet Summer Intensive in 2021 and was offered an apprenticeship for the 2021\/22 and 2022\/23 seasons. He was then promoted to the corps de ballet for the 2023\/24 season and is thrilled to continue into his third season at Oklahoma City Ballet.<\/p>\n<p>With Oklahoma City Ballet, Castillo has performed in Jessica Lang\u2019s\u00a0<em>To Familiar Spaces in Dream<\/em>, Septime Webre\u2019s\u00a0<em>ALICE (in wonderland),<\/em>\u00a0and Twyla Tharp&#8217;s\u00a0<em>The Golden Section.\u00a0<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Castillo has also performed in a \u201cTribute to Michael Jackson\u201d at the Grand Theatre, in several collaborations with Cirque du Soleil, and as a guest artist for Microsoft. A few of his favorite roles include Russian in Robert Mills\u2019\u00a0<em>The Nutcracker<\/em>, Men in White in Septime Webre\u2019s\u00a0<em>ALICE (in wonderland),<\/em> and collaborations with Cirque Du Soleil.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-clpid=\"SGvGBwp-6DuKyZyqq0\">\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"sFlh5c pT0Scc iPVvYb\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/yukonprogressnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Yukon-Nutcracker6-1.jpg?resize=696%2C568&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"Yukon's 'Nutcracker' breaks audience record - Yukon Progress\" width=\"404\" height=\"330\" aria-hidden=\"false\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.okcballet.org\/company\/artists\/oslaniel-costillo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oslaniel Castillo, Oklahoma City Ballet<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>See also:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yukonprogressnews.com\/2022\/12\/30\/yukons-nutcracker-breaks-audience-record\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yukon\u2019s \u2018Nutcracker\u2019 breaks audience record, Yukon Progress News<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Social media:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Instagram <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ozzy_kidd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ozzy_kidd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oslaniel Castillo Nevada Ballet Theatre (2016-2020) Oklahoma City Ballet (2021-present): Corps de Ballet Oslaniel Castillo, from Havana, Cuba, began his training at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dancers"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19684,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19683\/revisions\/19684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}