{"id":19686,"date":"2024-07-11T15:48:29","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T15:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/?p=19686"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:16:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:16:19","slug":"rui-cruz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2024\/07\/11\/rui-cruz\/","title":{"rendered":"Rui Cruz"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Rui Cruz<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>Miami City Ballet (2011-present)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div><img class=\"artist-header__image alignleft\" srcset=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/miami-city-ballet\/image\/upload\/c_fill,g_auto,h_614,w_512\/f_auto\/q_auto\/v1717691395\/Rui-Cruz---C4?_a=BAAAROBs\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"327\" \/>Rui Cruz grew up in a small town in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He began his dance training at the age of thirteen at N\u00facleo de Dan\u00e7a- Ador\u2019art, and at fourteen he moved to the capitol of Rio de Janeiro, continuing his studies at Grupo Cultural de Dan\u00e7a-Ilha under the direction of Patr\u00edcia Marques. For five years he studied and participated in several national and international competitions. He won first place at the Festival de Danca de Joinville in 2019 the largest dance competition by number of dancers, as documented by Guinness World Records, he was also Top 12 at the Youth American Grand Prix Finals in 2020, 48th edition of Prix de Lausanne and the 49th edition of Prix de Lausanne, where he qualified as a finalist and received the Contemporary Dance Award by Minerva Kunststiftung.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Rui has been awarded numerous scholarships from top training facilities including Miami City Ballet School, Royal Winnipeg Ballet School, Boston Ballet School, Tulsa Ballet, Alvin Ailey, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Paris Marais Dance School and the Joffrey Ballet Studio Company.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>At 19, Rui was named company apprentice at Miami City Ballet. He was extended an offer to join MCB as corps de ballet member shortly thereafter in 2021.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In 2022 Cruz attended to Netherlands Dans Theater (NDT) Summer Intensive and also received the \u201cMerito Legislativo\u201d prize from Levy Gasparian\u2019s Town Hall.<\/div>\n<p><strong><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pw-EBjvBBiY?si=9-HkxY8CfHCciWQL\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamicityballet.org\/discover\/meet-our-dancers\/rui-cruz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rui Cruz, Miami City Ballet<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Video links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VRMJd7zPrtE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rui Cesar Cruz, 241 &#8211; Prix de Lausanne 2021 &#8211; Classical<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s8O9fRqvXtM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rui C\u00e9sar Cruz, 404 \u2013 Prix de Lausanne 2020 \u2013 Contemporary<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pw-EBjvBBiY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rui Cesar Cruz, 241 &#8211; Prix de Lausanne 2021 &#8211; Contemporary<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Social media:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Instagram <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ruii_cruz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ruii_cruz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rui Cruz Miami City Ballet (2011-present) Rui Cruz grew up in a small town in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He began his [&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-19686","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\/19686","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=19686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19687,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19686\/revisions\/19687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}