Patricia Delgado

First generation Cuban American. Born in Miami, Florida. She was a principal dancer with the Miami City Ballet where she worked for 20 years and is currently a freelance artist living in NYC and a member of the dance faculty at The Juilliard School. Patricia has performed works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Twyla Tharp, Paul Taylor, Anthony Tudor, Richard Alston, Christopher Wheeldon, Edward Villella and Trey McIntyre as well as classical works such as Coppelia, Giselle and Don Quixote. One of her most memorable roles is Juliet in John Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet. Patricia has also been incredibly fortunate to have created feature works with choreographers Alexei Ratmansky, Justin Peck, Liam Scarlett, Pam Tanowitz, Jamar Roberts, Lauren Lovette, John Heginbotham, Andrea Miller and Jodi Melnick among others. She has performed at The Bolshoi, in Moscow, at the Theatre du Chatelet, in Paris, France, at the Chicago Dancing Festival, at the Vail International Dance Festival, Fall for Dance at City Center, The Joyce Theater and at the Koch Theatre at Lincoln Center among others. Patricia has written several essays for dance publications. One entitled Why I Dance in January of 2015 for Dance Magazine and one for Dance Spirit Magazine in April of 2013. She performed as Maggie Anderson in the musical Brigadoon, directed and choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon at Encores! City Center, she starred in the music video The Dark Side of the Gym for The National and also appeared as a guest performer on The Tonight Show. She is a repetiteur for Justin Peck and has staged his works on Boston Ballet, Ballet Arizona, and for members of The American Ballet Theatre and The Juilliard School, and in Dresden, Germany at the Semperoper Ballett. She was an Associate Producer on the 2020 Broadway revival of West Side Story and Associate Choreographer on the feature film West Side Story, directed by Steven Spielberg. She was named a Mujeres Imparables by Telemundo in February 2022. And is a member of the Advisory Committee at the Jerome Robbins Dance Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. She cofounded and is artistic advisor of Adriana Pierce’s queer the ballet. She is currently Co-Choreographer on the Buena Vista Social Club Musical™ and the recipient of the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Choreography for this Broadway-bound production. She is devoted to creating a nurturing and positive environment of diversity, authenticity, inclusivity, vulnerability and belonging in all that she embarks upon. She and her husband, Justin Peck welcomed their daughter, Lucia Isabella into this world in March, 2021.