DancePulp interview filmed. Scheduled release date to be announced.

Biography:
Marcelo Gomes, a native of Brazil, was born in Manaus and raised in Rio de Janeiro, where he began his dance studies at the Helena Lobato and Dalal Achcar Ballet Schools. He went on to study at The Harid Conservatory in Boca Raton, Florida, and at the schools of the Paris Opera Ballet, Houston Ballet, Boston Ballet, and Cuballet. A prize winner at Lausanne (Hope Prize, 1996), he was also awarded second place at the National Society of Arts and Letters in 1994, and the Winter Festival in Brazil (1993). Gomes joined American Ballet Theatre in 1997 as a member of the corps de ballet. Gomes was promoted to Soloist in August 2000 and Principal Dancer in August 2002. Gomes danced Twyla Tharp’s Sinatra Suite, partnering Luciana Paris, at the 2008 Kennedy Center Honors.