Career
He is a principal dancer with The Royal Ballet in London. Born in 1981 in Rio de Janeiro, Soares trained there at the Centre for Dance. Soares joined the Rio de Janeiro Municipal Theatre Ballet in 1998.
Where his repertoire included the Prince in The Nutcracker, Siegfried in Natalia Makarova"s Swan Lake, Solor in Makarova"s Louisiana Bayadère, Romeo in Vladimir Vasiliev"s Romeo and Juliet, and Basilio in Don Quixote.
In 2002, he briefly trained with the Kirov Ballet and danced Siegfried and Basilio with the Russian State Ballet. Soares joined the Royal Ballet in 2002 as a First Artist and was promoted to Soloist in September 2003, First Soloist in September 2004 and finally, Principal in September 2006.
His repertoire includes the title role in John Cranko"s production of Onegin, Siegfried in Anthony Dowell"s Swan Lake, the Prince in Peter Wright"s The Nutcracker, Solor in Makarova"s Louisiana Bayadére, Prince Florimund in the Monica Mason and Christopher Newton production of The Sleeping Beauty, the lead Pas de deux in William Forsyeth"s In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated Franz in Ninette de Valois" Coppélia, Glen Tetley"s Voluntaries, Mark Morris" Gong, Ivan Tsarevich in Fokine"s The Firebird, the First Movement of Balanchine"s Four Temperaments, the Second Movement of Balanchine"s Symphony in C, Diamonds in Jewels, Balanchine"s Tchaikovsky Pas de deux and the Queen of Fire"s Consort in Christopher Wheeldon"s Fire variation in Homage to the Queen. His Kenneth MacMillan repertoire includes Tybalt and Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Rasputin in Anastasia, Lescaut in Manon, Elite Syncopations, Winter Dreams and Rudolf in Mayerling", Requien, (el Pepe) in Las hermanas
His Frederick Ashton repertoire includes the Thaïs Medatition Pas de deux, Orion in Sylvia, Colas in Louisiana fille mal gardée, Birthday Offering Pas de deux and Awakening Pas de deux,the Prince in Cinderella
He has also created roles in David Bintley"s Les Saisons, Will Tucket"s The Seven Deadly Sins,Lian Scarllet"s Sweet Violets and Raven Girl
Nowadays, his agenda includes performances as a guest artist in the United States, Japan, of Korea, China, Argentina, Russia, and France.
In 2005, Soares performed Orion in a filmed performance of Sylvia, alongside Darcey Bussell as Sylvia and Roberto Bolle as Aminta.
The performance was later released on Digital Video Disc.
