Ballet
Goyo Montero

Management, Choreography, Stage / Costume, Lighting Design
Ballettdirektor & Chefchoreograf
Born in 1975 in Madrid, Spain. He was formed by Carmen Roche and completed his studies at the Royal Conservatory for Professional Dance in Madrid and the School of the National Ballet of Cuba. Among others he received the following awards as a dancer: Winner of the Prix Lausanne in 1993 and Gold Medal and Grand Prix at the International Ballet Competition of Luxembourg. Critics of Dance Europe Magazine nominated him Best Dancer of the season 2003/2004.
Goyo Montero was Principal Dancer at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Soloist at the Oper Leipzig, Staatstheater Wiesbaden and the Royal Ballet of Flanders. He has been invited among others as guest soloist with the National Ballet of Mexico, the Perth City Ballet and the Ballet d‘Europe.
As choreographer he created pieces for Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, Royal Ballet London, Zurich Ballet, Staatsballett Hannover, Acosta Danza, Perm Opera Ballet/Diana Vishneva Context Festival, National Ballet Sodre, Maggio Danza, Compañia Nacional de Danza, Deutsche Oper Berlin, National Ballet of Cuba, and the Ballet de Teatres de la Generalitat Valenciana and many others.
With his choreographies Goyo Montero took part in different festivals, amongst others in Havana (XX International Ballet Festival), Florence (71th Maggio Musicale Fiorentino), Granada (International Festival of Dance and Music), Zaragoza (Expo Zaragoza), Madrid (Madrid en Danza and Veranos de la Villa), Tokyo (Expo Aichi Tokio Forum), Russia (Chekhov International Theatre Festival Moscow and Diana Vishneva’s Context Festival) and Holland Dance Festival.
With season 2008/2009 Goyo Montero is ballet director and principal choreographer of Nuremberg Ballet. Until today the ballet director has developed and staged 23 creations for his company in Nuremberg. Since 2019 Goyo Montero is also Resident Choreographer of Acosta Danza.
A long term partnership exists between Goyo Montero and the Prix de Lausanne. Montero participated here for many years, among other things, as coach, jury member and choreographer of two choreografic projects specially designed for the Prix in 2018 ans 2023. Among his awards as Choreographer: In 2006 the award “Villa de Madrid” (the 1st award of the Iberoamerican competition of Choreography), the Villanueva award by the UNEAC (Union of Writers, Critics and Artits of Cuba) and the award “Teatro de Madrid”.
In 2009 Goyo Montero has been awarded with the cultural prize of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce of Middle Franconia. In 2012 Goyo Montero got awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture with the Premio Nacional de Danza. In 2014 Goyo Montero received the Bavarian Culture Award. In 2018 the ‘Deutscher Tanzpreis’ (German Dance Award) has been presented to Ballet Nuremberg under the directorship of Goyo Montero for outstanding development in dance.
International Dance Magazines repeatedly nominated Goyo Montero as choreographer (amongst others „Choreographer of the Year 2014“ in Dance for You) as well as for his works (amongst others nominations as Best Choreography for „Sleeping Beauty“ (2008), „Romeo and Juliet“ with Compañia Nacional de Danza (2012/2013),„Black Bile“ (2014), „Cyrano“ (2015) „Don Quijote“ (2017) „Sacre“ (2020) „Narrenschiff“ and „Submerge“ (2022).
Photo © Pedro Malinowski
This season
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Oktober 2022
Fr, 07/10/2022, 07.30 So, 16/10/2022, 07.00 Do, 20/10/2022, 08.00 Sa, 29/10/2022, 08.00 Mo, 31/10/2022, 08.00 Fr, 07/10/2022, 07.30 So, 16/10/2022, 07.00 Do, 20/10/2022, 08.00 Sa, 29/10/2022, 08.00 Mo, 31/10/2022, 08.00 Fr, 07/10/2022, 07.30 So, 16/10/2022, 07.00 Do, 20/10/2022, 08.00 Sa, 29/10/2022, 08.00 Mo, 31/10/2022, 08.00as Licht
Februar 2023
Sa, 11/02/2023, 07.30 Sa, 18/02/2023, 06.00 Mo, 20/02/2023, 08.00 Sa, 11/02/2023, 07.30 Sa, 18/02/2023, 06.00 Mo, 20/02/2023, 08.00 Sa, 11/02/2023, 07.30 Sa, 18/02/2023, 06.00 Mo, 20/02/2023, 08.00as Konzept und Choreografie
November 2022
Fr, 04/11/2022, 07.00Dezember 2022
So, 11/12/2022, 11.00 Sa, 17/12/2022, 07.30 Di, 20/12/2022, 08.00 Do, 22/12/2022, 08.00 Mo, 26/12/2022, 08.00Januar 2023
Sa, 07/01/2023, 07.30 Sa, 14/01/2023, 07.30 Sa, 21/01/2023, 07.30 So, 29/01/2023, 07.00 Di, 31/01/2023, 07.30 Di, 31/01/2023, 07.30März 2023
Do, 09/03/2023, 08.00as Licht
März 2023
Mi, 22/03/2023, 07.00 Mo, 27/03/2023, 07.00 Mi, 22/03/2023, 07.00 Mo, 27/03/2023, 07.00 Mi, 22/03/2023, 07.00 Mo, 27/03/2023, 07.00April 2023
Sa, 22/04/2023, 11.30 Sa, 29/04/2023, 07.30 Sa, 22/04/2023, 11.30 Sa, 29/04/2023, 07.30 Sa, 22/04/2023, 11.30 Sa, 29/04/2023, 07.30Mai 2023
Di, 02/05/2023, 08.00 Sa, 06/05/2023, 07.30 Di, 09/05/2023, 08.00 Fr, 19/05/2023, 07.30 Fr, 26/05/2023, 08.00 So, 28/05/2023, 03.30 Di, 02/05/2023, 08.00 Sa, 06/05/2023, 07.30 Di, 09/05/2023, 08.00 Fr, 19/05/2023, 07.30 Fr, 26/05/2023, 08.00 So, 28/05/2023, 03.30 Di, 02/05/2023, 08.00 Sa, 06/05/2023, 07.30 Di, 09/05/2023, 08.00 Fr, 19/05/2023, 07.30 Fr, 26/05/2023, 08.00 So, 28/05/2023, 03.30as Moderation
September 2022
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