Dancers

Erica Alvarado

ERICA ALVARADO was born in Tucson, Arizona, and arrived at BalletMet for the 2022/23 season via Atlanta Ballet, City Ballet of San Diego, Milwaukee Ballet, and Ballet Tucson.

Alvarado began her dance training at Ballet Arts in Tucson, under the direction of Mary Beth Cabana, and she attended many prestigious summer intensives. After graduating from high school, she joined Ballet Tucson and worked closely with ballet masters Amanda McKerrow and John Gardner from American Ballet Theater, where they selected Alvarado to perform leading roles in Antony Tudor ballets. Two years later, she joined Milwaukee Ballet II.

Alvarado was signed as a principal at City Ballet of San Diego in 2011, where she performed in The Firebird, Carmen, Giselle, Don Quixote, Romeo and Juliet, George Balanchine works Square Dance, Who Cares, La Source, Donizetti Variations, Allegro Brillante, Serenade, Tarantella, Walpurgisnacht, Concerto Barocco, Apollo, and Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux. She also performed soloist roles in The Four Temperaments and Agon, and danced the role of the Principal Woman in Peter Martin’s Hallelujah Junction.

In 2017, Alvarado joined Atlanta Ballet where she performed Kitri, The Sugar Plum Fairy, The Snow Queen, and other leading roles in Helgi Tómasson’s 7 for Eight, Stanton Welch’s Tu Tu and More, Craig Davidson’s Remembrance Hereafter, Liam Scarlett’s Vespertine, and in Scarlett’s world premiere of Catch.

When Alvarado is not dancing, she teaches her passion to students and professionals of all ages.