Born in Oakland, California, Ryan Martin received his training with Virginia's ODU Ballet, the National Ballet School in Toronto, Canada and on a scholarship at the Vaganova Ballet Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia. Before joining Milwaukee Ballet, he danced with Ballet Met, Charleston Ballet Theater, Tulsa Ballet, Dresdner Ballet and Leonid Jakobson's Choreographic Miniatures. Mr. Martin has performed as a guest artist in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Portugal, Japan, and several United States cities. He has danced principal roles in ballets such as The Sleeping Beauty, Don Quixote, Voluntaries, Swan Lake, Giselle, Romeo & Juliet and Taming of the Shrew. Mr. Martin has also performed leading roles in works by George Balanchine, Leonid Jacobson, Uwe Scholz, John Neumeier, Stanton Welch, Nacho Duato, Paul Taylor, Lila York, Liev Vainonien and Marius Petipa.
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