At Miami Royal Ballet School we encourage young people to achieve their personal best in the understanding, appreciation and performance of classical ballet. At each stage of training the level of technical expertise is within the grasp of students who, through a balanced and progressive programme of study, are sympathetically and expertly helped towards an increasingly sound understanding of the principles of movement and fundamentals of classical ballet.

Professor Ballerina

Graduated form the Escuela Nacional de Arte of Cuba in 1981 as Professor Ballerina. Lourdes Arteaga has received many awards including: the gold medal at the International Ballet Contest in Rio de Janeiro in 1988 in the categories of Pas de Deux and best female soloists; the second prize and La Ville de Paris medal handed by Princess Carolina of Monaco at the International Contest of Dance in Paris.

In 1989 she joined the Teatro Municipal de Ballet of Santiago de Chile as the principal dancer, where soon after she was chosen by choreographer and director Ivan Nagy to perform several roles in his choreographies.

Lourdes joined the Ballet Teatro Colon of Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1992. There she became principal dancer and danced for twelve years in several choreographies from well known choreographers such as George Balanchine, Roland Petit, Ben Stevenson, John Cranco, and many others. She also danced alongside Julio Bocca and Jorge Esquivel just to mention a few. She has been invited to perform in theaters throughout Europe and America.

Among her works:

• Swan Lake
• Giselle
• Carmen
• Cinderella
• Serenade
• Apollon
• La Bayadera
• Coppelia
• Paquita

Since 2002 Lourdes has been teaching modern and classical ballet at several ballet schools in south Florida. She has also been invited to create and arrange dances for several shows in the Miami area. In 2005 Lourdes was invited by the Alabama Ballet Theater and the Puerto Rico Ballet School to help organize the 2005 summer ballet competition. She has created choreographies, taught ballet classes and prepared students for competitions.

Lourdes has created classical and modern choreographies and prepared students for contests in the studios of Dance Attack, The Art of Classical Ballet, Ballet Vivian Tobio, and Albertina Fumagalli Ballet Art. She continues to teach ballet, arranges dances, prepare performances with the Miami Royal Ballet School.