Jimmy Orrante - BalletMet Columbus

A native of Los Angeles, Jimmy Orrante returns to BalletMet Columbus for his ninth season. He began his training at the Los Angeles County High School for the Performing Arts, under Don Hewitt, and is a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts. He has attended international summer workshops in Budapest, Hungary, studied modern dance in London, and toured with Nevada Dance Theatre.

Since joining BalletMet, Mr. Orrante has danced a variety of title roles including Cavalier in The Nutcracker, Albrecht in Giselle, the Young Don in Stanton Welch’s Don Quixote, Count Von RothBart in David Nixon’s Swan Lake, as well as originating the leading roles in Mr. Nixon’s Dangerous Liaisons and Dracula. In the summer of 2002 Mr. Orrante was asked to perform with the Northern Ballet Theatre in Leeds, England, as principle artist and tour throughout England in Mr. Nixon’s Evening of Gershwin. He recently returned in the spring of 2003 to tour with NBT as the character of Death in Birgit Scherzer’s Requiem!!