Fernando Ramos
Fernando Ramos is a dance artist based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. His formal training started when he was 16. When he entered college, he immediately joined the university’s pre-professional dance company, MTSU Dance Theatre. While at Middle Tennessee State University he minored in dance and had the pleasure to learn from and work with Kim Nofsinger, Marsha Barsky, Jenna Kosowski, Cynthia Gutierrez, Patty Foster, Aaron McGloin, Madia Cooper and Jesse Zaritt. After returning to Puerto Rico, he joined contemporary ballet company CoDa 21 as a guest artist for multiple productions, most notably Septime Webre’s “Alice! (In Wonderland)”. He also danced works by Jesús Miranda, Denisse Eliza, and Nacho Duato.
As a choreographer, he has been commissioned by Ballet Concierto de Puerto Rico, Ballets de San Juan, Instituto de Cultura de Puerto Rico, CoDa 21, and Portland Ballet in Maine. He has also collaborated as a choreographer in multiple theatrical productions with director Miguel Rosa, such as: “Billy Elliot: The Musical”, “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”, “Once on this Island”, “Speak Not!”, and “Little Women: The Musical”.
He is one of the founders of Claroscuro, a contemporary dance collective. His work has been performed by Claroscuro in international dance festivals such as SoloDuo Dance Festival in New York, EDANCO in the Dominican Republic and the Buffer Fringe Performing Arts Festival in Cyprus. In 2021, he created two professional training opportunities through the choreographic intensive ‘NEXO’ and the contemporary dance intensive ‘CONTEMPORA’. He’s also been part of the dance faculty at Sacred Heart University and is a dancer for the contemporary dance company BocaTuya in New York and the Puerto Rican dance company CoDa 21.