ARIEL ROSE

Ariel Rose is a former soloist with the Miami City Ballet and a freelance choreographer.

 

A Peruvian-American, native of New York City, he attended the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School for Music & Art and the Performing Arts. Receiving his early dance training at Ballet Academy East, he continued on to the ABT/Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Ballet School and completed his training at the Boston Ballet School on full scholarship. Rose then went on to dance professionally with the Boston Ballet II, El Ballet Municipal de Lima, in Peru, and the Richmond Ballet. In 2013, he joined the Miami City Ballet.

 

Rose first began choreographing in 2002 through student choreographic projects and in 2015, was a recipient of the choreographic fellowship from Jennifer Homan’s Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University. He has since been commissioned to create new works by many professional companies, including the Miami City Ballet, Cia De Ballet do Rio de Janeiro, Medanza, Ballet Metropolitano, Sanctuary for the Arts, The Inter-American Choreographic Institute, The Skylar Campbell Dance Collective, Revolve Dance Project, and Dimensions Dance Theater of Miami. His choreographic works have been performed in cities all over the Americas, and at estimable theaters such as, Jacob’s Pillow and the Joyce. He has also created works for distinguished schools including Miami City Ballet School, Boston Ballet School, Joffrey School NYC and Ballet Academy East. 

 

In 2017, Rose’s work Hesperion, choreographed for Cia de Ballet do Rio de Janeiro, was awarded the silver medal in choreography at the Valentina Kozlova International Ballet Competition. His first work commissioned by Miami City Ballet, Amorada Pas De Deux, went on to be performed at the Nantucket Dance Festival and the Miami International Ballet Festival. In 2022 Rose was commissioned by Daniel Ulbricht to create a work for his Stars of American Ballet for principal dancers of Miami City Ballet. In 2022 and 2024 Rose received major choreographic grants from The Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs for his work in South Florida. Such works included collaborations with widely celebrated Miami based musicians and composers, such as the fellows of the New World Symphony, Frost School of music professor Orlando Jacinto and acclaimed latin grammy nominee Jorge Mejia.

 

In addition to choreographing, Rose creates, edits, and directs film projects. Traveler, a three-part dance film, which he choreographed and co-directed, was selected by the Canadian International Fashion Film Festival (CANIFF) and Miami Screen Dance Festival.

 

Rose is a member of the Inter-American Choreographic Institute and helped artistically found its annual festival, Men Who Dance - a unique program bringing together male dancers of various dance disciplines from all over the world, in order to celebrate and showcase their talents. He also serves as faculty at the Sanctuary for the Arts in Coral Gables, Florida. 

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In 2026 Ariel produced a full evening of his works in NYC titled Ballet Rose: Made in Miami with dancers from Miami City Ballet and New York City Ballet at the Florence Gould Theater. 

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