Dance

Jeanette Delgado

Princess Grace Award:
Dance Fellowship, 2003

Jeanette Delgado was born in Miami and began her dance training with Vivian Tobio, Liana Navarro and Maria Victoria Gutierrez. At the age of nine she received a scholarship to study at Miami City Ballet School and spent her summers studying at Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, American Ballet Theatre and Chautauqua Dance Program. In 2003, Delgado received the Princess Grace Award and began her apprenticeship with Miami City Ballet before becoming a member of the corps de ballet the following year. In 2006, she was promoted to soloist and to principal dancer in 2008. She has been invited to perform outside of MCB with the Chautauqua Ballet Company, under the direction of Jean Pierre Bonnefoux and Patricia McBride, and has participated in Oregon Ballet Theaters’ Dance United performances in 2010 and 2012.