BIO
Daniel Camargo was born in Sorocaba, Brazil. He started ballet at the age of nine with Ourinhos Ballet School, at the encouragement of his two sisters' dance teacher. A year later, he moved to the ballet school at Teatro Guaíra, Curitiba.
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He competed at the Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) twice, winning both times the second prize. He won a scholarship to the American Ballet Theater’s School, to the Harid Conservatory and was also approached by Tadeusz Matacz, the director of the John Cranko School in Stuttgart, to attend the school on scholarship. In 2005 he began his training in Stuttgart, at age 14. He trained in various ballet styles, including the Russian Vaganova and French method. For his graduation, he danced Uwe Scholz's Notations I-IV.
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​He joined the Stuttgart Ballet in 2009, and was promoted to principal dancer in 2013. In 2016, he left to join the Dutch National Ballet, before leaving in 2019 to pursue a freelance career. In 2022, he joined the American Ballet Theatre.
Repertoire includes
• Don Quixote (M. Guerra) (Nureyev) (Alexander Gorsky) (A. Ratmansky) (C. Acosta) (Laurent Hilaire) (Kevin Mckenzie)
• La Bayadere (Natalia Makarova) (X. Torres) (Stanton Welch)
• Le Corsaire (Anna-Marie Holmes)
• Sleeping Beauty (Marcia Haydee) (Sir Peter Wright)
• Giselle (Reid Anderson) (Andrey Petrov) (Adolphe Adam)
• La Sylphide (Peter Schaufuss)
• Romeo and Juliet (John Cranko) (MacMillan) (Septime Webre)
• Swan Lake (John Cranko) (Kevin Mckenzie) (Rudi van Dantzig) (Konstantin Sergeyev) (Benjamin Pech)
• Nutcracker (Wayne Eagling) (Septime Webre) (A. Ratmansky)
• Coppellia (Ted Brandsen)
• La Fille Mal Gardee (F. Ashton)
• Cinderella (C. Wheeldon)
• Diana and Acteon - PDD (Agrippina Waganova)
• Onegin (Lensky) (John Cranko)
• Taming of the Shrew (John Cranko)
• The Lady of the Camellias (John Neumeier)
• The Dream (Frederick Ashton)
• Othello (John Neumeier)
Furthermore principal roles in
• Song of the Earth (Kenneth MacMillan)
• Requiem (Kenneth Macmillan)
• Aus Holbergs Zeit (John Cranko)
• Homage a Bolshoi (John Cranko)
• Concerto for Flute and Harp (John Cranko)
• Poème de l'Extase (John Cranko)
• The Lady and the Fool (John Cranko)
• Initials R.B.M.E (John Cranko)
• Theme and Variations (George Balanchine)
• Apollon Musagète (George Balanchine)
• The Four Temperaments (George Balanchine)
• Jewels ( George Balanchine)
• Streetcar Named Desire (John Neumeier)
• Adagio Hammerklavier (Hans van Manen)
• Variations for two couples (Hans van Manen)
• Frank Bridge Variations (Hans van Manen)
• Kammerballett (Hans van Manen)
• Dances at the Gathering (Jerome Robbins)
• Le Sacre du Printemps (Glen Tetley)
• Arena (Glen Tetley)
• Gaite Parisienne (Maurice Béjart)
• Forgotten Land (Jiri Kylian)
• The Second Detail (William Forsythe)
• Vier Letzte Lieder (Rudi van Dantzig)
• RED in 3 (Jorma Elo)
• Slice to Sharp (Jorma Elo)
• Das Fräulein von S. (Christian Spuck)
• Leonce and Lena (Christian Spuck)
• Orphée et Euridice (Christian Spuck)
• OLAR (A. Ratmansky)
• Il Concertone (Mauro Bigonzetti)
• Without Words (Nacho Duato)
• Le Chant du Rossignol (Marco Goecke)
• On Velvet (Marco Goecke)
• Orlando (Marco Goecke)
• Big Blur (Demis Volpi)
• Krabat (Demis Volpi)
• Miniatures (Douglas Lee)
• No Men's Land (Edward Clug)
• Ssss...(Edward Clug)
• Firebird (Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui)
• Yantra (Wayne McGregor)
• Woolf Works (Wayne McGregor)
• Like Water for Chocolate (Pedro) (Christopher Wheeldon)
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Dance Partners includes
Amandine Albisson, Alicia Amatriain, Elisa Badenes, Isabella Boylston, Alina Cojocaru, Alessandra Ferri, Igone deJongh, Hyo-Jung Kang, Sue-jin Kang, Maria Kochetkova, Maia Makhateli, Guillian Murthy, Alina Nanu, Marianela Nunez, Natalia Ossipova, Polina Semionova, Hee Seo, Victoria Tereshkina, Cassandra Trenary, Mizuka Ueno, Viengsay Valdés.
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Appearance as Principal Guest Artist
The Royal Ballet, Mariinsky Theater, Teatro Colón, Tokyo Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Het National Ballet, The Australian Ballet, São Paulo Companhia de Dança, Opera di Roma, Finnish National Ballet, Hong Kong Ballet, Czech National Ballet, Kremlin Ballet and Universal Ballet
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Awards
2009 European Most Promising Award (European Foundation for Culture)
2011 Zukunft/Future (Deutscher Tanzpreis – German Dance Prize)
2011 Audience Choice (Erik Bruhn Prize -Toronto)
2017 Positano Prize (Italy)
2018 and 2019 Nominated Benois de la Danse