Piedmont Dance Theatre's guest artists for The 2024 season
Célestin Boutin
Célestin Boutin, from Lillers, France, began his dance education under Loula Dombrowski and continued training at prestigious institutions like Académie Chaptal in Paris and the Superior School of Dance Rosella Hightower in Cannes. After furthering his studies at the Royal Swedish Ballet School and New York’s Ellison Ballet, he joined Les Grands Ballets Canadiens in 2015, rising to principal dancer by 2024. His diverse repertoire includes roles in "La Sylphide," "Napoli," "The Nutcracker," and contemporary works by choreographers such as Jiří Kylián and Stephan Thoss.
Daryn Díaz
Daryn Diaz, a Tampa, Florida native of Cuban and Spanish descent, began her dance training at the Patel Conservatory, where she also explored music, theater, and vocal arts. She advanced to the pre-professional ballet company of the Straz Center's Next Generation Ballet, while also studying precision dance, contemporary, and jazz. Her training includes summer programs at Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Victor Ullate in Madrid, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Ballet Hispánico’s ChoreoLab, and Gaga Homelab NYC. In 2019, at age 17, she joined Ballet Hispánico’s second company, BHdos. During the 2020-2021 school year, she taught at the Patel Conservatory and offered private lessons for grades K-12. An early high school graduate and National Honor Society inductee, Diaz is pursuing a bachelor's degree in Marketing Analytics at New York University. She is currently a member of the Metropolitan Opera Ballet in New York City.
Dylan Dias McInTyre
Dylan Dias McIntyre was born in Key West and raised in West Palm Beach, Florida. Dylan started dancing at Palm Beach Ballet Center when he was 8 years old. When he was 16, he moved to Tampa to be a trainee with Next Generation Ballet. After 2 years, he joined Richmond Ballet to complete his training and then started his professional career with Richmond Ballet’s second company. In 2019, Dylan became a company dancer with Ballet Memphis where he danced for three seasons, and he participated in a season with Terpsicorps Theatre of Dance in the summer of 2022. This is Dylan’s second season with Ballet Hispánico.
Yui Sugawara
Yui Sugawara, a distinguished Principal Dancer from Hokkaido, Japan, began her ballet training at the age of four. She graduated from the Ellison Ballet Professional Training Program in 2014. Her professional career commenced with the Hong Kong Ballet, where she performed as a Corps de Ballet member from 2014 to 2017. In 2017, Yui joined Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, advancing from the corps de ballet to Soloist in 2018, First Soloist in 2021, and Principal Dancer in 2022. Her repertoire includes prominent roles in productions such as "Don Quixote" by Nina Ananiashvili, "Swan Lake" by John Meehan, "Sleeping Beauty" by Cynthia Harvey, and "Paquita" by Petipa. Yui's talent has been recognized with several accolades, including being a semi-finalist at the Prix de Lausanne in 2012, a gold medalist at TanzOlymp in 2013, and a semi-finalist at the USA International Ballet Competition in 2014.