Cayetano Soto was born in Spain in 1975. He started his dance education in his hometown Barcelona at the Instituto del Teatro and continued his studies at the Royal Conservatorium in The Hague. After receiving his degree, Cayetano Soto danced with IT Dansa in Barcelona before joining the Ballet Theater Munich a year later. There he created several successful ballets for the company.
Cayetano Soto has gone on to create “Quotidiano” for the Festival Internazionale di Danza in Venice, Italy and “24FPS” for the Royal Ballet of Flanders which won the Hapag Lloyd prize in April 2006. His first full evening ballet was a new “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” which was premiered in July 2006 in Lübeck and in November 2006 in Schwerin. In spring 2007 he created “Dependent behaviour” for the Ballet of the Staatstheater Braunschweig and in July he was invited to make a piece at the Northwest Pacific Dance Project in Portland, Oregon: “Not yet” was so successful, that it immediately entered the repertory of the company.
In fall 2007 his piece M/C about the relationship of Marilyn Monroe and Truman Capote was premiered with the Royal Ballet of Flanders. In spring 2008 he created “Two at a time”, a piece about doubles, for Stuttgart ballet and in summer “last but not least” for the Northwest Pacific Dance Project. In July his new work “Canela fina” was premiered with the Ballet da Cidade in Sao Paulo. This piece was co-produced with Liceu in Barcelona, where it had its European premiere in September 2008. In October he made a choreography with four dancers in the church of St. Egidien in Nürnberg, dancing Mozart’s mass in c-minor with live orchestra. In 2009 he created “Zero in on” for Augsburg Ballet, staged his very first choreography “Fugaz” in Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, staged M/C in Dortmund and created a new full evening version of “Carmen” for Dortmund Ballet.
Due to the success in Dortmund, Brno in Czech Republic decided to stage his “Carmen” in 2010. Soto’s first new creation in 2010 was “Kiss me goodnight” for Introdans in Arnhem, followed by a solo for first soloist of Bavarian State Ballet Munich Lisa-Maree Cullum which was created to present the new collection of the label Talbot Runhof at the fashion week in Paris.
In May 2010, for Companhia nacional de Bailado in Lisboa, he created “Sacre du printemps”. Finally, in June of the same year, he created UNEVEN for Aspen Santa Fe Ballet. Cayetano Soto is based in Munich.
