Marcelino Sambé (1994–). Portuguese dancer

Portuguese-born Marcelino Sambé trained at the National Conservatory of Lisbon and The Royal Ballet Upper School, joining The Royal Ballet in 2012. He has an extensive repertoire with the company. He was made a principal dancer in 2019, and has danced roles in the classics include Swan Lake, Giselle, Coppélia, The Nutcracker, La Bayadère, Don Quixote and The Sleeping Beauty. He also dances leading roles in Frederick Ashton’s La Fille mal gardée, The Dream, The Two Pigeons, Les Patineurs, Voices of Spring, and Rhapsody; Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet, Manon, Elite Syncopations, Concerto and Mayerling; Christopher Wheeldon’s The Winter’s Tale, Within the Golden Hour and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; William Forsythe’s The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude; George Balanchine’s Tarantella, Jewels, Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, and Symphony in C; David Dawson’s The Human Seasons; Wayne McGregor’s Infra; and Jerome Robbins’ Dances at a Gathering. He created roles in Wheeldon’s Like Water for Chocolate; Kyle Abraham’s Optional Family: A Divertissement; Crystal Pite’s Flight Pattern; Kim Brandstrup’s Ceremony of Innocence; Alastair Marriott’s Connectome; Hofesh Shechter’s Untouchable; Cathy Marston’s The Cellist; and McGregor’s Woolf Works and The Dante Project.