Fernando Ramos is a dance artist from San Juan, Puerto Rico. His formal dance training started when he was 16. When he entered college, he immediately joined the university’s pre-professional dance company, MTSU Dance Theatre. While at Middle Tennessee State University he minored in dance and had the pleasure to learn from and work with Kim Nofsinger, Marsha Barsky, Jenna Kosowski, Cynthia Gutierrez, Patty Foster, Aaron McGloin, Madia Cooper and Jesse Zaritt. After returning to Puerto Rico in 2014, he joined contemporary ballet company CoDa 21 as a guest artist for multiple productions, most notably Septime Webre’s “Alice! (In Wonderland)”. He also danced works by Jesús Miranda, Denisse Eliza, Nacho Duato, Telmo Moreira, and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui.

As a choreographer, he has been commissioned by Ballet Concierto de Puerto Rico, Ballets de San Juan, Instituto de Cultura de Puerto Rico, CoDa 21, Portland Ballet in Maine, and Ballet 22. He has also collaborated as a choreographer in multiple theatrical productions with director Miguel Rosa, such as: “Billy Elliot: The Musical”, “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”, “Once on this Island”, “Speak Not!”, and “Little Women: The Musical”.

He is one of the founders of Claroscuro, a contemporary dance collective. His work has been performed by Claroscuro in international dance festivals such as SoloDuo Dance Festival in New York, EDANCO in the Dominican Republic and the Buffer Fringe Performing Arts Festival in Cyprus. His work has focused on community, migration, and the humanities.

In 2021, he created two professional training opportunities through the choreographic intensive ‘NEXO’ and the contemporary dance intensive ‘CONTEMPORA’. He’s also been part of the dance faculty at Sacred Heart University and is a collaborator for the contemporary dance company BocaTuya in New York and the Puerto Rican dance company CoDa 21. In 2024, alongside collaborator Rafael Cañals, they celebrated the first edition of Festival Contempora, a contemporary dance festival in Puerto Rico. Currently, he is the Chair of the Dance Department at New Mexico School for the Arts in Santa Fe and is excited to be launching Ramos Danza as a contemporary dance company.

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