Felipe Diaz 

Felipe was born in Bogota, Colombia where he began his training with his parents Ana Consuelo Gomez and Jaime Diaz. He then continued his training at the San Francisco Ballet School. His career spanned 22 years and Diaz has danced as a soloist with San Francisco Ballet, The English National Ballet, and The Dutch National Ballet. He has performed numerous lead roles including the Prince in Ashton’s Cinderella, Basilio in Ratmansky’s Don Quixote, the Cavalier in Christensen/Tomasson’s Nutcracker and the Eagling/van Schaik production, James in La Sylphide, Lensky in Cranko’s Onegin,Petrouschka in Petrouschka, Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet,and leading roles in works by renowned choreographers such as George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Harald Lander, HelgiTomasson, Christopher Wheeldon, Hans van Manen, Alexei Ratmansky, and William Forsythe.

After retiring from the stage, Diaz began working as a rehearsal director for the Dutch National Ballet and has been a guest teacher for several ballet companies including ABT, Royal Ballet, Dutch National Ballet, Royal Swedish Ballet, Finnish National Ballet, Norwegian National Ballet, and National Ballet of Canada.

Diaz assumed the title of Ballet Master at San Francisco Ballet in 2013. He returns to the Bay Area with his wife Marisa Lopez, a former San Francisco Ballet School student, San Francisco Ballet corps de ballet member, and Dutch National principal dancer. Diaz and his wife have two sons, Gabriel and Cristian