Marcelino Sambé

Born in Portugal, Royal Ballet principal dancer Marcelino Sambé talks about his career to date.
With thanks to:
Youth America Grand Prix for video footage
Prix de Lausanne for video footage
Photographs of The Royal Ballet
by Andrej Uspenski and Emma Kauldhar
courtesy of the Royal Opera House
Family and personal photographs
courtesy of Marcelino Sambé
Filmed and produced by
Andrej Uspenski and Emma Kauldhar

[@taviparker4993]

Congratulations and may others be inspired by your focus, excitement, and love for life.

[@brendaannedufaur6244]

How wonderful his family was to love him, nurture him, & adopt him. In so doing they give such beauty in the performing arts to the world.

[@elismycat]

There is such light in his smile...

[@cmarq817]

He had a remarkable life. He came from very humble origins and a broken family but fate was always by his side as well as Dance!

[@elizzy8754]

Apart from his incredible dance talent, Sambé reveals himself to be a fabulous, natural communicator. He has a rich vocabulary and plenty of humour. I was riveted to the screen listening to this interview. More please, on other dance topics from Marcelino Sambé.

[@wilsonisaias3236]

instaBlaster...

[@veracruz7954]

I knew he was a great dancer, but now I’ve discovered he’s also a great guy ! Thanks a million ! 💕💕💕

[@lynnegunn3478]

What an amazing interview, he doesn’t just dance like a dream, he has expertise in expressing himself in sincerely felt language.

[@brendaannedufaur6244]

Beautifully said Lynne.

[@lynnegunn3478]

@@brendaannedufaur6244 Thank you Brenda. Can you imagine him as Romeo.

[@rupert2591]

Just over 40 minutes in the company of a supremely gifted dancer and an erudite, lucid young man. I have a sneaky suspicion I will watch this several times. Thanks a million for posting. x

[@Deedee-ee1sg]

Marchilino is a hard grafter! I saw him dancing with Francesca Hayward in Manon recently! They were both SUPERB!

[@ai51inn]

I love watching Marcelino dance with The Royal Ballet. In every role he is a wonderful and athletic performer, such a talented young man, and comes across in this interview as sincere and with a lovely personality. Thank you for sharing this on KZbin.

[@TheMeredith84]

Beautiful story.. so well spoken and available to the interviewer. How lovely. Bon Show! May you have a long and love filled career!

[@roberthetrick8849]

You just know that anything this guy would do would be good any kind of athletic endeavor and even politics perhaps an ambassador he's just got that kind of charisma

[@brendaannedufaur6244]

I love his humility and sense of grattitude and how he appreciates so many of the greats in his field such as the honor of getting an award from Vasiliev. (Vasiliev and Maximova one of the great immortal pairs.) He honored Anthony Dowell, Antoinette Sibley and so many more. Check out Marcelino's modern red shoes video - AMAZING.

[@paulavarela1000]

Maravilhoso! Um imenso orgulho para nós portugueses. Parabéns, Marcelino pelo talento e alegria.

[@out9of9Aeo]

So sincere and humble, beautiful and a wonderful dancer 💙

[@sedekiman]

Very articulate young man, especially in a second language! A lovely interview, and very insightful into the ballet world.

[@Marisa4412]

Probably it is a fourth language, many people speak many languages

[@sonjatoutenhoofd8696]

That was riveting. Thank you so much.

[@margaridavelhinho1618]

Parabéns, Marcelino! Um abraço da sua terra, Portugal. Grande orgulho para nós!

[@roberthetrick8849]

This guy is amazing you just now if you spent time around this guy you would never be bored. So much energy and as someone commented earlier expertise. Even if someone didn't know a damn thing about ballet you would get an education from this guy definitely a role model for people to look up to is there a tease whiny overpaid spoiled extremely boring athletes in this country.

[@rhena229]

He’s such a charismatic dancer with implacable techniques. So glad I saw him in live performance when Royal Ballet toured in LA a coupe of years ago.💖

[@nicolehourcade]

Great dancer with a talent for explanation and analysis.It is very pleasant to listen to him💥💐🌈

[@nickyoung4905]

The very first time I saw Marci he was a first soloist and gosh I couldn’t take my eyes off him he was mesmerising and I knew right there he was special xx Keep dancing Marci you are amazing and I can’t wait to see you dancing in that famous stage again very soon xxxxx

[@tywanderbush2796]

Bravo!!!

[@ernestcastro6238]

Thank you very much.

[@kathleennelson3465]

Extraordinary interview

[@margaretgill4330]

Fantastic dancer...wow

[@rosalinacruz5985]

Bravo Marcelino.Que orgulho.

[@marshalieberman5480]

Marcelino Same us incredible and a very interesting interview. The only problem us not with him, but with whoever did the closed captioning. It really should have been edited. Glad I knew enough about ballet to understand what and who he was talking about.

[@Fonseca429]

Grande Marcelino!

[@vivienne4934]

Beautiful inside and out

[@lauridibartolo4414]

What a beautiful man

[@eulaliavarandas1680]

🙏👏👏💃🕺

[@lanelmuhammad]

MARIANELA NUÑEZ NEXT?!

[@METODOMIRKOVIC]

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