PRINCIPAL ARTIST

Born in Havana, Cuba, Juan Carlos Osma began dancing at age five in Cuban traditional styles including salsa, mambo, cha-cha, and rumba. He trained at the Elementary School of Ballet Alejo Carpentier and the National School of Ballet Fernando Alonso Academy, graduating in 2010 as a professional dancer and qualified teacher. He toured internationally with Ballet Revolución for two years, performing in France, Italy, Australia, Germany, Switzerland, and the UK, including an exclusive performance for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. He went on to dance as Principal with Joburg Ballet and Liaoning Ballet, where he premiered Swan Lake (Vladimir Malakhov) and The Butterfly Legend (Rui López), and presented his choreography Find Me on the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre in Russia.

Since joining West Australian Ballet in 2019, Osma has performed in ALICE in wonderland as The Mad Hatter, Sandy & Aurélien Scannella's Giselle as Albrecht, The Nutcracker as Uncle Drosselmeyer, Greg Horsman's La Bayadère as Solor, Swan Lake as The Prince, Don Quixote as Basilio & Espada, and Javier Torres' The Sleeping Beauty as Carabosse & Prince Desiré, alongside works by Nils Christe, David Dawson, and George Balanchine.

His world premieres include Nothing Twice, Goldberg Variations, Slow Haunt, Echoes of Van Gogh, and Butterfly Effect, and he was awarded the 2022 Performing Arts WA Award – Outstanding Male Performer - for his role in The Sleeping Beauty and 2024 Performing Arts WA Award – Outstanding Duet/Ensemble - for Echoes of Van Gogh.