Vinicius Lima
Ballet West Academy Trainee: 2016
Joined Ballet West II: 2018
Joined Ballet West: 2020
Promoted to Demi-Soloist: 2024
Promoted to Soloist: 2025
Vinicius Lima is from Vitoria, Brazil. He joined the Ballet West Academy as a Trainee in 2016 and then joined Ballet West II in 2018. He was promoted to the main company in 2020. With Ballet West, Vinicius has danced roles like Lensky in Cranko's Onegin, Lubovich's Concerto Six Twenty-Two, Fonte’s Carmina Burana, Archibalds' Tides, Laplane's Galantheae, and Nunes’ Orange, among many others.
Lima was promoted to Demi Soloist in 2023 where he performed Forsythe’s Blake Works, Ratmansky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, Wheeldon’s Within the Golden Hour, Renfield in Ben Stevenson’s Dracula, Whitehead’s Fever Dream and Quan’s Play on Impulse.
He choreographed his first ballet Elis on Ballet West in the Spring of 2025 and was promoted to Soloist starting this upcoming season.
Follow Vinicius on Instagram @vinicius_vinilima.
Click below to see Vinicius’s roles.
2022-23 Season
- Onegin (Cranko) Lensky
- Rodeo (DeMille)
ON TOUR
- Orange (Nunes) – Ballet West in the Garden, Red Butte Garden Amphitheater, Salt Lake City, Utah
- Galantheae (LaPlane) – Ballet West in the Garden, Red Butte Garden Amphitheater, Salt Lake City, Utah
2021-22 Season
- Dracula (Stevenson)
- The Nutcracker (Christensen) Grandfather, Nutcracker Prince, Chinese Warrior, Mother Buffoon, Russian
- Romeo + Juliet (Smuin) Street Dancer
- Glass Pieces (Robbins) “Akhenaten”
- Carmina Burana (Fonte)
- Galantheae (LaPlane) Choreographic Festival (Rose Wagner Theater, Salt Lake City)
- Orange (Nunes) Choreographic Festival (Rose Wagner Theater, Salt Lake City)
ON TOUR
- Piece of My Heart (Fonte) – Ballet West in the Garden, Red Butte Garden Amphitheater, Salt Lake City, Utah
- Romeo + Juliet (Smuin) – George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Center, Park City, Utah
2020-21 Season
- Tides (Archibald)
- Faraway Close (Fonte)
- Precious Gems
- Duet from Concerto Six Twenty-Two (Lubovich)
- The Thing With Feathers (Adams) Choreographic Festival (Rose Wagner Theater, Salt Lake City)
ON TOUR
- The Thing With Feathers (Adams) – George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Center, Park City, Utah
- Piece of My Heart (Fonte) – George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Center, Park City, Utah
2019-20 Season
- Le Chant Du Rossingnol (Balanchine) Mandarin
- Prodigal Son (Balanchine) Drinking Companion
- Snow White (Robinson-Harris and Dolkas) The Prince, Brother Grimm
- The Nutcracker (Christensen)
- Giselle (Sklute, after Coralli and Perrot)
ON TOUR
- Giselle (Sklute, after Coralli and Perrot) –The Soraya, Los Angeles, California
2018-19 Season
- Beauty and the Beast (Robinson-Harris and Dolkas) The Prince, Henri
- The Nutcracker (Christensen) Bear
- Swan Lake (Sklute, after Petipa and Ivanov)
- Onegin (Cranko)
Photo by Beau Pearson