Barry Molina

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Barry Molina is originally from Minnesota, where he started dancing at age six with the St. Croix Ballet in Stillwater. He went on to train at New York City’s School of American Ballet year-round, after which he joined Milwaukee Ballet II in 2009. During this time, he performed as Peter’s Shadow in the world premiere of Michael Pink’s Peter Pan.  

Since being promoted to the Company in 2011, Molina has performed many other featured roles in Pink’s repertoire, including Jack in Cinderella, Renfield and the Bell Boy in Dracula, the Pied Piper in Beauty and the Beast, Benno in Swan Lake, the titular role in Peter Pan, as well as Fritz, Jack, and principal dancer (Chinese Variation) in The Nutcracker. He has also been featured as Vaslav Nijinksy in Timothy O’Donnell’s world premiere of Sacre, Puck in Bruce Wells’ A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and in 2022 Genesis winner Price Suddarth’s piece, Aftermath, and his subsequent work, Strangeland.  

He was promoted to Leading Artist in 2021.