Our Team

Born in Madrid, Spain, Luz San Miguel trained at Carmina Ocana Ballet School and on scholarship at the Municipal Institute of Ballet. She enjoyed a successful career dancing as a guest artist and in Companies internationally, performing leading roles in ballets by John Cranko, George Balanchine, John Neumeier, Nacho Duato, Antony Tudor, Stanton Welch, Paul Taylor, Lila York, and Jerome Robbins, among others. At Milwaukee Ballet, San Miguel danced leading roles in all of Michael Pink’s repertoire, including Dracula, The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Don Quixote, Peter Pan, Coppélia, La Bohème, Mirror Mirror, Cinderella, Esmeralda, Giselle, and Romeo & Juliet. Upon her retirement from the stage in 2018, San Miguel assumed her new role of Rehearsal Director. 

A native Russian, Denis Malinkine graduated from the esteemed Bolshoi Ballet Academy. Following dancing in the Companies of Moscow Classical Ballet and the National Ballet of Portugal, Malinkine enjoyed a celebrated career as a Principal at England’s Northern Ballet Theatre, where he created the title role in the landmark production of Dracula by Michael Pink and Christopher Gable, as well as the roles of Captain Phoebus in Pink’s Hunchback of Notre Dame and Albrecht in Giselle. Malinkine later joined Atlanta Ballet, where he created the role of Romeo in Michael Pink’s Romeo & Juliet. He also danced in works by George Balanchine, Kenneth MacMillan, Lila York, and many others. Malinkine now performs as guest artist and remounts Pink’s ballets internationally. 

Born in Yerevan, Davit Hovhannisyan trained at National Ballet School of Armenia on full scholarship. In 2004, he joined Milwaukee Ballet, where he performed as a critically acclaimed Leading Artist for 20 years. He danced principal roles in several Michael Pink ballets and worked with many other esteemed choreographers before retiring in 2023.