A graduate of the National Ballet School in Havana, Yvette joins the National Ballet of Cuba, led by Alicia Alonso, in 1987 and performs the great classics of the repertory. Appointed first soloist in 1996, she participates in many tours around the world. During her career, she continues to work with the National Ballet School of Cuba as a Ballet, Repertoire and Character teacher and choreographer. In 2001, she joined the company Sinopia Ensemble directed by Étienne Frey in Geneva. She has taught at Dance Area since 2004.
From 2024 to 2026, at the invitation of Carlos Acosta, she joined Birmingham Royal Ballet as ballet mistress and répétiteur. She worked on revivals of Frederick Ashton’s La Fille mal gardée, Peter Wright’s The Nutcracker, Kurt Jooss’s The Green Table, a landmark of dance theatre, and Black Sabbath – The Ballet, and helped prepare Peter Wright’s The Sleeping Beauty and David Bintley’s Cinderella, notably for a tour of Japan. Now back in Geneva, Yvette Regueiro continues to pass on to new generations the experience she gained as a performer, teacher and ballet mistress with international companies.
