Maté Szentes

Maté Szentes is originally from Budapest, Hungary and began his training at the age of six. He studied at the Hungarian Dance Academy while attending summer programs at North Carolina Dance Theater in Charlotte, NC on full scholarships. Upon graduation he joined the Hungarian National Ballet where he danced for 3 years performing corps de ballet and soloist roles in the company’s many classical and contemporary productions. In 2012 he moved to California and joined the Sacramento Ballet as a company artist and continued expanding his repertoire. Mr. Szentes relocated to the east coast in 2015 to join the Richmond Ballet where he danced principal and soloist roles in the company’s very versatile repertoire. Besides dancing classical ballet’s most famous roles he had the opportunity to dance many of George Balanchine’s works and worked with world renowned choreographers such as Ma Cong, Val Caniparoli, Mariana Oliveira, Melissa Barak, Katarzyna Skarpetowska, Annabelle Lopez-Ochoa, Nicolas Blanc among many others. Since 2021 he’s a freelance artist while maintaining a guest principal dancer status with American Contemporary Ballet.

He started choreographing in 2016 and so far his works have been performed by the Los Angeles Ballet, Richmond Ballet, Barak Ballet, Ballet Project OC and other independent and project based companies. Mr. Szentes was a finalist at the Palm Desert Choreography Festival in 2022 and 2023 and his works were also invited to be performed at the North Coast Dance Festival in Michigan and at Balletfest in Long Beach, CA.