Graciela Acedo started her dance training in Caracas. In 1982,
she won a government scholarship to study at the Boston Ballet. In
1983, she was awarded a scholarship from Harkness Ballet to work
with Eleonora Dantuono.
In 2005 she was honored with a grant from University of San
Francisco to study pedagogy in Cuba. Her first ballet company was
Ballet Teresa Carren directed by Enrique Martinez, where she
performed classical ballet. In 1983, she joined Ballet Nuevo Mundo
de Caracas, a contemporary ballet company where she was a principal
dancer and worked with choreographers such as Judith Jamison,
Ulises Dove, John Butler, Gustavo Mallajoli, Elisa Monte, Paulo
Denubila, Dennis Nahat, Choo San Goh, and Donald Mackayle among
others. She traveled to Europe, Asia, South America and the
Caribbean.
Graciela performed with Oakland Ballet and has been a guest
artist with the Margaret Wingrove Dance Company, Pacific Dance
Theater of SF, Western Ballet, and Peninsula Ballet Theater among
others.
Her vast teaching experience includes Oakland Ballet, University
of Nebraska, Diablo Ballet, San Francisco School of the Arts
(SOTA), Pacific Dance Theater of San Francisco (Assistant director
to the summer programs), Teen Dance Company, Ballet San Jose, San
Francisco Dance Center, Western Ballet (Associate Director
1998-2003) among others. She has guest taught at America's
Ballet in FL, in Venezuela and in Costa Rica.
