Daniel Wagner

Daniel Wagner was born and raised in Los Angeles, California where he began his dance training at Pasadena Civic Ballet under the tutelage of Craig Williams. After attending summer intensives at ABT and the Kirov Academy, Wagner moved away from home to finish high school at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. He then finished his training at Houston Ballet under Claudio Muñoz and Andrew Murphy. He has danced professionally with Tulsa Ballet and Cincinnati Ballet where he performed principal roles in classical and contemporary works such as George Balanchine’s Serenade, Val Caniparoli’s Lady of the Camellias, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s Eros Redux, Penny Saunders’s Nannerl, and Ohad Naharin’s Minus 16.