Renato trained with Maria Elena Scheuch in his native Chile, where he danced for the Chilean National Ballet under Nora Arriagada from 1980. He was a permanent member of the Ballet de Santiago de Chile under Ivan Nagy, dancing with ballet greats such as Marcia Haydée, Richard Cragun, Natalia Makarova and Fernando Bujones. He went to Germany in 1990 to join the Augsburg Ballet as a soloist, and later worked in Munich. From 2001 to 2007 he was appointed as guest ballet master all over the world. Following an invitation by Eric Gauthier he joined Gauthier Dance at Theaterhaus Stuttgart in 2007, where he has looked after pieces by Eric Gauthier, Mauro Bigonzetti, William Forsythe, Itzik Galili and others.

When you were little what did you want to be when you grew up?

Actually I always thought about dance. Yeah, it was something natural in me. I grew up as …(0:22)

What‘s your favorite thing to eat?

My favourite thing to eat is korean barbecue, sushi and Schweinebraten.

Do you have a favorite book?

Yes, « The Five People You Meet in Heaven » from Mitch Albom and «Alchemista» from Paulo Coelho.

Favorite movies?

My favorite movie is « Big Expectations » with Robert De Niro and Ethan Hawke, « The Lady » and Gwyneth Paltrow. It’s a very beautiful movie. It’s a romantic movie because I love romantic and dramatic.

Favorite dance piece?

My favorite dance piece and musical is….(1:50) and « Les Miserables ». Ballet piece…I love (2:03)…

I like dancers who …

I like dancers who are committed, who have lots of love at work, discipline and dancers who listen.

What is something you like to do other than your job as a ballet master?

It is something crazy actually. I want to be a flight attendant because I like travelling and I love to speak another language like you know I speak seven ( ? listen at 2 :45) languages so that’s why.

Do you have any hobbies other than dance?

I like to collect magazines, like fashion magazines and stuff like that.

One of the happiest moments in your life?

One of my happiest moments in my life was when I took my mom to Venice and I showed her Piazza San Marco and to see her eyes… It looks like a five years old girl and that was one of my most beautiful moments in my life and also the happiest was when Eric invited me to join the incredible (3 :58)…with Gauthier Dance.

One of your most unusual or coolest experiences?

One of my most coolest experiences as a professional ballet master is being in…(4:38)

One of the most embarrassing moments in your professional career?

One of the most embarrassing moments was the first time I fell on stage, I thought I’m gonna get fired and all that. I fell really bad and I couldn‘t look at anybody after. I felt embarrassed and I thought the whole audience was looking at me at the moment.

Who has been the most influential people in your life and career?

First of all my mom because she supported me from the very first time then my ballet teacher Maria Elena Scheuch, Ivan Nagy taught me the classical and the discipline and to be committed and learn to listen and the passion to classical ballet and Philip Taylor for giving me the input to teach and also for teaching me to be kind of contemporary dancer. Mostly because he inspired me and he taught me to teach actually because he saw that have the talent to teach and he input this in my life so that‘s very important to me.

What is the hardest thing about your job?

I think the hardest thing about my job is to be equal and fair to to dancers, to everybody and the other thing is to hold the back of your boss.

Do you have any goals you still wish to achieve?

Yes, to be everyday better and I would like to be a ballet director.

If you could change one thing in the dance world what would it be?

I would like to change that the classical ballet is not boring and old-fashioned and old-fashioned are the people who like just one thing and they can accept other things too. They know open mind because it‘s classical ballet, it‘s well done and correctly and with a style, it‘s not boring. It‘s boring because it has been back coached.

If you could change one thing in the real world, what would it be?

I think tolerance. We should try to change that. We should be more tolerant with everything for religion, four color, sex, to be tolerant with the world because that’s the problem that we have today.

Do you have a piece of advice for aspiring artists?

Yes. To learn and to listen. It’s really hard today sometimes you know art or dance or whatever you call it, sometimes they don’t really listen and they don’t learn anymore so much because we are too busy with iPhone in general. If you really want to be an artist you have to learn everyday something and listen when people tell you something.

Do you have a question that you want to know the answer to?

Yes. What’s next after next?