Selene Guerrero-Trujillo and Naoya Ebe Expecting First Child

The National Ballet of Canada today announced that Corps de Ballet member Selene Guerrero-Trujillo and Principal Dancer Naoya Ebe are expecting their first child in January 2018. Principal Character Artist Rebekah Rimsay is expecting her second child with husband Stan Zalewski in March 2018.

Born in Mexico City, Mexico, Ms. Guerrero-Trujillo trained at The National Ballet School of Mexico and Canada's National Ballet School where Tokyo-born Mr. Ebe also trained. Ms. Guerrero-Trujillo and Mr. Ebe both joined the National Ballet in 2007. Mr. Ebe has been a Principal Dancer since 2015 and has danced such roles as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Albrecht in Giselle, Prince Florimund in The Sleeping Beauty, Knave of Hearts in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Prince Charming in Cinderella. He reprises the role of Florizel in The Winter's Tale and Harlequin/Le Spectre de la Rose in Nijinsky during the Fall Season. Ms. Guerrero-Trujillo's repertoire includes Bee in The Nutcracker, Second Fairy in The Sleeping Beauty, Hungarian Princess in Swan Lake, Blossom in Cinderella and Pas de Quatre in Giselle.

Ms. Rimsay was born in Fort Collins, Colorado and trained at Canada's National Ballet School. She joined the National Ballet in 1990 and was promoted to Principal Character Artist in 2012. As a Principal Character Artist, Ms. Rimsay's repertoire includes such roles as Carabosse and Lilac Fairy in The Sleeping Beauty, Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, Madge in La Sylphide and Baba in The Nutcracker. Ms. Rimsay and her husband of 13 years, Mr. Zalewski, have an eight-year-old daughter, Anya.

Christopher Wheeldon's The Winter's Tale opens the 2017/18 season and is onstage November 10 - 19, 2017 at the at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto. The season continues with Nijinsky by John Neumeier, November 22 - 26, 2017.