Spanish-Cuban Ricardo Castellanos is a Principal dancer with Norwegian National Ballet. He began dancing at the age of nine with La Companya Juvenil de Ballet Clàssic de Catalunya in Barcelona before continuing his studies with his father, Rodolfo Castellanos. He studied at the The Royal Ballet School in London and performed as a student in ballets including Don Quixote, The Sleeping Beauty, Giselle and Le Corsaire before joining Norwegian National Ballet 2 in 2016 and joined he main company the following year.

His repertory includes: Rothbart in Holmes’s Swan Lake; the Nutcracker Prince in Boyadjiev’s The Nutcracker; the leading male role in Balanchine’s Allegro Brillante and Soloist in the first movement of Balanchine’s Symphony in C; Prince Albrecht in Giselle; Romeo in the balcony pas de deux from Romeo and Juliet and Prince Siegfried in a pas de deux from Swan Lake. He has also danced in MacMillan’s Manon and Kylián's One of a Kind.