Maykel Solas joined Ballet San Jose for the 2005-2006 Season. Mr. Solas started his ballet training at the Escuela Provincial de Arte in his hometown of Pinar del Rio and then continued in the Escuela Nacional de Arte (National Arts School) in Havana, Cuba, where he graduated in 1998.

During his years at the Ballet School, he received classes from the most important Cuban teachers such as Alicia Alonso, Loipa Araujo, Josefina Mendez, Orlando Salgado, Martha Garcia, Jose Luis Zamorano and he toured to the dominican Republic.

As a student he also won a silver medal in the 1997 Ballet Competition of Havana.

After Maykel graduated, he joined the Ballet Nacional de Cuba where he stayed for 2 years. In 2000 he danced with the Compañia Nacional de Danza in Mexico City and in 2001 Maykei moved to Peru and obtained a silver medal in the XIIth International Ballet competition of Trujillo.

Most recently, Maykel was a Principal Dancer with the Ballet Municipal de Lima where he has danced all the most important roles in the complete productions of Giselle, Swan Lake, La Bayadere, Le Corsaire, The Nutcracker and other classical and neoclassical repertoire. He has toured with this company to Quito and Guayaquil in Ecuador and to the 1st Ballet Festival of Barranquilla, Colombia in 2005.