Michael Terrace

Michael Santiago Gutierrez (December 30, 1925 – March 16, 2018), better known as Michael Terrace, was an American ballroom and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, actor, dance consultant, and writer. His stage and subsequent dance career spanned a total of 60 years, during which he made innumerable contributions to ballroom dancing. Terrace played Bernardo in West Side Story with the national company and was picked out of 2,500 ballet dancers to be at the Metropolitan Opera House to perform with the Bolshoi Ballet Company of Russia.