William Herrera Gutiérrez is a ballet dancer and teacher from Managua, Nicaragua. He studied and graduated as one of the best of his generation from the National Ballet School of Nicaragua. At the age of 9, he started dancing in the Gran Ballet Quezalnahuatl, a traditional Nicaraguan dance company, and started ballet professionally at the age of 15. After graduating, he started dancing professionally as a soloist dancer in the Compañía Ballet de Nicaragua under the direction of William Herrera and quickly became a principal dancer, interpretating leading roles in the classical repertoire and contemporary works by Eduardo Blanco. William joined Mystic Ballet in 2013 under the direction of Goran Subotic and danced for two full seasons performing leading roles of classical repertoire and contemporary works by Sergei Vanaev, Gabrielle Lamb, Laura Edson and Austin Mckormick. He has been a guest principal dancer in companies in Central America performing classicals such as The Nutcracker,Carmen, Le Bayadere, and Swan Lake and performed in The Nutcracker production in Costa Rica under the direction of the former American Ballet principal Wes Chapman. In 2022, he was invited by the artistic director Jan Fousek of the Moravian Ballet Olomouc in Czech Republic to join the company as a soloist where he performed leading roles in classical repertoire such as The Nutcracker, Le Bayadere and Giselle by Michal Štipa and in contemporary works: Solo for Three by Pter Zuska, Bolero by Riccardo de Nigris and Blood Wedding by Alena Peškova. He has performed in several galas in Germany, Serbia, Hungary, USA, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Panama.