[citation needed] In 1990, he was admitted as a student at the Alejo Carpentier Elementary Ballet School in Havana, Cuba.
Was trained by Rolando Sarabia (his father), Alicia Alonso, Lázaro Carreño and Magaly Suarez, at the National Ballet School in Havana.
Sarabita was so famous among young people in Cuba,[5] that according to Sarah Kaufman of The Washington Post his fans "glued him the suffix of endearment, -ita, onto his name like a kiss.
[1] Rolando defected from Cuba in 2005, a year after his brother Daniel Sarabia, also a former dancer with Cuban National Ballet, entered the United States via Mexico.
[7] He has performed with renowned dancers as Maya Plisetskaya, Patrick Dupont, Farouk Ruzimatov, Alicia Alonso, Tamara Rojo, among many others.