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Principal Dancers: | |
| Adrian Danchig-Waring Adrian Danchig-Waring was born in San Francisco, California. He began his dance training at the age of 11 at Dance Theatre Seven with David Roxander. Mr. Danchig-Waring entered the School of American Ballet in 2001, and in 2003, he joined New York City Ballet. His repertory includes feature roles in George Balanchine’s The Four Temperaments and Symphony in Three Movements, Peter Martins’ Romeo + Juliet and Swan Lake, and Jerome Robbins’ Fanfare and Glass Pieces. |
| Tyler Angle Tyler Angle was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and began his dance training at the age of nine with Deborah Anthony at the Allegheny Ballet Company. He entered the School of American Ballet in 2001, and while at SAB, he performed Michael Folkine’s Chopiniana as part of New York City Ballet’s winter 2004 season. Mr. Angle joined NYCB in 2004 and has since danced featured roles in George Balanchine’s Liebeslieder Walzer, Jerome Robbins’ Fancy Free and In the Night, Peter Martins’ Swan Lake, Eliot Feld’s Intermesso No. 1 and The Unanswered Question, and Sean Lavery’s Romeo and Juliet. He created the role of The Student in Christopher Wheeldon’s The Nightingale and the Rose. Mr. Angle is a 2002 recipient of the Mae L. Wein Award, a 2003 recipient of the Martin Segal Awards, and a Jerome Robbins' Scholarship recipient. |
| Jason Fowler Jason Fowler is a Soloist at New York City Ballet. Born in Dallas, Texas, he began his ballet training at the age of 11 at the Dallas Ballet Academy. In 1993, Mr. Fowler entered the School of American Ballet (SAB), the official school of New York City Ballet. He became an apprentice with New York City Ballet in August of 1995 and was invited to join the company as a member of the corps de ballet in April 1996. In March 2006, he was promoted to the rank of Soloist. In addition to dancing with New York City Ballet, Mr. Fowler has been a guest teacher at Dallas Ballet Center. |
| Gonzalo Garcia Gonzalo Garcia was born in Zaragoza, Spain, where he trained at Estudio de Danza de Maria de Avila and San Francisco Ballet School and joined San Francisco Ballet in 1998. He was promoted to soloist in 2000 and to Principal Dancer in 2002, and he has performed in major roles throughout the repertory. In 2007, he joined New York City Ballet as a Principal Dancer. He has performed as a guest artist with Boston Ballet, the Rome Opera Ballet, and New York City Ballet. Mr. Garcia’s awards and honors include the Isadora Duncan Award for Best Individual Performance (2004), a Prince Grace Foundation Award (2000), a Lew Christensen Scholarship (1997) and the Gold Medal at the Prix de Lausanne (1995). |
| Craig Hall Craig Hall was born in Maywood, Illinois. He began his dance training at the age of four at Stairway of the Stars with Lois Baumann, then studied with Anna Paskevska at the Chicago Academy of the Arts and Larry Long at the Ruth Page Dance Foundation before entering the School of American Ballet in 1997. While at SAB, Mr. Hall created a feature role in Christopher Wheeldon’s Scénes de Ballet, which premiere during New York City Ballet’s 1999 spring season. Mr. Hall joined NYCB in 2000, ad he was promoted to soloist in 2007. His repertory includes George Balanchine’s The Four Temperaments, Peter Martins’ Romeo + Juliet, Jerome Robbins’ Afternoon of a Faun, The Cage and N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz, and Christopher Wheeldon’s After the Rain. Mr. Hall created roles in Jorm Elo’s Slice to Sharp and Christopher Wheeldon’s Polyphonia. He was a recipient of the Mae L. Wien Award in 1999. |
| Martin Harvey Martin Harvey, a First Soloist with The Royal Ballet, was born in Swindon, Great Britain and trained at the Tanwood School of Dance and The Royal Ballet School. He joined The Royal Ballet in 1996 and was promoted to First Soloist in 2004. He also appeared with Irek Mukhamedov and Company from 1999 to 2001. |
| Céline Cassone Céline Cassone was born in France and studied dance at Conservatoire National d’Avignon. She began dancing with the Deutch Opera of Berlin, and later joined the State Theater of Karlsruhe where she danced the neo-classical repertory of choreographer Germinal Casado. Four years later she joined the Béjart Ballet. In 1999, she joined the Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève and was promoted to Soloist shortly thereafter. |
| Drew Jacoby Drew Jacoby, hailed “guest dance goddess” by Ballet-Dance Magazine, is from Boise, Idaho. She received her training at the School of American Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, and Pacific Northwest Ballet. While at PNB, she performed ballets by George Balanchine, Kent Stowell, Val Caniparoli, and Michael Smuin. At 17 Drew joined Lines Ballet in San Francisco, where she was made a principal dancer and had works created on her by award-winning choreographer Alonzo King. She was a guest star in Sylvie Guillem’s 2005 Japan tour, performing featured roles in ballets by Sir Kenneth MacMillan and Alberto Alonso. Since moving to New York CIty in 2007, she has had works created on her by acclaimed choreographers Lar Lubovitch and Dwight Rhoden. While dancing with Complexions Contemporary Ballet for a portion of 2007, she was featured in William Forsythe’s Herman Schmerman, alongside Desmond Richardson. A Princess Grace Award winner, a Level 1 Award recipient from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, and Dance Magazine’s “It” Girl, Drew is “known for her sumptuous extensions and powerhouse attack.” (Dance Magazine) |
| Maria Kowroski Maria Kowroski was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she began her ballet training at age seven with the School of Grand Rapids Ballet. Ms. Kowroski entered the School of American Ballet in 1992. She joined New York City Ballet in 1995, where she was promoted to soloist in 1997 and to Principal Dancer in 1999. She has danced leading roles in many of the company’s Balanchine and Robbins works, as well as created roles in ballets by Jorma Elo, Peter Martins, Susan Stroman, Christopher Wheeldon, Mauro Bigonzetti, Boris Eifman, Eliot Feld, Bejnamin Millepied, and Helgi Tomasson. Ms. Kowroski has performed as a guest artist with the Maryinsky Ballet and the Munich Ballet, and she received the Princess Grace Award in 1994. |
| Edwaard Liang Edwaard Liang was born in Taipei, Taiwan and raised in Marin County, California where he began his ballet training at the age of five at Marin Ballet. In 1989, Mr. Liang entered the School of American Ballet. He joined New York City Ballet in 1993, and that same year was a medal winner at the Prix de Lausanne International Ballet Competition and a recipient of the Mae L. Wien Award. He was promoted to Soloist in 1998. Mr. Liang danced with NYCB until 2001, when he joined the Broadway cast of Fosse, performing a leading principle role. In 2002, Mr. Liang became a member of acclaimed Nederlands Dans Theater 1, where he danced, choreographed and staged ballets. After returning from Holland, Mr. Liang returned to New York City Ballet. Mr. Liang has also performed as a Guest Artist with varies companies like the Norwegian National Ballet and Complexions. |
| Tiler Peck Tiler Peck was born in Bakersfield, California. She began her dancing training at the age of seven entered the School of American Ballet in the fall of 2003. Ms. Peck joined New York City Ballet in September 2004 and was promoted to soloist in December 2006. Since joining, NYCB she has performed featured roles in Divertimento No. 15, A Mid Summer Night’s Dream; George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker and Symphony in C; Jerome Robbins’ Mother Goose and 2&3 Part Inventions; Peter Martins’ The Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake; Christopher Wheeldon’s Carousel (A Dance); Christopher d’Amboise’s Tribute; and the NYCB premiere of Jerome Robbins’ N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz. Ms. Peck has originated featured roles in Peter Martins’ Friandises and The Red Violin. She is a 2004 recipient of the Princess Grance Foundation Dance Fellowship and the Mae L. Wien Award. |
| Teresa Reichlen Teresa Reichlen was born in Clifton, Virginia. She began her dance training at the age of 10 at the Russell School of Ballet, then entered the School of American Ballet in 1999. In 2001, Ms. Reichlen joined New York City Ballet, where she was promoted to soloist in 2005. Since joining NYCB, she has performed featured roles in many ballets including George Balanchine’s Agon, The Four Temperaments, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rubies, Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2, and Western Symphony; Peter Martins’ The Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake; Jerome Robbins’ Fanfare and The Goldberg Variations; and Christopher Wheeldon’s After the Rain. |
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| Beatriz Stix-Brunell Beatriz Stix-Brunell was born in Miami, Florida in 1993. She trained at the School of American Ballet from 2000 to 2005, and she performed with the NYCB in ballets by George Balanchine, Peter Martins, and Jerome Robbins. In 2005 she was admitted to L'Ecole de Danse de l'Opera de Paris where she danced in the Demonstrations de l'Ecole de Danse, Serge Lifar's "Entre deux Rondes", and Nureyev's "La Bayadere" with the Paris Opera Ballet. Beatriz received the highest score in her division in the yearly exams at the Paris Opera Ballet School. In 2006, she returned to NYC to continue training with her coach Fabrice Herrault. A National Training Scholar at ABT, she danced in Kevin McKenzie's new Production of "The Sleeping Beauty". Beatriz is now at the Fabrice Herrault Studio and spends her summers at the School of American Ballet. She is in the ninth grade at the Nightingale-Bamford School. |
| Rubinald Rofino Pronk Rubinald Rofino Pronk was born and raised in The Hague, Netherlands. He received his training at the Royal Conservatory of Dance and joined the Dutch National Ballet at 16, where he danced as a soloist and performed works by several leading choreographers including William Forsythe, George Balanchine, Martha Graham, Sir Frederic Ashton, and Jacopo Godani, to name a few. In 2006 he joined Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson's Complexions Contemporary Ballet in New York City, where he toured extensively and performed works by Dwight Rhoden and Ulysses Dove. His awards include the prestigious Alexandre Radius Prize for the best dancer of Holland and two nominations for the VSCD "Silver Swan" award for best performance of the year. Elsevier Magazine named him "Holland's sexiest ballet dancer ever." |
| Edward Watson |
| Wendy Whelan Wendy Whelan was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. At the age of three she began taking dance classes with Virgina Wooton, a local teacher, and at age eight she performed as a mouse with the Louisville Ballet in The Nutcracker. Ms. Whelan studied at the Louisville Ballet Academy and the School of American Ballet before joining New York City Ballet in 1986. She was promoted to soloist in 1989 and to Principal Dancer in 1991. At NYCB, Ms. Whelan has danced featured roles in nearly all the Balanchine repertory, as well as in many ballets by Jerome Robbins and Peter Martins, and she created leading roles in ballets by Robbins, Martins, William Forsythe, Alexei Ratmansky, Jorma Elo, Ulysses Dove, Edwaard Liang, Albert Evans, Kevin O’Day, Christopher D’Amboise, and Boris Eifman. Ms. Whelan has created leading roles in six ballets by Christopher Wheeldon, and she has performed as a guest artist with the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden and the Maryinsky Ballet at the Maryinsky Theater. |
