New York Metropolis Ballet (NYCB) Principal Dancer Ashley Bouder will give her remaining efficiency with NYCB on February 13, following a 25-year profession with the Firm, together with 20 years as a Principal Dancer. Bouder was promoted to Principal Dancer 20 years in the past at the moment, on January 22, 2005, which can also be the anniversary of NYCB co-founder George Balanchine’s start.
For her farewell efficiency, she’s going to dance the title position in Balanchine’s Firebird, a job that she first carried out through the 2001 Spring Season, lower than a yr after becoming a member of the Firm.
Bouder was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and commenced her ballet coaching on the age of six on the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet with Marcia Dale Weary. After attending the 1999 Summer time Program on the College of American Ballet (SAB), the official college of NYCB, she was invited by SAB to proceed her coaching through the Winter Session. As a pupil, Bouder carried out featured roles in Balanchine’s Danses Concertantes and Stars and Stripes for SAB’s 2000 workshop performances.
Bouder was named an apprentice with NYCB in June 2000, and have become a member of the corps de ballet that October. She was promoted to the rank of Soloist in February 2004, and in January 2005, Bouder was promoted to Principal Dancer.
Since becoming a member of NYCB, she has carried out featured roles in quite a few ballets by Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Mauro Bigonzetti, Christopher d’Amboise, Jorma Elo, Justin Peck, Alexei Ratmansky and Christopher Wheeldon, amongst others. As well as, Bouder has originated featured roles in works by Kyle Abraham, Warren Carlyle, Albert Evans, Douglas Lee, Edwaard Liang, Wayne McGregor, Susan Stroman, Richard Tanner and Troy Schumacher, amongst others.
In 2002, Bouder appeared within the nationally televised Dwell From Lincoln Middle broadcast “New York Metropolis Ballet’s Diamond Venture: Ten Years of New Choreography” on PBS, dancing in Christopher Wheeldon’s Mercurial Manoeuvres. In 2011, she danced the position of Dewdrop in PBS’ Dwell from Lincoln Middle telecast of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker, which was additionally screened in film theaters around the globe.
Bouder was the recipient of a 2019 Benois de la Danse award for finest feminine dancer. She additionally acquired SAB’s Mae L. Wien Award for Excellent Promise in 2000, and was the 2002-2003 recipient of the Janice Levin Award, which is bestowed yearly on a promising member of NYCB’s corps de ballet.
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