New York Metropolis Ballet (NYCB) has promoted Emma Von Enck to Principal Dancer. The promotion was made on Might 16, by NYCB Inventive Director Jonathan Stafford and Affiliate Inventive Director Wendy Whelan, following a efficiency of George Balanchine’s “Rubies” from Jewels by which Von Enck carried out the main feminine function. Later within the night, she additionally carried out a featured function in Amy Corridor Garner’s Beneath, There Is Mild, which Von Enck originated for the ballet’s world premiere efficiency at NYCB’s 2024 Spring Gala earlier in Might.
In the course of the Firm’s 2024 Spring Season, Von Enck has debuted in main roles in Balanchine’s Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet (Third Motion), Justin Peck’s Yr of the Rabbit and Alexei Ratmansky’s Footage at an Exhibition. As well as, this spring, Von Enck has reprised featured roles in varied works by Balanchine (Symphony in C [Third Movement] and Symphony in Three Actions), Justin Peck (Pulcinella Variations), and Gianna Reisen (Play Time). She is scheduled to make one last debut this spring, because the Butterfly in Balanchine’s A Midsummer Evening’s Dream.
Von Enck was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and commenced her dance coaching on the Royal College of Ballet. She later studied on the Cleveland College of Dance, the Cleveland Ballet Conservatory, and attended summer time programs on the College of American Ballet (SAB), enrolling as a full-time scholar at SAB for the 2012 winter time period. In August of 2016, she turned an apprentice with NYCB. She joined the Firm as a member of the corps de ballet in August 2017 and was promoted to Soloist in January 2022.
As a member of the Firm, Von Enck has carried out featured roles in quite a lot of works by Balanchine, Peter Martins, Justin Peck, Alysa Pires, Ratmansky, Jerome Robbins, Reisen, and Christopher Wheeldon. As well as, she has originated featured roles in works by Silas Farley, Tiler Peck, Reisen, and Jamar Roberts.
In 2016, as a scholar at SAB, Von Enck acquired the Mae L. Wien Award for Excellent Promise.
