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 as we speak, on January 22, 2005, which can be the anniversary of NYCB co-founder George Balanchine’s start.
For her farewell efficiency, she is going to dance the title position in Balanchine’s Firebird, a task that she first carried out throughout the 2001 Spring Season, lower than a 12 months after becoming a member of the Firm.
Bouder was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and started 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 Faculty of American Ballet (SAB), the official faculty of NYCB, she was invited by SAB to proceed her coaching throughout 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 Stay From Lincoln Heart broadcast “New York Metropolis Ballet’s Diamond Challenge: Ten Years of New Choreography” on PBS, dancing in Christopher Wheeldon’s Mercurial Manoeuvres. In 2011, she danced the position of Dewdrop in PBS’ Stay from Lincoln Heart 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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