In the fall of 2017, Leyland became the resident choreographer, in 2019 the Director of Dance, and in 2020 the Chair of Dance at the Harlem School of the Arts. Ms. Mazzo has been a Trustee of The George Balanchine Trust since 1987. During her 16 years as a member of New York City Ballet, Ms. Pilarre appeared in numerous works by the Company’s founding choreographers, George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. Ms. King joined New York City Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet in June 2004 and was promoted to soloist in February 2013. Among the ballets in which she performed soloist parts were Balanchine’s Coppélia, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Jewels, Scotch Symphony, Chaconne, Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. In addition, Mr. Garcia created the roles of Nutcracker Prince in Mr. Tomasson’s Nutcracker and Aminta in Mark Morris’s Sylvia, and originated a role in Mr. Wheeldon’s Continuum. 2 (1973), Coppélia (1974), Union Jack (1976), Vienna Waltzes (1977), and Ballo Della Regina (1978). Ms. Stafford was named NYCB’s Janice Levin Dancer for the 2000-01 season. His first story ballet, The Overcoat (after Nikolai Gogol), won 2 ‘Golden Sofit’ awards including Best Ballet of the Year, and a ‘Golden Mask’ Russia’s highest theatrical prize. I love to see him flawlessly He later studied at Interlochen Arts Academy, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Miami City Ballet, the School of American Ballet, Creative Outlet Dance Theatre of Brooklyn, The Ailey School and Ballet Divertimento in Montreal, Canada. Ms. Pilarre appeared in the original productions of Balanchine’s Harlequinade (1965), Jewels (1967), Symphony in Three Movements (1972), Danses Concertantes (1972), Le Tombeau de Couperin (1975), and Union Jack (1976). She joined the School’s permanent faculty in September 2018. The ballet was performed by an all-SAB student cast at the Balanchine Celebration and at the School’s 1993 Workshop Performances. Peter Martins invited Ms. Abergel to become an apprentice with New York City Ballet in 1990, and she joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet in 1991. Balanchine choreographed solo roles on her in Don Quixote, Raymonda Variations, Harlequinade, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Ms. Pilarre set this version of Symphonie Concertante on ABT in 1994. His Balanchine repertoire includes Tarantella pas de deux’, Steadfast Tin Soldier, Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux, main roles in ‘Rubies’, Valse Fantaisie and Allegro Brilliante, ‘Melancholic’ from The Four Temperaments, second movement of Western Symphony, and various solo parts from The Nutcracker (among others). Mr. Peiffer attended the School of American Ballet’s 1999 and 2000 Summer Courses before enrolling as a full-time student in the fall of 2000. Teaching and dancing in this deceivingly simple Jerome Robbins ballet, according to Ballet Master and former NYCB dancer Craig Hall, requires a particular reflectiveness and focus to fully embody its sensual atmosphere where two dancers share a moment of discovery. Ms. Killian originated a principal role in Jerome Robbins’s Ives, Songs in 1988. Suki Schorer has set ballets (or ballet excerpts) choreographed by Balanchine for SAB’s Workshop Performances annually since 1973. Leyland became an adjunct instructor for NYU Tisch for the 2020-21 school year. Mr. Simmons is also a graduate of the Workshop in Business Opportunites Program and a member of the School of American Ballet’s Alumni Advisory Committee on Diversity and Inclusion. Jean-Pierre Frohlich, Espen Giljane, Craig Hall, Jonathan Stafford, Kathleen Tracey, Wendy Whelan. Beginning at age 14, Ms. Ash attended SAB’s five-week Summer Course for three consecutive summers before accepting an invitation to live in the School’s on-site residence and train as a year-round student in SAB’s Advanced Division. During his performing career with New York City Ballet, Mr. Stafford danced featured roles in George Balanchine’s Firebird, The Four Temperaments, Divertimento No. Ms. Abergel performed featured and soloist roles in a number of works by George Balanchine, including The Nutcracker®, Firebird, Coppélia,  Swan Lake, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. During his career with NYCB, Mr. Hall danced featured roles in numerous ballets by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, and Peter Martins, and has also originated roles in works by Justin Peck, Christopher Wheeldon, Alexei Ratmansky, Benjamin Millepied, Jorma Elo, and Lynne Taylor-Corbett, among others. Ms. Hyltin was a Teaching Fellow during SAB’s 2014-15 and 2015-16 Winter Terms and joined the School’s permanent faculty in September 2016. The Laugh Out Loud! Hall was born in Maywood, Illinois, and started dance training at age 4. Upon retiring from performing in 2009, Ms. Abergel joined SAB’s faculty and became NYCB’s Assistant Children’s Repertory Directory. 15, Episodes, The Four Temperaments, George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker®, Haieff Divertimento, ‘Emeralds’ from Jewels, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mozartiana, Prodigal Son, Robert Schumann’s “Davidsbündlertänze,” Symphony in C, Symphony in Three Movements, Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. Craig Hall (born c. 1979) is an American ballet dancer. She started as a guest teacher at the School of American Ballet while still a fairly new corps dancer in the Company and she also took class with several of the founding teachers of the School. [14] Outside of ballet, Hall is a photographer. She returned to the U.S. in 2005 to join the California-based Alonzo King LINES Ballet, originating roles in new works by Mr. King including Handel and Migration and touring with the company in the U.S. and abroad. He attended the School of American Ballet’s 1996 and 1997 Summer Courses before enrolling as a full time student at SAB in the fall of 1997. At age 14, he entered the Chicago Academy for the Arts. Noah was active in the choreographic processes at the Frankfurt Ballet, creating considerable solo and pas de deux material contained in some Forsythe pieces. Craig is one of my favorite NYCB dancers. Ms. Hyltin was NYCB’s Janice Levin Dancer Honoree for 2005-2006. 2, Union Jack, and La Valse; August Bournonville’s Bournonville Divertissements (Ballabile from Napoli) and Flower Festival in Genzano Pas de Deux; Peter Martins’ Fearful Symmetries, Les Gentilhommes, Romeo + Juliet (Romeo), The Sleeping Beauty (Jesters) and Swan Lake (Neapolitan); and Jerome Robbins’ 2&3 Part Inventions, The Concert, and Les Noces. He has staged Peter Martins’s Les Gentilhommes in both 2011 (with Albert Evans) and 2016; and for SAB’s 2013 Workshop he staged Balanchine’s Le Tombeau de Couperin with NYCB Ballet Mistress Rosemary Dunleavy. She served as President of the Jury of the 2014 Prix de Lausanne international ballet competition. Noah performed as a child in The Nightingale and Raft of Medusa with the First All Children’s Theater just opposite Lincoln Center. He danced with the New York City Ballet as a soloist until 2016 then became a ballet master, and was one of the company interim leaders between late 2017 and early 2019. He was the first American choreographer ever invited to create a world premier for the Kirov Ballet at the Mariinsky Theater. She also trained at Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts before enrolling at the School of American Ballet from 2011-2015. Ms. Ash resides in New York City with her husband and their two young children. Ballet master Craig Hall (right) leads the dance section of the Puma x NYC Ballet workout at Lincoln Center Plaza. Ms. Stafford’s repertoire at New York City Ballet includes principal roles in works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Peter Martins, Alexei Ratmansky, and Christopher Wheeldon, among others. Explore their biographies and performance photos; learn more about their repertoire with ABT, career milestones and quotes. Spearheaded by Beth Craig Hall and headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky in St. Matthew's Station, DCT opened its doors in July of 2018. Ms. Hyltin originated the role of Juliet in the 2007 NYCB world premiere of Peter Martins’s Romeo + Juliet and danced the role of the Sylph in the NYCB premiere of La Sylphide. In 2000, he was promoted to soloist, and in 2002 to principal dancer. Anatomy of a Dance Anatomy of a Dance: Craig Hall on AFTERNOON OF A FAUN. His film work includes Columbia Pictures’ Center Stage. In 2005, he retired from New York City Ballet after a 22-year career with the company. Well versed in the complex improvisation techniques Forsythe developed, Noah was chosen as an ambassador to demonstrate examples of these for the William Forsythe Improvisation Technologies CD-ROM. Mr. Stafford became only the third Artistic Director in SAB history in February 2019. Take class with Wendy Whelan. 3, Western Symphony, George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker®, Union Jack, Symphony in 3 Movements, and in Jerome Robbins’s Goldberg Variations and The Four Seasons; and Peter Martins’s Eight Easy Pieces and The Sleeping Beauty. Noah also choreographed for the hit TV show Born to Dance in Israel and collaborated with aerial ballerina Erika Lemay for Cirque du Soleil and her feature show Animus Femina. During 18 years as a member of New York City Ballet, Ms. Abergel performed in numerous works by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. Take ballet class with Craig Hall, formerly a soloist at New York City Ballet, Craig is currently NYCB Ballet Master and assistant to world-renowned NYCB Resident-Choreographer Justin Peck. Noah earned widespread critical acclaim for his speed, dynamism and technical precision, plus his ability to excel in the classical ballet genre as well as inspire contemporary choreographers. She first performed with New York City Ballet at the age of eight when the Company brought The Nutcracker on tour to the Chicago Opera House. Ms. Pilarre joined SAB’s permanent faculty in 1986. Sheryl Ware began training in her hometown of San Mateo, California, with Robert and Carolyn Hanlin when she was 7. Ms Ware retired from dancing in 1980. ... Advanced Ballet with Craig Hall. 2, The Four Temperaments, La Sonnambula, Stars and Stripes, Raymonda Variations, and La Source. This week, we talk to soloist Craig Hall. Jean-Pierre Frohlich, Craig Hall, Lisa Jackson, Glenn Keenan, Rebecca Krohn, Christine Redpath, Kathleen Tracey. Mr. Hall was promoted to soloist in May 2007. She was named a soloist in 1971. Meagan Mann was reared in Lakewood and Howell, New Jersey, and began her ballet training at More Than Dance in Jackson, New Jersey. He also originated featured roles in Adam Hendrickson’s Flit of Fury – The Monarch, Justin Peck’s ‘Rōdē,ō: Four Dance Episodes, and Peter Martins’ Ocean’s Kingdom. Mr. Stafford became an apprentice with New York City Ballet in October 1998 and joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet in February 1999. Kay Mazzo was born in Chicago, where she received early training from Bernadine Hayes. Beginning at the age of 13, he attended three consecutive SAB Summer Courses before enrolling as a fulltime student in the fall of 1996. Sterling Hyltin was born in Amarillo, Texas. They live in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. Born in Maywood, Illinois, Craig Hall began his dance training at the age of four at Stairway of the Stars with Lois Baumann. [10] Hall joined School of American Ballet's faculty in 2018, after staging Peck's In Creases for the school's workshop performances. Ms. Pilarre also collaborated with Suzanne Farrell on the staging of La Valse and La Source for Suzanne Farrell Ballet’s 2005 performances at The Kennedy Center. The company has toured to Europe, Australia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Canada, and throughout the United States, with celebrated appearances at Jacob’s Pillow, Vail International Dance Festival, and in New York City and Washington, D.C. One performance of Mr. Simmons noted that he was “vibrant in his solo, whipping off multiple pirouettes…,” and “he added powerful turns and jumps while remaining sensitive to the otherwise gentle ending.” Leyland is also a sought after teacher having taught at notable institutions like the Dance Theatre of Harlem, Harlem School for the Arts, Steps on Broadway, NYU, and the Ailey School. She participated in SAB’s National Audition Tour as a guest adjudicator to recruit students for the School’s summer training programs from 2018 to 2020. 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