He was promoted to soloist in February 2013 and to principal dancer in May 2016. Spartak Hoxha is a member of New York City Ballet's corps de ballet. And the Ashley Bouder Project. I, and it appeared the near sell-out house, left the theater flying. Ashley Bouder 1,087 views Mr. Villarini-Velez began studying at the School of American Ballet (SAB), the official school of New York City Ballet, during the 2008 summer course, which he attended again during the summer of 2010 before enrolling as a student that fall. Barak Ballet, of LA. It all flows naturally. In the spring of 2000, Mr. Veyette became an apprentice with New York City Ballet, and later that season he joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet. In August 2010, Mr. Hoxha became an apprentice with NYCB and the following August he joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet. At 26, not only is she a principal dancer with New York City Ballet, Lauren is also a rising choreographer, having already created two pieces for her home company. Ashley Bouder is a highly respected New York City Ballet principal dancer not heretofore known for her choreographic talent. Veyette’s The Musician had to be understated perfection, and was. In addition to choreographing her own piece, Bouder performed in a contemporary dance that was so brilliantly crafted I forgot my usual prejudice against the dance’s style (explanation to follow), and she and her ensemble ended the program with a delightful rendering of Susan Stroman’s delightful Blossom Got Kissed. As a student at SAB, Ms. Hod had the opportunity to dance in many ballets with NYCB, including George Balanchine’s Coppélia, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker®, and Peter Martins’ The Sleeping Beauty. But, man, she wipes out a lot. In Pursuit Of, Duet, Blossom Got Kissed. New York City Ballet's Ashley Bouder received the Benois de la Danse for her performance of Swanilda in Coppélia.She shared the female dancer prize with Staattsballet Berlin principal Elisa Carillo Cabrera, for her star turn in Nacho Duato's Romeo and Juliet.The male dancer award went to Royal Ballet's Vadim Muntagirov for … Alexa Maxwell is a member of New York City Ballet’s corps de ballet. In September 2009, Mr. Stanley became an apprentice with NYCB, and joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet in September 2010. Olivia MacKinnon is a member of the New York City Ballet. Welcome to your first day at ballet school! Ashley Bouder, 32, a dance with the New York City Ballet since 2000, is six and a half months pregnant with her first child with fiance, finance worker Peter de Florio. While at SAB, he was the awarded the Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists and the Mae L. Wein Award for Outstanding Promise. Oddly smashing. Ashley Bouder, a principal ballerina with the New York City Ballet, is among the finest ballet dancers in the world. She has danced featured roles in Balanchine and Martins ballets and also originated roles in new ballets by various choreographers. Move: The Company, started by a Canadian choreographer, Joshua Beamish. It’s consistently intriguing, constantly mesmerizing, and not at all limited to whirling motion. The only thing regrettable about it is that unless some angel decides to fund another round of performances, the engagement was two nights only, and ended with the performance I saw Saturday night. The result is a miraculous synergy of music and dance that does exactly what the choreographer apparently wanted: to show the inspirations underlying the movement themes, but to not be bound by them, and in the process to create a unity from diversity, pushing cultural barriers aside (perhaps literally symbolized by pushing some of the dancers to the stage floor, a recurring sequence that ultimately forms the dance’s final image). In August 2012, she became an apprentice with NYCB and joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet in December 2012. Put on your ballet shoes and let’s master your basics with author and New York City Ballet principal Ashley Bouder. He attended summer courses at the School of American Ballet, NYCB’s official school, in 2014 and 2015 before entering SAB full-time for the 2015 winter term. She’s standing alone in a rehearsal studio in front of 20 or so dance journalists and several funders of her small self-titled ballet company… Duet is a dance for two women – and with dancers the caliber of Bouder and Mearns (who rarely appear together in any one piece), one would expect nothing less than brilliance. It’s a thrilling piece of music to just close your eyes and listen to – but if you closed your eyes you’d miss its reason for being. As, clearly, did the rest of the Symphony Space audience. He continued his training at the International Ballet Academy in Apex, North Carolina from 2010 to 2013. Andrew Veyette was born in Denver, Colorado, and began his dance training at the age of 9, studying with Betty Downs at Dance Arts in Visalia, California.