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JOO WON AHN

Principal Dancer

Joo Won Ahn is originally from Wonju, Korea and began his formal training in 2006 at Y.J. Ballet People Academy and Sunhwa Arts School. In 2012, he became a student at Korea National University of Arts in Seoul where his performance credits include Marius Petipa’s The Sleeping Beauty, Paquita, Raymonda, La Bayadère and Don Quixote.  Ahn won the Silver Medal at the Korean International Ballet Competition and 3rd Prize at the 2012 Varna International Ballet Competition in Bulgaria. Ahn was invited to join ABT Studio Company in 2013 after winning the Gold Medal at Youth America Grand Prix in New York City.

Ahn joined ABT as an apprentice in January 2014 and the corps de ballet in June 2014.  He was promoted to Soloist in September 2019 and appointed a Principal Dancer in September 2020. His repertoire with the Company includes the title role in Apollo, Solor in La Bayadère, a Cavalier in Cinderella, Ali and Lankendem in Le Corsaire, Albrecht in Giselle, Persian Man in The Golden Cockerel, the Nutcracker Prince, the Russian Dance and Spanish Dance in Alexei Ratmansky’s The Nutcracker, Dionysius in Of Love and Rage, Winter in The Seasons, Bluebird, the Italian Prince and a Fairy Cavalier in Ratmansky’s The Sleeping Beauty, Neapolitan Dance in Swan Lake, leading roles in AFTERITE, The Brahms-Haydn Variations, Garden Blue, Serenade after Plato’s Symposium, Theme and Variations and Thirteen Diversions, and featured roles in AfterEffect, Bach Partita and In the Upper Room.

He created Murasaki in A Gathering of Ghosts and roles in After You, New American Romance and Songs of Bukovina.

ISABELLA BOYLSTON

Principal Dancer

Born in Sun Valley, Idaho, Isabella Boylston began dancing at the age of three. While training at the Academy of Colorado Ballet, she won the gold medal in 2001 at the Youth America Grand Prix Finals in New York City. In 2002, she began training at the Harid Conservatory in Boca Raton, Florida, on a full scholarship.

Boylston joined the ABT Studio Company in 2005, the main Company as an apprentice in May 2006 and the corps de ballet in March 2007. She was promoted to Soloist in June 2011 and to Principal Dancer in August 2014.

Her repertory with the Company includes Nikiya and Gamzatti in La Bayadère, the Ballerina in The Bright Stream, Fairy Godmother and the Fairy Summer in Frederick Ashton’s Cinderella, Moss in James Kudelka’s Cinderella, Aurora in Coppélia, Gulnare and an Odalisque in Le Corsaire, Chloe in Daphnis and Chloe, Kitri and a flower girl in Don Quixote, the second girl in Fancy Free, Lise in La Fille mal gardée, the title role in Alexei Ratmansky’s Firebird, Giselle, the peasant pas de deux and Moyna in Giselle, the title role in Jane Eyre, Manon and Lescaut’s Mistress in Manon, Clara the Princess in The Nutcracker, Olga in Onegin, Other Dances, Juliet and a Harlot in Romeo and Juliet, Princess Aurora and Princess Florine in Ratmansky’s The Sleeping Beauty, Princess Florine and the Fairy of Fervor in The Sleeping Beauty, Odette/Odile, the pas de trois and the Polish Princess in Swan Lake, the Mazurka in Les Sylphides, Sylvia and Persephone in Sylvia, the Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, the lead in Theme and Variations, Princess Tea Flower in Whipped Cream, leading roles in AFTERITE, Bach Partita, Ballo della Regina, The Brahms-Haydn Variations, Désir, Everything Doesn’t Happen at Once, Her Notes, From Here On Out, Let Me Sing Forevermore, Monotones I, Songs of Bukovina, Symphonie Concertante, Symphony in C and With a Chance of Rain, and featured roles in After You, Birthday Offering, Brief Fling, Deuce Coupe, Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes, In the Upper Room, Gong, The Leaves Are Fading and Sinfonietta.

Boylston created Columbine in Alexei Ratmansky’s Harlequinade, The Spirit of the Corn in Ratmansky’s The Seasons, the Diamond Fairy in Ratmansky’s The Sleeping Beauty, leading roles in Ratmansky’s Chamber Symphony, Christopher Wheeldon’s Thirteen Diversions and Gemma Bond’s A Time There Was, and featured roles in Lauri Stallings’ Citizen, Ratmansky’s Dumbarton and Demis Volpi’s Private Light.

Boylston won the 2009 Princess Grace Award and was nominated for the 2010 Prix Benois de la Danse. In 2011 she received the Clive Barnes Award. She was the recipient of the 2014 Annenberg Fellowship. 

She has appeared as a guest artist with the Mariinsky Ballet in St. Petersburg and the Royal Danish Ballet.

CASSANDRA TRENARY

Principal Dancer

Cassandra Trenary, a native of Georgia, began her dance training at Lawrenceville School of Ballet. She joined the school’s company, Southern Ballet Theatre, in 2006 under the direction of Phyllis Allen and went on to receive additional training at Southeast Regional Ballet Association conventions and Brookwood High School’s Dance department.

Trenary trained at American Ballet Theatre’s Summer Intensive programs as a National Training Scholar and went on to join the ABT Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School in 2009. In 2011, she was invited to join ABT II (now ABT Studio Company) on their European tour as an apprentice. In April 2011, Trenary was offered an apprenticeship with ABT and, in November of that year, a corps de ballet contract. She was promoted to Soloist in August 2015 and appointed a Principal Dancer in September 2020.

Her repertory with ABT includes His Loss in AfterEffect, Calliope in Apollo, Gamzatti and a Shade in La Bayadère, the Fairy Spring in Cinderella, an Odalisque in Le Corsaire, Lycenion in Daphnis and Chloe, the Dryad Queen, a Flower Girl and Amour in Don Quixote, The Maiden in Firebird, the peasant pas de deux in Giselle, Golden Cockerel in The Golden Cockerel, Columbine in Harlequinade, Mrs. Fairfax and Bertha Mason in Jane Eyre, Lescaut’s Mistress in Manon, Columbine, the Chinese Dance and one of the Nutcracker’s Sisters in Alexei Ratmansky’s The Nutcracker, Olga in Onegin, a Carnival Dancer in Othello, the Youngest Sister in Pillar of Fire, a Harlot in Romeo and Juliet, The Rose in The Seasons, Princess Aurora, the Diamond Fairy and the Fairy Canri qui chante (Canary) in The Sleeping Beauty, the Young Girl in Le Spectre de las Rose, the pas de trois, a little swan and the Polish Princess in Swan Lake, Ceres in Sylvia, Princess Praline in Whipped Cream, leading roles in Chamber Symphony, I Feel The Earth Move, Souvenir d’un lieu cher and Symphonic Variations and featured roles in After You, Bach Partita, Deuce Coupe, Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes, In the Upper Room, Private Light, Raymonda Divertissements and Sinfonietta.  She created a Consort in A Gathering of Ghosts, Bacchante in The Seasons, Princess Florine in Ratmansky’s The Sleeping Beauty, leading roles in AFTERITE, Her Notes and A Time There Was and a featured role in Dream within a Dream (deferred). For ABT’s Innovation Initiative, she was featured in Zhong-Jing Fang’s The Final Frame (2011) and Gemma Bond’s Me and Mine (2014).

Trenary was named a 2011 National YoungArts Foundation Winner and became a 2011 U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts nominee. She is also the recipient of a 2015 Princess Grace Dance Honorarium. In 2017, Trenary received the Annenberg Fellowship for Dance.

CORY STEARNS

Principal Dancer

Born on Long Island, New York, Cory Stearns began his classical training at the age of five with Mme. Valia Seiskaya at the Seiskaya Ballet. At age fifteen, he participated in the Youth America Grand Prix and was offered a full scholarship to The Royal Ballet School in London. Stearns performed in Madrid, Moscow, Milan, Düsseldorf and London while at The Royal, and appeared with Kylie Minogue in her music video Chocolate in 2004.  Upon graduating from The Royal Ballet School with honors, he received, for the second year, the Dame Ruth Railton Award for excellence in dance.

Stearns joined the American Ballet Theatre Studio Company in September 2004, the main Company as an apprentice in January 2005 and became a member of the corps de ballet in January 2006. He was appointed a Soloist in January 2009 and a Principal Dancer in January 2011.

Stearns repertory with the Company includes The Man in AfterEffect, The Awakening Pas de Deux, Solor in La Bayadère, The Ballet Dancer in The Bright Stream, a featured role in Brief Fling, Her Prince Charming in Cinderella, Conrad in Le Corsaire, Daphnis in Daphnis and Chloe, Basilio and Espada in Don Quixote, Oberon in The Dream, a leading role in Études, Second Sailor in Fancy Free, Colas in La Fille mal gardée, Kaschei in Firebird, Baron in Gaîté Parisienne, Albrecht in Giselle, Astrologer in The Golden Cockerel, Grand Pas Classique, Her Lover in Jardin aux Lilas, Edward Rochester in Jane Eyre, Armand Duval in Lady of the Camellias, The Leaves Are Fading pas de deux, Des Grieux in Manon, Beliaev in A Month in the Country, His Friend in The Moor’s Pavane, the Nutcracker-Prince in Alexei Ratmansky’s The Nutcracker, Sergei in On the Dnieper, Onegin in Onegin, Iago and a Carnival Dancer in Othello, Other Dances, Man From the House Opposite in Pillar of Fire,  

 Romeo and Paris in Romeo and Juliet, the Terrestrial in Shadowplay, Prince Désiré, the Celtic Prince and a Fairy Knight in The Sleeping Beauty, Prince Désiré in Ratmansky’s The Sleeping Beauty, Prince Siegfried and von Rothbart in Swan Lake, James in La Sylphide, the Poet in Les Sylphides, Some Assembly Required, Orion and Apollo in Sylvia, Prospero in The Tempest, Prince Coffee in Whipped Cream, leading roles in Allegro Brillante, The Brahms-Haydn Variations, Duo Concertant, Études, Everything Doesn’t Happen at Once, The Leaves Are Fading, Mozartiana, Monotones II, Rabbit and Rogue, Raymonda Divertissements, Symphony in C, Thirteen Diversions and With a Chance of Rain and featured roles in Citizen, Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes, Duets, In the Upper Room and Overgrown Path.

Stearns created Mithridates in Of Love and Rage, leading roles in AFTERITE, I Feel The Earth Move, Her Notes, Piano Concerto #1 and A Time There Was, and featured roles in From Here On Out,  One of Three and Private Light.

Stearns won the 2009 Erik Bruhn Prize for the best male dancer.

CALVIN ROYAL III

Principal Dancer

Calvin Royal III began his formal dance training under the direction of Suzanne Pomerantzeff and Patricia L. Paige at the Pinellas County Center for the Arts at Gibbs High School in St. Petersburg, Florida at age 14. He was a finalist at the Youth America Grand Prix International Ballet Competition in April 2006 and joined the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at American Ballet Theatre in September 2006. Royal was the recipient of the Ethan Stiefel Scholarship in 2006 and 2007.  While at the ABT JKO School, Royal appeared in original works by Raymond Lukens and Jessica Lang.

Royal joined ABT II (now ABT Studio Company) in December 2007 and danced leading roles, including Prince Siegfried in the White Swan and Black Swan pas de deux from Swan Lake, George Balanchine’s Allegro Brillante, Jerome Robbins’ Interplay, Antony Tudor’s Continuo, and works by Edward Liaang, Aszure Barton, Jodie Gates and Brian Reeder. 

Royal joined the main Company as an apprentice in October 2010 and the corps de ballet in 

April 2011.  He was appointed a Soloist in September 2017 and promoted to Principal Dancer in September 2020.  His repertoire with the Company includes the title role in Apollo, a Cavalier in Cinderella, Dorcon in Daphnis and Chloe, Espada in Don Quixote, the third sailor in Fancy Free, Persian Man in The Golden Cockerel, Pierrot in Alexei Ratmansky’s Harlequinade, Reverend Brocklehurst in Jane Eyre, Lescaut in Manon, the Recruit in Ratmansky’s The Nutcracker, a Carnival Dancer in Othello, Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet, the Spanish Prince and Prince Fortune in The Sleeping Beauty, von Rothbart, Benno and the Spanish Dance in Swan Lake, Jaseion in Sylvia, Prince Coffee and Prince Cocoa in Whipped Cream, leading roles in Bach Partita, The Brahms-Haydn Variations, Her Notes, Piano Concerto #1, Seven Sonatas, Symphonic Variations and Thirteen Diversions and featured roles in AfterEffect, Black Tuesday, Clear, Company B, Deuce Coupe, Duets, In the Upper Room, Raymonda Divertissements and Sinfonietta.

He created the North Wind in A Gathering of Ghosts, Bacchus in The Seasons, a Fairy Cavalier in Ratmansky’s The Sleeping Beauty, leading roles in AFTERITE, Serenade after Plato’s Symposium and Songs of Bukovina and featured roles in After You, Aftereffect (first production), AfterEffect, Dream within a Dream (deferred), New American Romance and Praedicere.

Royal was named a finalist at the 2013 Clive Barnes Awards and, in 2014, was awarded the Leonore Annenberg Fellowship to further his artistic development. Royal has been featured in global campaigns for GAP, Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein, Target, Ralph Lauren and Canali. He was featured in the 2019 Pirelli Calendar alongside Misty Copeland, photographed by famed Scottish fashion, celebrity, and art photographer Albert Watson.

Royal was named the 2020-2021 Artist-in-Residence for the Vail Dance Festival in Vail, Colorado.

JAMES WHITESIDE

Principal Dancer

Born in Fairfield, Connecticut, James Whiteside began his training at age nine at the D’Valda & Sirico Dance and Music Centre, where guest faculty included Charles Kelley, Franco De Vita and Raymond Lukens. He continued his training at the Virginia School of the Arts for one year under the direction of Petrus Bosman and David Keener. In 2002, Whiteside joined Boston Ballet II, where he continued to train under the tutelage of its director Raymond Lukens.  Whiteside joined the corps de ballet of Boston Ballet in 2003 and became a second soloist in 2006. He was promoted to first soloist in 2008 and to principal dancer with Boston Ballet in 2009. 

Whiteside’s repertoire with Boston Ballet included principal roles in George Balanchine’s Theme and Variations, Coppélia, Ballo della Regina, Rubies, The Four Temperaments (Sanguinic), Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, Who Cares?, Serenade, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Symphony in 3 and La Valse; Maina Gielgud’s Giselle; Mikko Nissinen’s The Nutcracker and Swan Lake; John Cranko’s Taming of the Shrew and Romeo and Juliet; Marius Petipa’s The Sleeping Beauty and Raymonda Act III; Antony Tudor’s Dark Elegies; Jiři Kylián’s Bella Figura, Sarabande, Petite Mort and Sechs Tänze; Twyla Tharp’s In the Upper Room; and Mark Morris’ Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes. He created roles in Jorma Elo’s Brake the Eyes, Plan to B, Carmen, Slice to Sharper and In On Blue; Helen Pickett’s Eventide and Etesian; and Mark Morris’ Up & Down.

Whiteside joined American Ballet Theatre as a Soloist in September 2012 and was named a Principal Dancer in October 2013. His repertoire with the Company includes Solor in La Bayadère, the Prince in Frederick Ashton’s Cinderella, Conrad and Ali, the Slave in Le Corsaire, Daphnis and Bryaxis in Daphnis and Chloe, Basilio and Espada in Don Quixote, Oberon in The Dream, the third sailor in Fancy Free, Colas in La Fille mal gardée, Albrecht in Giselle, Astrologer in The Golden Cockerel, Lescaut in Manon, the Nutcracker Prince in Alexei Ratmansky’s The Nutcracker, Prince Gremin in Onegin, Iago in Othello, Champion Roper in Rodeo, Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Prince Désiré in The Sleeping Beauty, Prince Siegfried and von Rothbart (Ballroom) in Swan Lake, Orion in Sylvia, Caliban in The Tempest, Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, Prince Coffee in Whipped Cream, leading roles in Bach Partita, The Brahms-Haydn Variations, Duo Concertant, Chamber Symphony, Her Notes, Let Me Sing Forevermore, Raymonda Divertissements, Symphonic Variations, Symphony in C, Theme and Variations and Valse Fantaisie, and featured roles in Gong, Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes, In the Upper Room and Sinfonietta.

He created The Man in AfterEffect, Harlequin in Ratmansky’s Harlequinade, Dionysius in Of Love and Rage, Zephyr in The Seasons, leading roles in AFTERITE, Garden Blue, Serenade after Plato’s Symposium, A Time There Was and With a Chance of Rain, and a featured role in Dream within a Dream (deferred).

Whiteside has choreographed for music videos, commercials, film and ballet including City of Women for ABT Incubator, Sway for Lincoln Center’s Midsummer Night’s Swing and On the Water, Zero Hour and Bells & Whistles for Boston Ballet.  In 2018, he starred in Arthur Pita’s dance/theater work The Tenant at The Joyce Theater in New York City.  Whiteside hosts his own podcast, “The Stage Rightside with James Whiteside.”

DEVON TEUSCHER

Principal Dancer

Born in Pennsylvania, Devon Teuscher began her dance training at the age of nine under Deanna Doty of the Champaign Urbana Ballet Academy in Champaign, IL.  When her family moved to Vermont, she continued her training at the Vermont Ballet Theatre School in Essex, Vermont under the direction of Alex and Kirsten Nagiba.  At the age of eleven, Teuscher attended The Kirov Ballet Academy summer intensive.  She also attended the Pacific Northwest Ballet summer intensive on a full scholarship for two years. 

From 2002 to 2006 Teuscher attended American Ballet Theatre’s Summer Intensive and was a National Training Scholar from 2003 to 2006.  In January 2005, Teuscher relocated to New York City to train at the American Ballet Theatre Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School on full scholarship.

Teuscher joined ABT Studio Company in 2006, where she danced leading roles in Raymonda, Les Sylphides, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and various works by Jessica Lang.  She joined American Ballet Theatre as an apprentice in December 2007 and the corps de ballet in June 2008.   She became a Soloist in August 2014 and Principal Dancer in September 2017.

Her repertoire with the Company includes Polyhymnia in Apollo, a leading role in Bach Partita, Nikiya and a Shade in La Bayadère, Summer Fairy and Fairy Godmother in Cinderella, Aurora and Lead Mazurka/Czardas in Coppélia, Medora and Gulnare in Le Corsaire, Mercedes, the Dryad Queen and a Flower Girl in Don Quixote, the title role in Firebird, La Lionne in Gaîté Parisienne, Myrta in Giselle, Partisan Woman in The Green Table, Lead Persian Lady in The Golden Cockerel, Pierrette in Harlequinade, the title role in Jane Eyre, Caroline in Jardin aux Lilas, Spanish Dance and one of the Nutcracker’s Sisters in Alexei Ratmansky’s The Nutcracker, Natalia in On the Dnieper, Juliet, Rosaline’s friend and Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet, Frost in The Seasons, Candide (Sincerity), Lilac Fairy and Diamond Fairy in Ratmansky’s The Sleeping Beauty, Odette/Odile, the pas de trois, Spanish Princess and a big swan in Swan Lake, Terpsichore and Diana in Sylvia, Princess Tea Flower in Whipped Cream, leading roles in AFTERITE, Chamber Symphony, Souvenir d’un lieu cher, Symphonie Concertante, Symphonic Variations, Thirteen Diversions and Valse Fantaisie, and featured roles in, Airs, Baker’s Dozen, Citizen, Company B, Dream within a Dream (deferred), Duets, Dumbarton, Everything Doesn’t Happen at Once, Gong, In the Upper Room, Raymonda Divertissements and Sinfonietta.

She created the Fairy Candide (Sincerity) in Alexei Ratmansky’s The Sleeping Beauty and roles in After You, Her Notes, I Feel The Earth Move, New American Romance, Praedicere, Serenade after Plato’s Symposium, A Time There Was and With a Chance of Rain.

CATHERINE HURLIN 

Soloist

Katherine Williams was born in Honolulu, Hawaii and began her early training with the Hawaii State Ballet. After moving to Maryland with her family, she studied at the Ballet Royale Academy under the direction of Donna Pidel.  She was awarded the Youth Grand Prix at the 2003 Finals of the Youth America Grand Prix in New York, and was a Top 12 Finalist at the 2005 Finals. In 2003, she was awarded a full scholarship to the Boston Ballet Summer Dance program.  From 2004 to 2006, she attended American Ballet Theatre’s Summer Intensives as a National Training Scholar and, in 2006, she also attended the Stiefel and Stars Summer Program. 

Williams joined the ABT Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School in the Fall of 2005 and remained there until joining ABT Studio Company in January 2007.  Williams joined American Ballet Theatre as an apprentice in December 2007 and the corps de ballet in June 2008.  She was promoted to Soloist in September 2018.

Her repertoire with the Company includes Polyhymnia in Apollo, a Shade in La Bayadère, Gulnare and an Odalisque in Le Corsaire, the Dryad Queen and a Flower Girl in Don Quixote, Myrta, the peasant pas de deux and Moyna in Giselle, the Spanish Dance and one of The Nutcracker’s Sisters in Alexei Ratmansky’s The Nutcracker, the Fairy Violente (Temperment), Princess Florine, Gold Fairy and Cinderella in Ratmansky’s The Sleeping Beauty, Fairy of Sincerity in The Sleeping Beauty, the pas de trois, a big swan and the Italian Princess in Swan Lake, Mademoiselle Marianne Chartreuse in Whipped Cream and roles in Airs, Company B, Continuo, Deuce Coupe, Her Notes, In the Upper Room and Jardin aux Lilas.  

She created the Queen of Babylon in Of Love and Rage, Ice in The Seasons, leading roles in Garden Blue and New American Romance and featured roles AfterEffect, Everything Doesn’t Happen at Once, Songs of Bukovina and A Time There Was.

KATHERINE WILLIAMS 

Soloist

Katherine Williams was born in Honolulu, Hawaii and began her early training with the Hawaii State Ballet. After moving to Maryland with her family, she studied at the Ballet Royale Academy under the direction of Donna Pidel.  She was awarded the Youth Grand Prix at the 2003 Finals of the Youth America Grand Prix in New York, and was a Top 12 Finalist at the 2005 Finals. In 2003, she was awarded a full scholarship to the Boston Ballet Summer Dance program.  From 2004 to 2006, she attended American Ballet Theatre’s Summer Intensives as a National Training Scholar and, in 2006, she also attended the Stiefel and Stars Summer Program. 

Williams joined the ABT Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School in the Fall of 2005 and remained there until joining ABT Studio Company in January 2007.  Williams joined American Ballet Theatre as an apprentice in December 2007 and the corps de ballet in June 2008.  She was promoted to Soloist in September 2018.

Her repertoire with the Company includes Polyhymnia in Apollo, a Shade in La Bayadère, Gulnare and an Odalisque in Le Corsaire, the Dryad Queen and a Flower Girl in Don Quixote, Myrta, the peasant pas de deux and Moyna in Giselle, the Spanish Dance and one of The Nutcracker’s Sisters in Alexei Ratmansky’s The Nutcracker, the Fairy Violente (Temperment), Princess Florine, Gold Fairy and Cinderella in Ratmansky’s The Sleeping Beauty, Fairy of Sincerity in The Sleeping Beauty, the pas de trois, a big swan and the Italian Princess in Swan Lake, Mademoiselle Marianne Chartreuse in Whipped Cream and roles in Airs, Company B, Continuo, Deuce Coupe, Her Notes, In the Upper Room and Jardin aux Lilas.  

She created the Queen of Babylon in Of Love and Rage, Ice in The Seasons, leading roles in Garden Blue and New American Romance and featured roles AfterEffect, Everything Doesn’t Happen at Once, Songs of Bukovina and A Time There Was.

BLAINE HOVEN

Soloist

Born in Mobile, Alabama, Blaine Hoven began his training at Mobile Ballet under the direction of Winthrop Corey and Ann Duke.  During his high school years, he trained at the North Carolina School of the Arts with Melissa Hayden, Warren Conover, Fanchon Cordell, Nina Danilova and Susan McKee McCollough.  Hoven received American Ballet Theatre’s National Training Scholarship from 1999 through 2002 and attended ABT’s Summer Intensive for five summers.

Hoven joined ABT Studio Company in September 2003 and the main Company as a member of the corps de ballet in April 2004.  His repertoire with the Company includes a leading role in Brahms-Haydn Variations, the Ballerina in The Bright Stream, the Lead Mazurka/Czardas in Coppélia, Dorcon in Daphnis and Chloe, Lankendem in Le Corsaire, Espada in Don Quixote, Bottom in The Dream, the peasant pas de deux in Giselle, the Standard Bearer in The Green Table, Pierrot and Harlequin’s Friend in Alexei Ratmansky’s Harlequinade, St. John Rivers and Reverend Brocklehurst in Jane Eyre, Known by Heart pas de deux, Des Grieux in Lady of the Camellias, Lescaut in Manon, Russian Dance in Ratmansky’s The Nutcracker, Dionysius in Of Love and Rage, Lensky in Onegin, Cassio in Othello, Benvolio and Paris in Romeo and Juliet, Bacchus in The Seasons, the Bluebird, the Russian Prince and a Fairy Knight in The Sleeping Beauty, the Bluebird and a Fairy Cavalier in Ratmansky’s The Sleeping Beauty, Benno and the Neapolitan Dance in Swan Lake, Aminta and Jaseion in Sylvia, Caliban in The Tempest, Ladislav Slivovitz in Whipped Cream, leading roles in C. to C. (Close to Chuck), Désir, Garden Blue, I Feel The Earth Move, Mozartiana, Seven Sonatas, Songs of Bukovina, Symphonie Concertante, Thirteen Diversions, A Time There Was and Troika, and featured roles in Airs, After You, Bach Partita, Baker’s Dozen, Brief Fling, Clear,Deuce Coupe, In the Upper Room, One of Three, Overgrown Path, Private Light, Raymonda Divertissements and Sinfonietta.

He created Louis XIV in Ghost Catcher, the Spanish Dance in Ratmansky’s The Nutcracker, The Faun in The Seasons, the Italian Prince in Ratmansky’s The Sleeping Beauty, Don Zucchero in Whipped Cream, leading roles in AFTERITE, Her Notes and Serenade After Plato’s Symposium, and featured roles in Aftereffect (first production), Citizen, Everything Doesn’t Happen at Once, From Here On Out, Glow – Stop and Pretty Good Year.

Hoven was a recipient of the 2008 Princess Grace Award as well as receiving a specially designated award, the Chris Hellman Dance Award, awarded to one recipient in the dance category each year.  

Hoven was appointed a Soloist in August 2016.

LUCIANA PARIS

Soloist

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Luciana Paris began her ballet training at the age of seven with Elena Perez.  From 1991-1996 she studied at the Colon Theater Superior de Art Institute with Katty Gallo and Raul and Candal.  Paris is a recipient of a Colon Theater Foundation Scholarship, based on her outstanding qualifications at Colon Theater Superior Ballet Institute.  She won a Gold Medal at the Latin American Dance Competition in 1995.

In 1996 Paris was invited by Maximilano Guerra to join Ballet Camara and tour with the company in Argentina.  She then joined the Teatro Colon Ballet as a soloist where she performed the role of Red Riding Hood in The Sleeping Beauty.

In December 1996 Paris joined Julio Bocca’s Ballet Argentino as a principal dancer and became Bocca’s dance partner.  Ballet Argentino’s Artistic Director was Lidia Segni, and Ballet Master William Burman.  From 1997 to 2001, Paris and Julio Bocca danced together a vast classical, neoclassical and modern repertoire including the Don Quixote Grand Pas de Deux, Coppélia Pas de Deux, The Nutcracker Pas de Deux, Black Swan Pas de Deux, Le Corsaire Pas de Deux, Paquita, George Balanchine’s Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux and Donizetti Variations, Mauro Bigonzetti’s Interlaced Symphony, Martha Graham’s Diversion of Angels – the white couple – and Acts of Lights – Lament – (both staged by Peggy Lyman); Jean Pierre Aviotte’s Birdy, Maurico Wainrot’s From far Away and Echoes, Oscar Araiz’s Tango, Ana Maria Stekelman’s Zita, Alberto Mendez’ Late at Nap and Suite Generis, Ricky Pashkus’ Muchacha Ojos de Papel, Kevin O’Day’s Blood Grover, and many others.  Paris’ repertoire with Ballet Argentino company also included Myrta in Ballet Argentino’s production of Giselle at the Luna Park Buenos Aires featuring Alessandra Ferri in the title role.

Paris went on many national tours in Argentina and international tours around the world with

Julio Bocca and the Ballet Argentino, including Greece, Brazil, Italy, Spain, China, Japan Germany, the

United States, Israel, Thailand, France, Cuba, Panama, Singapore and Chile. 

Paris appeared at the 1997 Birmingham Ballet Gala in England dancing the Coppélia Pas de Deux with Julio Bocca. 

Paris joined American Ballet Theatre as a member of the corps de ballet in October 2001. She was appointed a Soloist in August 2015.  Her repertoire with the Company includes Mercedes, a flower girl and the lead gypsy in Don Quixote; the first Shade variation, the small Pas d’Action and the lead D’Jampe in La Bayadère; an Odalisque and the Lead Pirate Woman in Le Corsaire; the pas de trois, the Spanish Princess, the Spanish Dance and a cygnet in Swan Lake; Bathilde First Girl in Fancy Free; Flower Girl in Gaîté Parisienne, Moyna, the peasants pas de deux and a friend of Giselle in Giselle; The Old Mother in The Green Table; Prudence in Lady of the Camellias; Her Other Stepsister and Moss in James Kudelka’s Cinderella; Prayer, Mazurka Lady and Lead Mazurka and Czardas in Coppélia, Columbine, Spanish Dance and one of The Nutcracker’s Sisters in Alexei Ratmansky’s The Nutcracker; Bianca and a Carnival Dancer in Othello; the Third Duet in The Leaves Are Fading, the Lead Polovtsian Girl in the Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor, a Harlot and Rosaline in Romeo and Juliet, Fleur de farine (Wheat flower), Diamond Fairy and Silver Fairy in Ratmansky’s The Sleeping Beauty, Persephone in Sylvia, the cowgirl in Agnes de Mille’s Rodeo, a Can-Can Lady in The Merry Widow, the Lead Saracen Dancer in Raymonda, Zina’s friend in Alexei Ratmansky’s The Bright Stream, Princess Praline in Alexei Ratmansky’s Whipped Cream, Bertha Mason in Cathy Marston’s Jane Eyre and leading roles in Antony Tudor’s Pillar of Fire, Jardin aux Lilas and Dark Elegies; in Twyla Tharp’s Deuce Coupe, Sinatra Suite, In the Upper Room, Bach Partita, Brief Fling, The Brahms-Hayden Variations, Rabbit and Rogue and Baker’s Dozen; in Alexei Ratmansky’s Symphony #9, Dumbarton, Firebird , The Bright Stream, Seven Sonatas, Jiri Kylian’s Petit Mort and Sinfonietta, Paul Taylor’s Company B, Airs and Black Tuesday, George Balanchine’s Allegro Brillante, Theme and Variations, Symphonie Concertante, Symphony in C, Ballet Imperial and Ballo della Regina, Merce Cunningham’s Duets, James Kudelka’s Désir; in Harald Lander’s Études; in Jorma Elo’s Glow – Stop; in Mark Morris’ Gong, Aszure Barton’s One of Three, Irina Kolpakova and Kevin McKenzie’s Raymonda Divertissements, Liam Scarlett’s With a Chance of Rain and Frederick Ashton’s Symphonic Variations.

Paris created a Consort in Twyla Tharp’s Ghost Catcher, Callirhoe’s Maid in Alexei Ratmansky’s Of Love and Rage, Snow in Ratmansky’s The Seasons, a leading role in Robert Hill’s Concerto No. 1 for Piano and Orchestra (World Premiere at New York City Center in 2002) and a featured role in Marcelo Gomes’ AfterEffect.  

She appeared with Project Ballet Theatre, Artistic Director Robert Hill, Artistic Associate Georgina Parkinson, at the Ballet Hawaii Neal Blaisdell Concert Hall (Honolulu) and at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center (Maui) – Hawaii, 2002.

Paris danced Twyla Tharp’s Sinatra Suite with Marcelo Gomes at the Smith Center for the Performing Arts Gala Opening in Las Vegas, March 20, 2012 and at the 2008 Kennedy Center Honors when choreographer Twyla Tharp was one of the six Honorees, broadcast on CBS December 30, 2008.  Paris also danced Sinatra Suite at the New York City Center with José Carreño in 2006 – Carreño’s debut in Sinatra Suite – at the 2011 ABT Fall Season Opening Night Gala with Herman Cornejo, and at the 2012 Fall for Dance Festival at New York City Center, also with Herman Cornejo.

Paris’ guest appearances include the Don Quixote Grand Pas de Deux and Le Corsaire Pas de Deux at Teatro Ciudad de las Artes (Argentina) with Colon Theater principal Federico Fernandez (2012); Giselle in Giselle with Roddy Doble as Albrecht, with Southhold Dance Theater (2012); Tharp’s Known by Heart pas de deux and Gemma Bond’s Manner with the Ballet Manchester at the Southern Vermont Arts Center, the premiere of David Fernandez’s Libertango,with New York City Ballet principal Gonzalo Garcia, at the El Museo del Barrio Theater (New York 2012); the Sugar Plum Fairy in the Southhold Dance Theater’s production of The Nutcracker in 2010 with ABT’s Sean Stewart as the Cavalier, in the Houston Repertoire Ballet’s production of the same title in 2009, with ABT soloist Jared Matthews as her partner; and also in 2003 with Colin County Ballet’s production, dancing the Grand Pas de Deux with ABT principal Jesus Pastor.

Paris also toured Spain as a guest dancer with Angel Corells’s Company several times, dancing George Balanchine’s Who Cares? with Herman Cornejo, among other roles.

In 2012 American Ballet Theatre designated Paris as a Certified Teacher.