New York City Ballet MOVES

Adrian Danchig-Waring

Adrian Danchig-Waring is a Principal Dancer with New York City Ballet. Born in San Francisco, CA, he began his dance training at age 11 at Dance Theatre Seven, and came to the School of American Ballet in 2001. Named an NYCB apprentice in 2002, he joined the NYCB corps de ballet in 2003, was promoted to Soloist in 2009, and to Principal Dancer in 2013. His repertory includes leading roles in works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Merce Cunningham, Justin Peck, Alexei Ratmansky, and Christopher Wheeldon, among many others. He is the Director of the New York Choreographic Institute, an affiliate of NYCB.

Photo by Paul Kolnik

Joseph Gordon

Joseph Gordon was born in Phoenix, Arizona, and began his dance training at the age of five at The Phoenix Dance Academy.

Mr. Gordon began studying at the School of American Ballet (SAB), the official school of New York City Ballet, during the 2006 summer course and enrolled as a full-time student that fall.

In August of 2011, Mr. Gordon became an apprentice with NYCB, and in July of 2012, he joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet.

In February 2017, Mr. Gordon was promoted to soloist and in October 2018, he was promoted to principal dancer.

Photo by Erin Baiano

Ashley Hod

Ashley Hod is a New York City Ballet Soloist. Born in Great Neck, NY, she began her dance training at age 4 at the Great Neck School of Dance and came to the School of American Ballet in 2003. Named an NYCB apprentice in 2012, she joined the NYCB corps de ballet the following year and was promoted to Soloist in 2022. Her repertory includes leading roles in works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Peter Martins, Justin Peck, Troy Schumacher, and Christopher Wheeldon.  

Anthony Huxley

Anthony Huxley is a Principal Dancer with New York City Ballet. Born in Walnut Creek, CA, he studied ballet at the Contra Costa Ballet School and the San Francisco Ballet School, and came to the School of American Ballet in 2003. Named an NYCB apprentice in 2006, he joined the NYCB corps de ballet in 2007, was promoted to Soloist in 2011, and to Principal Dancer in 2015. His repertory includes leading roles in works by George Balanchine, William Forsythe, Justin Peck, Alexei Ratmansky, Jerome Robbins, Troy Schumacher, Richard Tanner, Peter Walker, and Christopher Wheeldon.

Russell Janzen

Russell Janzen is a Principal Dancer with New York City Ballet. Born in Bridgeport, CT, he began his dance training at age 6 at The Rock School and came to the School of American Ballet in 2005. Named an NYCB apprentice in 2007, he joined the NYCB corps de ballet in 2008, was promoted to Soloist in 2014, and Principal Dancer in 2017. His repertory includes leading roles in works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, August Bournonville, Edwaard Liang, Pontus Lidberg, Peter Martins, Benjamin Millepied, Matthew Neenan, Justin Peck, Alexei Ratmansky, Troy Schumacher, Peter Walker, and Christopher Wheeldon, among others.

Lauren Lovette

Lauren Lovette personifies the intertwining of dance and choreography, moving seamlessly from one to the other. Her work has been commissioned and performed by leading dance companies and festivals, including the New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, the Vail International Dance Festival, American Ballet Theatre Studio Company, the Paul Taylor Dance Company, Nevada Ballet Theatre, Juilliard, Oregon Ballet Theater, Colorado Ballet, as well as a self-produced evening entirely of her own work in which she also danced, Why It Matters.

Born in Thousand Oaks, California, Lovette began studying ballet at the age of 11 at the Cary Ballet Conservatory in Cary, North Carolina. She enrolled at SAB as a full time student in 2006. In October 2009, Ms. Lovette became an apprentice with NYCB and joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet in September 2010. Promoted to soloist in February 2013 and to principal dancer in June 2015, she stepped down from her position at the company in 2021 in order to embark on a career devoted to dance and choreography in more equal measure. She is now the choreographer in residence at the Paul Taylor Dance Company and performs as a guest principal dancer around the world.

Ms. Lovette received the Clive Barnes Award for dance in December 2012 and was the 2012-2013 recipient of the Janice Levin Award.

Sara Mearns // Artist-In-Residence

SARA MEARNS, Columbia, SC, principal dancer New York City Ballet since 2008. Originated roles with choreographers Justin Peck, Kyle Abraham, Alexei Ratmansky, Pam Tanowitz, Bobbi Jene Smith, Christopher Wheeldon, Guillaume Cote, Beth Gill, among others. Guest Performer: Paul Taylor Dance Company, The Cunningham Centennial Celebration, Jodi Melnick Dance, Bill T Jones/Lee Ming Wei, and Wang Ramirez. At NYCC, she starred in Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes, Encores! I Married An Angel, and Twyla Now as well as multiple Fall for Dances, and performed Dances of Isadora Duncan at Lincoln Center. At The Joyce in 2022, Sara performed a full evening with five world premier pieces, titled “A piece of Work”, awarded the Bessie Award for outstanding performer in 2018, awarded the Dance Magazine Award in 2019, and an Honorary Doctorate University of South Carolina in 2019. 

Tiler Peck

Tiler Peck has been a Principal Dancer with New York City Ballet since 2009. She made her Broadway debut at age 11 as Gracie Shinn in The Music Man and was seen on Broadway as Ivy Smith in the Tony Nominated On The Town. She originated the title role in Susan Stroman’s newest musical Little Dancer at the Kennedy Center and is attached to star in the Broadway production. Tiler made her choreographic debut at the Vail Dance Festival in 2018 and has gone on to choreograph and appear in episodes of Tiny Pretty Things and Ray Donovan, for the Boston Ballet and the box office smash hit film John Wick 3. She has also appeared on Dancing with the Stars, the Kennedy Center Honors and Live From Lincoln Center’s The Nutcracker and Carousel, Disney+’s The Hip Hop Nutcracker, and Josh Groban’s Great Big Radio City Show PBS special. As a guest star, she was the first ballerina ever to appear on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. In film she has starred in “Ballet Now”, a Hulu documentary that followed her as she became the first woman to curate and star in The Los Angeles Music Center’s presentation ofBalletNOW, “Ballet 422”, “A Time for Dancing”, and “Donnie Darko”. She is a recipient of the Princess Grace Statue Award, The Dance Magazine Award and was named one of Forbes 30 under 30.  Most recently, she curated and directed the highly anticipated inaugural Artists at the Center for New York City Center that will make its European debut this summer as Turn It Out With Tiler Peck & Friends. This program marked her NYC choreographic debut and featured premieres from William Forsythe, Alonzo King, Jillian Meyers and Michelle Dorrance.

To keep the dance world connected during the pandemic, Tiler developed a free ballet class #TurnItOutWithTiler that airs on her Instagram. She is the designer of the Love,Tiler collection for Só Dança and the capsule collection Tiler Peck X STATESIDE in collaboration with the popular Los Angeles-based clothing company. She has released two children’s books with Simon & Schuster: Katarina Ballerina and Katarina Ballerina & The Victory Dance.

More on Tiler at www.tilerpeck.com. Tiler can be found on Instagram & TikTok via @TilerPeck.

Andrew Scordato

Andrew Scordato is a member of New York City Ballet’s corps de ballet. Born in Sewell, NJ, he began studying ballet at age 9 at The Rock School in Philadelphia before coming to the School of American Ballet in 2002. Named an NYCB apprentice in 2005, he joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet later in 2006. His repertory with NYCB includes leading roles in works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Melissa Barak, Jiří Bubeníček, August Bournonville, Matthew Neenan, Peter Martins, Justin Peck, Alexei Ratmansky, Myles Thatcher, and Christopher Wheeldon.

Gretchen Smith

Gretchen Smith is a member of New York City Ballet’s corps de ballet. Born in Evansville, Indiana, she began her dance training at age 7 at Evansville Dance Theatre and came to the School of American Ballet in 2003. Named an NYCB apprentice in 2005, she joined the NYCB corps de ballet the following year. Her repertory includes leading roles in works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Melissa Barak, Christopher d’Amboise, Adam Hendrickson, Peter Martins, Justin Peck, Angelin Preljocaj, Alexei Ratmansky, Pam Tanowitz, and Christopher Wheeldon.

Andrew Veyette

Andrew Veyette is a Principal Dancer with New York City Ballet. Born in Denver, CO, he began his dance training at age 9 at Dance Arts and Westside Ballet, and came to the School of American Ballet in 1998. Named an NYCB apprentice in 2000, he joined the NYCB corps de ballet later that year, was promoted to Soloist in 2006, and to Principal Dancer in 2007. His repertory includes leading roles in works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Mauro Bigonzetti, August Bournonville, Merce Cunningham, Lauren Lovette, Peter Martins, Justin Peck, Alexei Ratmansky, Twyla Tharp, and Christopher Wheeldon.

Peter Walker

Peter Walker is a Principal Dancer with New York City Ballet. Born in Fort Myers, FL, he began his dance training at age 8 with Judy Murray and at the Gulfshore Ballet, and came to the School of American Ballet in 2007. Named an NYCB apprentice in 2011, he joined the NYCB corps de ballet in 2012, was promoted to Soloist in 2018, and to Principal Dancer in 2022. His repertory includes leading roles in works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Kyle Abraham, Sidra Bell, Peter Martins, Justin Peck, Jamar Roberts, Christopher Wheeldon, and in his own work, among others. He has choreographed two works for NYCB: ten in seven (2016) and dance odyssey (2018). 

Indiana Woodward

Indiana Woodward is a New York City Ballet Soloist. Born in Paris, France, Woodward began her dance training at age 10 at the Yuri Grigoriev School of Ballet and came to the School of American Ballet in 2010. Named an NYCB apprentice in 2012, she joined the NYCB corps de ballet that year and was promoted to Soloist in 2017. Her repertory includes leading roles in works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Robert Binet, August Bournonville, William Forsythe, Edwaard Liang, Lauren Lovette, Peter Martins, Justin Peck, Alexei Ratmansky, Gianna Reisen, Pam Tanowitz, Peter Walker, and Christopher Wheeldon.