Joseph Phillips, Guest Artist, Cavalier, The Nutcracker

Born in Montgomery, Alabama, Joseph Phillips began his dance training in Columbia, South Carolina when he was ten years old, studying with Anita Ashley and the Carolina Ballet. He attended the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts studying with master teacher and coach, Stanislav Issaev. He attended the North Carolina School of the Arts (now the University of North Carolina School of the Arts) on full scholarship, studying extensively with Warren Conover.

Phillips joined the Miami City Ballet as a soloist in 2007. Before that, he danced with the San Francisco Ballet for four years.

At the age of 16, Phillips won the Gold Medal at the USA International Ballet Competition in Jackson, Mississippi, the Gold Medal at the First Prague International Ballet Competition, the Gold Medal at the Youth American Grand Prix, NY and the Jury Prize at the International Ballet Competition in Helsinki, Finland. He was awarded the Les Étoiles de Ballet 2000 prize of Cannes, France for being a frequent guest artist at national and international festivals and with companies around the globe, from Japan and Mexico to the Czech Republic, and most recently at the Spoleto Festival in Italy. He also lit the torch to open the VIII United States of America International Ballet Competition in Jackson, Mississippi this past year. He won the gold medal at the Seoul International Dance Competition in 2008.

Phillips joined American Ballet Theatre as a member of the corps de ballet in January 2008. His repertoire with the Company includes a Lead Gypsy in Don Quixote, the Lead Pontavedrian Dancer in The Merry Widow, a Fairy Knight in The Sleeping Beauty, the Neapolitan Dance in Swan Lake, Pluto in Sylvia and roles in Airs, Company B and Seven Sonatas. He created a role in One of Three.

Hee Seo, Guest Artist, Sugarplum Fairy, The Nutcracker

Born in Seoul, South Korea, Hee Seo began her ballet training in her hometown at the Sun-hwa Arts Middle School. She was awarded a three-year full scholarship to continue her training at the Universal Ballet Academy in Washington, D. C. In 2003, Seo won a scholarship to train at the John Cranko Ballet Academy in Stuttgart. She is the recipient of the 2003 Prix de Lausanne Award and the 2003 Grand Prix at the Youth American Grand Prix in New York.

Seo joined the ABT Studio Company (now ABT II) in 2004 and the main Company as an apprentice in May 2005 and the corps de ballet in March 2006. Her repertoire with the Company includes Gamzatti, the Lead D’Jampe and a Shade in La Bayadère, a flower girl in Don Quixote, Zulma in Giselle, Olympia in Lady of the Camellias, Natalia in On the Dnieper, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, the Fairy of Sincerity and Princess Florine in The Sleeping Beauty, the pas de trois, the Polish Princess and a big swan in Swan Lake, the Sylph in La Sylphide, Ceres in Sylvia, Thaïs Pas de Deux and roles in Ballo della Regina, Birthday Offering, The Brahms-Haydn Variations, Dark Elegies, From Here On Out, The Leaves Are Fading, Overgrown Path and Seven Sonatas.

Seo was appointed a Soloist in August 2010.

Laura Martin, Guest Teacher, 2010
Laura Martin was trained primarily at The Washington School of Ballet under the direction of Mary Day, with summer training at The Joffrey School, and The Chautauqua Institute.  She went on to perform with The Washington Ballet, Miami City Ballet, and American Ballet Theatre, dancing the works of choreographers such as Balanchine, Tudor, de Mille, Tharp, Taylor, and Graham, as well as most of the classics.  Following ABT, she was invited to join the Broadway cast of the Phantom of the Opera where she stayed for two years.  She has taught at Princeton Dance and Theater Studio, Ballet Academy East, and The Washington School of Ballet.  In addition to teaching ballet, she is a certified yoga teacher at the 200-hour level.

 Chris Martin, Guest Teacher, 2010
Chris studied at the North Carolina School of the Arts (now the University of North Carolina School of the Arts). He went on to become a member of the American Ballet Theatre, the Washington Ballet and the Miami City Ballet, dancing roles in both their classical and contemporary repertoire. Chris’ teaching experience includes the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Chautauqua Institute, California State Long Beach and Wake Forest University, to name a few.

Alberto Del Saz, Répétiteur, Gallery (Winter Dance, 2011)
As the Artistic Director of the Murray Louis and Nikolais Dance Company, as well as the Co-Director of The Nikolais/Louis Foundation for Dance, Mr. Del Saz is a vital link to keeping the Nikolais-Louis repertory active. Mr. Del Saz is the Reconstruction Director of the Nikolais/Louis repertory and has staged the Nikolais/Louis repertory for University and professional dance companies around the world.

Mr. Del Saz was born in Bilbao, Spain in 1960. At an early age he studied ice-skating, which later led to his first performing career. In 1980, Mr. Del Saz became the Spanish National Champion in figure skating and soon made his debut with Holiday on Ice International. His early dance training was received at the Nikolais-Louis Dance Lab from the great teachers of the technique: Hanya Holm, Alwin Nikolais, Murray Louis, Claudia Gitelman, Tandy Beal, Beverly Blossom and others.            

In 1985, Mr. Del Saz made his debut as a lead soloist with the Nikolais Louis Dance Theater, later renamed the Murray Louis and Nikolais Dance Company. As a member of this internationally acclaimed company he has toured virtually every continent on the Globe.

Mr. Del Saz has appeared for President Reagan at the Kennedy Center Honors in a CBS telecast featuring the Nikolais Dance Theater as well as on PBS American Masters series in NIK AND MURRAY, an award-winning documentary film by Christian Blackwood. He has also represented the United States State Department on a tour of India, appeared at the Paris Opera Garnier in a Homage to Alwin Nikolais and performed at the Next Wave Festival with Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane Dance Company. In 1990, he went to Japan where he appeared as a guest artist in “V”, a project by Mr. Ushio Amagatsu, Artistic Director of Sankai Juku. He has also performed at “Men Brazil.” Mr. Del Saz has appeared as a guest solo artist in works by Hanya Holm, Claudia Gitelman, Maureen Fleming, Sara Pearson, Cleo Parker Robinson and others.

Mr. Del Saz’s work has been funded by NYSCA in collaboration with Ice Theater of New York. He is currently choreographing for bronze medalist figure skater Nicole Bobek and Olympic bronze medalist and World Professional Champion Philippe Candeloro. His skating work has appeared on Ice-Wars, Grand Slam and the Professional World Championships televised on CBS, FOX and ABC networks as well as the official opening of the Rockefeller Center, sponsored by Champions on Ice.

Mr. Del Saz has been with the Nikolais/Louis Foundation for 23 years, and his current focus is in preserving the Nikolais/Louis technique, repertory and legacy through his teaching and directing.

Victoria Simon, Répétiteur, Symphonie Concertante (Winter Dance, 2011)
Victoria Simon was one of the first dancers selected by George Balanchine to re-stage his ballets. In 1965, recognizing her talent for learning roles quickly, Mr. Balanchine asked her to stage The Nutcracker in Cologne, Germany.

Now, as Ballet Mistress for the George Balanchine Trust, she has staged over 25 of the master’s ballets for more than 80 companies on every continent in the world. Ms. Simon’s love for the ballets and respect for the choreography are evident in her stagings. With her eye for detail and her emphasis in musicality, she is one of the most sought-after and respected re-creators of George Balanchine’s masterpieces.

Ms. Simon began her study of ballet in New York City at the School of American Ballet and was a Candy Cane in Balanchine’s original production of The Nutcracker. She became an apprentice with the New York City Ballet at the age of 17, and a few months later, two days after her 18th birthday, she was invited to join the company. She went on to become a soloist before taking on the challenging role as Balanchine’s representative around the world.

In 1981, Ms. Simon began to choreograph her own ballets and created works for Ballet Met, Nashville Ballet, Des Moines Ballet, Charleston Ballet Theatre, and a workshop at the School of American Ballet. She is also in great demand as a teacher of the Balanchine style and technique.

Zane Booker, Intensive Arts 2010
Zane Booker, a native Philadelphian, began his dance training at the age of seven with the Philadelphia School of Dance Arts under the direction of Joan Myers Brown. By age 14, he was selected by Ms. Brown to perform with the Philadelphia Dance Company (Philadanco). He went on to become one of the Company’s principal artists, dancing roles created by Talley Beatty, Louis Johnson and Gene Hill Sagan. Zane went on to pursue a degree at the North Carolina School of the Arts (now the University of North Carolina School of the Arts). After performing for one year with North Carolina Dance Theater and encouraged by his teachers to continue his training at the School of American Ballet, Mr. Booker moved to New York, auditioned, and was accepted. Once there, he was invited by Mikhail Baryshnikov to augment his studies at the American Ballet Theater. He maintained a rigorous training schedule at both institutions for two years.

During a trip to Holland with the School of American Ballet to perform on a joint program with the Vagonava School, Mr. Booker auditioned for the Netherlands Dance Theater. He was quickly accepted into the company and spent the next six years dancing under the direction of Jiri Kylian. As a soloist he danced roles created by Kylian, Nacho Duato, William Forsythe, Mats Ek and Ohad Nahrin. In 1996, Zane accepted an offer to join Les Ballets de Monte Carlo under the direction of Jean Christophe Maillot. During his tenure there, he was featured in ballets created by John Alleyne, Ted Brandsen and Jean Christophe Maillot.

Zane left Les Ballets de Monte Carlo in 1999 to accept invitations to appear as a guest artist with major  companies around the world, including the new National Theater of Tokyo, Philadanco, Complexions the Opera of Monte Carlo, and Rhythmek. He also returned to Les Ballets de Monte Carlo as a featured guest performer. During this period, Mr. Booker also focused his energies on creating choreographies for universities, ballet companies, operas and musical productions. His credits include works for Philadanco, Ballet X, Dans4Nia, Mogador Theatre-Paris/La Cage Aux Folles, the Jackson Ballet Competition, Broadway Theater Project and the Opera of Monte Carlo. Additionally, Mr. Booker has taught for many companies and schools in the United States, Europe, and Australia.

After moving back to the United States, Mr. Booker was invited to dance with Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project. He danced there for two years before the group disbanded. In 2006, Zane founded the Smoke, Lilies and Jade Arts Initiative (SLJ), a socially conscious, multimedia, dance theater company promoting HIV/ AIDS awareness. He created “Ebony, Beige and Bronze: The Philadelphia Show” to inspire social consciousness about HIV/AIDS. Dance Magazine chose SLJ as one of its “25 Companies to Watch” in 2007. In addition to serving as SLJ’s Executive and Artistic Director, Zane is a master lecturer at the University of the Arts and Howard University.

Thomas Kail, Intensive Arts 2010
Mr. Kail was nominated for a 2008 Tony Award for his direction of In the Heights for which the Off-Broadway production won the Callaway Award, a Drama Desk nomination, and an Outer Critics nomination. Other notable directing credits include the New York City Center’s The Wiz, the Williamstown Theatre Festival’s World Premiere of Broke-ology as well as Broke-ology at the Lincoln Center Theater (Mitzi Newhouse - Fall 2009).  

Mr. Kail is the co-creator and director of the hip-hop improv group Freestyle Love Supreme and the Artistic Director and co-founder of Back House Productions.  He is the co-Music Director and a consulting producer of the new PBS show The Electric Company. Mr. Kail received the 2008 Martin E. Segal Award from the Lincoln Center. His latest project is directing the World Premiere of Lombardi,at the Circle in the Square Theatre on Broadway in the fall of 2010. Mr. Kail is a graduate of Wesleyan University, CT.

Doug Elkins, Choreographer/Guest Teacher (Fall Dance, 2010)

Mr. Elkins is a two-time New York Dance and Performance (BESSIE) Award-winning choreographer who began his career as a B-Boy, touring the world with break dance groups New York Dance Express and Magnificent Force, among others. In 1988, he founded the Doug Elkins Dance Company with Lisa Nicks and Jane Weiner, which performed nationally and internationally for fifteen years before disbanding in 2003. 

Doug is a recipient of significant choreographic commissions and awards from the NEA, National Performance Network, Jerome Foundation, Choo-San Goh & H. Robert Magee Foundation, Dance Magazine Foundation, Metropolitan Life/American Dance Festival, Hartford Foundation, Arts International, The Greenwall Foundation and The Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts.  

In 1994, Doug received a Brandeis University Creative Arts Medal, sharing the stage with author Philip Roth and photographer Nan Goldin.  In 2006, he was honored in New York City by the Martha Hill Award for Career Achievement.  Doug has taught and choreographed extensively in the US and Europe and has created original work for Israel’s Batsheva Dance Company, Flying Karamazov Brothers (currently running off-Broadway with 4Play), MaggioDanza, Pennsylvania Ballet, Union Dance and CanDoCo of London, as well as a number of university dance companies and the renowned Mini & Maxi of Holland.

His theater work includes collaborations with Joanne Akalaitis and Philip Glass, Robert Woodruff, Pavel Dubrusky, Annie Hamburger, Molly Smith, Craig Lucas, David Henry Hwang, Michael Preston and Barbara Karger.  Most recently he worked with Arin Arbus on her critically-acclaimed Othello for Theatre for a New Audience. At A.R.T. last season, where Doug frequently consults, he worked on Cardenio (written by Charles Mee and Stephen Greenblatt and directed by Les Waters) and The Communist Dracula Pageant (directed by Anne Kaufman). 

A graduate of SUNY/Purchase, he received his MFA in Dance from Hollins University/ADF in 2007.  He currently teaches at The Beacon School on the Upper West Side of Manhattan where his tenure is the subject of Where the Dance Is, a short film by Marta Renzi.

Amanda McKerrow, Guest Teacher (Winter Term 2011)

Ms. McKerrow is one of America’s most acclaimed ballerinas.  She has the honor of being the first American to receive a gold medal at the International Ballet Competition in Moscow in 1981.  Since then she has been a recipient of numerous other awards, including the Princess Grace Foundation Dance Fellowship.

Ms. McKerrow was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and began her ballet training at the age of seven at the Twinbrook School of Ballet in Rockville, Maryland.  She later studied with Mary Day at the Washington School of Ballet, where she danced with the company for two years and toured extensively throughout the United States and Europe.

Ms McKerrow joined the American Ballet Theatre (ABT) under the direction of Mikhail Baryshnikov in 1982, was appointed a soloist in 1983, and became a principal dancer in 1987.  Her repertoire includes  the leading roles in Cinderella, Giselle, Romeo and Juliet, Manon, La Bayadere, Coppelia, Don Quixote, The Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, La Sylphide, and The Nutcracker.  She has been acclaimed for performances of shorter works by George Balanchine, Antony Tudor, Sir Frederick Ashton, Jerome Robbins, and Juri Kilian.  Ms. McKerrow has created roles in ballets by choreographers such as Twyla Tharpe, Clark Tippet, James Kudelka, Agnes de Mille, Choo San Goh, and Mark Morris.  She has also appeared as a guest artist throughout the world.

In 2000, together with her husband John Gardner, Ms. McKerrow began working for the Antony Tudor Trust, staging and coaching his superlative Leaves Are Fading around the country.  She has also staged numerous other ballets for professional companies and schools across the United States.  During her last ten years performing as a principal ballerina with the American Ballet Theatre, she has spent as much time as possible working with students and young dancers.  Upon her retirement from ABT in 2005, she devoted the majority of her time to teaching and coaching this great art form that she loves so much.

John Gardner, Guest Teacher (Winter Term 2011)

John Gardner was born in Lafayette, Louisiana, and began his ballet training at age 12 with Gwen Ashton in Lafayette, and subsequently trained at the National Academy of Arts in Champagne, Illinois, under the direction of Michael Maule.  He received a scholarship to the American Ballet Theatre (ABT) at the age of 16, and joined ABT’s second company three months thereafter, in 1977.  In 1978, he joined ABT’s main company, and was promoted to the rank of soloist in 1984.  Mr. Gardner’s diverse repertoire includes many soloist and principal roles which have represented an extensive range of styles and have given him the opportunity to work with some of the great ballet choreographers of the 20th century, including Antony Tudor, Jerome Robbins, Agnes de Mille, and George Balanchine.

In 1991, Mr. Gardner joined Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project, allowing him the opportunity to work closely with choreographers such as Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, Mark Morris, Lar Lubovitch, and Martha Graham.  Mr. Gardner created numerous roles during his time with the White Oak Dance Project and toured extensively in Europe, the United States, Asia, and South America.  He returned to ABT in 1995, where he danced a wide variety of roles with the company until 2002.  In 2000, Mr. Gardner, together with his wife Amanda McKerrow, begin working for the Antony Tudor Trust, staging and coaching his superlative ballet, Leaves are Fading, around the country.

During the course of his career, Mr. Gardner has achieved an excellent reputation as a master teacher and coach for ballet on both the professional and student levels, and has staged numerous ballets for professional companies and schools across the United States.

Larry Keigwin, Intensive Arts, 2010
Mr. Keigwin is a native New Yorker and graduate from Hofstra University, where he received his BA in dance. He founded KEIGWIN + COMPANY in 2003, and as its Artistic Director, Mr. Keigwin has led the company in performances at theaters and dance festivals throughout New York and across the country, including The Joyce Theater, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, New York City Center, American Dance Festival, the Vail International Dance Festival, and more. Recent commissions include Works and Process at the Guggenheim, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, The Julliard School, The New York City Ballet's Choreographic Institute, and The Martha Graham Dance Company. Mr. Keigwin was recently named the artist in residence for the 2010 season of the Vail International Dance Festival.

Mr. Keigwin's other choreographic credits include work with the band Fischerspooner and the comedian Murray Hill, and as an Associate Choreographer for both the Radio City Rockettes and the Off-Broadway musical The Wild Party. As a dancer, Mr. Keigwin has danced at the Metropolitan Opera in Doug Varone's Le Sacre Du Printemps and Julie Taymor's The Magic Flute, and has worked with Mark Dendy (having received a Bessie Award in 1998 for his performance in Dream Analysis), John Jasperse, Doug Elkins, Zvi Gontheiner, and David Rousseve.

He appeared in the Broadway show Dance of the Vampires and the Julie Taymor, Oscar-nominated film ACROSS THE UNIVERSE. In addition to his work for KEIGWIN + COMPANY, Mr. Keigwin has created Keigwin Kabaret, a fusion of dance, vaudeville, and burlesque acts presented by the Public Theater at Joe's Pub and by Symphony Space.

David Richardson, Répétiteur, James Kudelka’s Gazebo Dances (Winter Dance, 2011)
David Richardson has had a long and illustrious career as a ballet dancer, teacher, ballet master, coach and assistant artistic director. He received his training at School of American Ballet and the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo School, both in New York. After two years as a dancer at American Ballet Theatre, Mr. Richardson joined New York City Ballet under the direction of George Balanchine where he danced for twenty years. In 1983, he rejoined American Ballet Theatre as ballet master, and became Assistant Artistic Director in 1996.

Mr. Richardson has also staged ballets for the Royal Danish Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, National Ballet of Lithuania, Berlin Opera Ballet, Colorado Ballet, Angel Corella Ballet of Spain, National Ballet of Canada, Miami City Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet and Pittsburgh Ballet. In 2002, he was Artist is Residence at Ballet Met Columbus.

Mr. Richardson now resides in New York City and since 2003 has been a guest teacher and Artistic Advisor for Lockport City Ballet.

Eric Oberdorff, Choreographer, a world premiere (Spring Dance, 2011)
After studying dance at the National Conservatory of Nice (France), at the International Dance School of Cannes Rosella Hightower and then at the Paris Opera School of Ballet, Mr. Oberdorff danced with the Salzburg Landestheater Ballet (Austria), with the Zürich Opera Ballet (Switzerland), and with the Monte Carlo Ballets. During his tours around the world over those 16 years as a dancer, he has performed pieces choreographed by Kylian, Maillot, Balanchine, Forsythe, Childs, to name a few.

Mr. Oberdorff has also studied acting and theater directing, and continues to practice martial arts, which he had started before dancing. Mr. Oberdorff created his first pieces for young choreographers’ workshops, and his pieces have been performed in many different festivals including Berner Tanz Tage, Tanzhaus Zürich, the International Dance Festival of Cannes, and the International Dance Festival of Biarritz, Le temps d’aimer.

In June 2001, his piece Impression lumières fugitives was awarded first prize at the International Choreographic Competition of Hanover, Germany, and he is named among the outstanding young choreographers of 2001 on the Ballett-Tanz Aktuell magazine.

In fall 2002, Mr. Oberdorff founded the Compagnie Humaine and since September 2003, he has dedicated himself to its development and to his freelance career as guest choreographer with international ballet companies such as Geneva Ballet, Ballet National de Marseille, Ballett Theater Hagen, Ballett Staatstheater Mainz, Junior Ballet CNSMD Lyon, among others. In May 2007, Mr. Oberdorff was nominated for the Kurt Joos Prize for his duet, Absence.

Mr. Oberdorff takes part in other projects outside of dance, including choreographing theater plays, filming documentaries and short movie works, and teaching. In January 2009, Eric won an award by the Grant Committee of the Association Beaumarchais-SACD (the French Society of Authors and Composers) for his creation, Un autre rêve américain.

Patrice Hemsworth, Répétiteur, A Stair Dance by Eliot Feld (Spring Dance, 2011)
Ms. Hemsworth studied at the School of American Ballet for 11 years. Following her time there, she joined Chicago City Ballet under Maria Tallchief for four years. Ms. Hemsworth danced with the Feld Ballet for four years and has worked for the past 20 years with Eliot Feld’s company as ballet mistress and as a teacher and director of faculty for the lower school.

David Halberg
Born in Rapid City, South Dakota, Mr. Hallberg began his formal ballet training at 13 with Kee Juan Han at the Arizona Ballet School and continued his studies at the Paris Opera Ballet School. Mr. Hallberg attended American Ballet Theatre’s (ABT) New York Summer Intensive in 1999 and 2000 as an ABT National Training Scholar. He joined ABT’s Studio Company in September 2000; joined ABT as a member of the corps de ballet in April 2001; and was promoted to Soloist in January 2004 and Principal in May 2005.

His repertoire of full-length ballets includes leading roles in Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet, Giselle, Don Quixote, La Bayadere, Othello, Le Corsaire, The Nutcracker, Cinderella, Sylvia, La Sylphide, Lady of the Camellias and Raymonda. He dances a wide range of shorter works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Kurt Jooss, Antony Tudor, Mark Morris, Twyla Tharp, Lar Lubovitch, Jiri Kylian, Frederick Ashton and William Forsythe. Twyla Tharp created a leading role for him in her 2008 world premiere for Ballet Theatre, Rabbit and Rogue, and Alexei Ratmansky created a role for him in his 2009 world premiere for Ballet Theatre, On the Dnieper.

In April 2010, Mr. Hallberg made his debuts with the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow and the Mariinsky Ballet in St. Petersburg. He toured Russia in 2008 and 2009 with the ensemble, Kings of the Dance. He danced Frederick Ashton's Dance of the Blessed Spirits, originally created for Sir Anthony Dowell, who taught the solo to him. Other guest artist appearances include the Royal Swedish Ballet, the Kiev Ballet and, beginning in September 2010, Principal Guest Artist with the Australian Ballet.

Mr. Hallberg won the 2010 Benois de la Danse Prize as best male dancer for his performance as Albrecht in Giselle with American Ballet Theatre. He danced with the Georgian State Ballet under the direction of Nina Ananishvili in April 2010 and was honored with the “Rising Star Award.” He was a recipient of the Princess Grace Fellowship and the Chris Hellman Dance Award for 2002-2003.

Mr. Hallberg created the David Hallberg Scholarship to mentor a young, male student aspiring to a career in dance at the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School of American Ballet Theatre.

Gary Chryst

Gary Chryst has staged the Chicago choreography on every continent except Antarctica. He staged Michel Fokine’s Petrouchka for the Mariinsky Theater (Kirov) in St. Petersburg, Russia, during January 2010. The work was conducted by Valery Gergiev and will be issued on DVD. He had previously produced the work for the National Ballet of Canada and American Ballet Theatre, performing as the Charlatan in the latter production at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. In March 2010, he staged Jerome Robbins’ NY Export: Opus.Jazz for The Juilliard School.  In January 2008, he co-choreographed a new production of West Side Story in Brazil. Other choreographic credits include a new American production of South Pacific, Nijinsky in Japan and numerous MTV videos. Mr. Chryst's Broadway performing credits include Guys and Dolls, Bob Fosse’s Dancin’ and A Chorus Line. He appeared on international tours of Chorus Line and West Side Story. He had a notable career as a classical dancer with the Joffrey Ballet and Nederlans Dans Theatre 3. He returned to the Joffrey in October 2006 as one of the Ugly Stepsisters in the Company premiere of Frederick Ashton's Cinderella. He performed as a guest with the companies of Twyla Tharp, David Parsons, Lar Lubovitch, Eliot Feld, José Limón, and Nureyev and Friends, among others.