New York City Ballet announced today that principal dancer Robert Fairchild will give his final performances with the company this October. Since his 2015 leave of absence to make his Broadway debut as Jerry Mulligan in Christopher Wheeldon’s An American in Paris, Fairchild’s presence on the Koch Theater stage has been rare. A true song-and-dance […]
This story originally appeared in the August/September 2014 issue of Pointe. Growing up together, first as students at the School of American Ballet and then as young dancers on the rise at New York City Ballet, Tiler Peck and Robert Fairchild dated off and on. With their lives on the same track for nearly a […]
As told to Laura Cappelle, Margaret Fuhrer and Nancy Wozny Every young ballet student has a dream role, a part she feels she’s made to dance. But a seasoned star has many dream roles over the course of her career. They trace a trajectory—the evolution of the way the dancer defines herself, and the “ballet […]
If you’ve only seen Robert Fairchild displaying his elegant line in Peter Martins’ Romeo + Juliet, you might never guess that he started out as a tap and jazz baby. But watch the New York City Ballet soloist tear through a wickedly off-balance solo in Jorma Elo’s Slice to Sharp and you’ll see his jazz […]
As dancers, we thrive on that ability to transcend the normal and become someone (or something) else on stage. It places us among the lucky few people who have the opportunity to experience that intangible freedom of another world. But aside from those precious moments in performance, we spend hours and hours in the normal […]
You probably remember that New York City Ballet principals Tiler Peck and Robert Fairchild got married earlier this year. They’re two of the ballet world’s most capable artists, and their courtship has traced the path of their careers: growing up together as dancers, dating on and off, getting promoted through the company and finally getting […]
It’s safe to say that Tiler Peck and Robert Fairchild aren’t your average ballet dancers. Over the past few years, the New York City Ballet principals have collaborated with the likes of contemporary choreographer Larry Keigwin and jookin star Lil Buck, and both appeared in the New York Philharmonic’s presentation of the classic musical Carousel. […]
Can’t get enough of city.ballet.? Every Monday, we’ll be posting a new interview with a different cast member from the AOL On docu-series about New York City Ballet. This week, we talk to principals Robert Fairchild and Tiler Peck. No matter how many beautiful performances they’ve given to huge crowds, there’s one thing dancers can […]