I trained at Contra Costa Ballet Centre, San Francisco Ballet School, and the School of American Ballet. In 2004, I joined New York City Ballet as an apprentice, promoted to corps de ballet in 2005 and also was a Mae. L. Wien Award recipient. I joined Pacific Northwest Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet in 2008 and was promoted to soloist in 2014 and principal in 2016 before retiring in 2021.

 

I have danced leading roles in:

• George Balanchine’s - Concerto Barocco, Coppélia (Dr. Coppelius), Diamonds, Emeralds, The Four Temperaments, Symphony in C

• George Balanchine’s - The Nutcracker ® (Cavalier, Herr Drosselmeier, Mouse King, Hot Chocolate), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Theseus, Cavalier), Serenade, and Stravinsky Violin Concerto

• Peter Boal’s - Giselle (Albrecht, Hilarion, Wilfride) 

• David Dawson’s - A Million Kisses to my Skin

• Ulysses Dove’s - Dancing on the Front Porch of Heaven and Red Angels

• Nacho Duato’s - Rassemblement

• William Forsythe’s - In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated, New Suite and One Flat Thing, reproduced

• Kiyon Gaines’ - Sum Stravinsky

• Ronald Hynd’s - The Sleeping Beauty (Gold & Silver pas de trois)

• Jiri Kylian’s - Forgotten Land, Petite Mort, and Sechs Tänze (Six Dances)

• Jean-Christophe Maillot’s - Cendrillon (Father) and Roméo et Juliette (Friar Laurence, Paris)

• Justin Peck’s - Debonair and Year of the Rabbit

• Crystal Pite’s - Emergence and Plot Point

• Alexei Ratmansky’s - Don Quixote (Basilio) and Concerto DSCH

• Jerome Robbins’ - In the Night and West Side Story Suite (Bernardo)

• Kent Stowell’s - Carmina Burana, Cinderella (Father, Memory Father), Nutcracker (Prince, Herr Drosselmeier) and Swan Lake (Baron von Rothbart)

• Susan Stroman’s - TAKE FIVE…More or Less

• Price Suddarth’s - Signature

• Twyla Tharp’s - Nine Sinatra Songs, Opus 111, Waiting at the Station, and Waterbaby Bagatelles

• Christopher Wheeldon’s - Polyphonia, Tide Harmonic, Carousel (A Dance) and Variations Sérieuses.

I originated leading roles in;

• Benjamin Millepied’s - 3 Movements

• Amanda Morgan’s - This Space Left Intentionally Blank

• Mark Morris’ - Kammermusik No. 3

• Margaret Mullin’s - Lost in Light

• Ezra Thomson’s - Salt of the Earth.

 

At New York City Ballet, I danced leading and featured roles in

• Balanchine’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Theseus), Peter Martins’ The Sleeping Beauty (Asia, King, Cavalier)

• Richard Tanner’s Sonatas and Interludes.

And many more.​

In 2019 I traveled to Nagoya, Japan to perform Giselle as Albrecht with Setsuko Kawaguchi Ballet.