Gelsey Kirkland

Gelsey Kirkland ( born December 29, 1952 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) is an American ballet dancer.

Life

Gelsey Kirkland was with 15 years of George Balanchine as a dancer at the New York City Ballet committed after they had graduated from the School of American Ballet their education. In 1969 she was appointed soloist in 1972 and first soloist. Well-known choreographers created roles for her, so in George Balanchine's recovery from "Firebird ," Jerome Robbins ' Goldberg Variations " and Anthony Tudor " The leaves are fading ".

With Mikhail Baryshnikov they have a long standing partnership; with him they danced the television production of the Nutcracker by 1977.

After the New York City Ballet, she joined the American Ballet Theatre ( ABT) and left it in 1984, but returned in 1986 with the Royal Ballet in London to the stage before she ended her career.

In 2006 she was awarded the Dance Magazine Award.

Staged Along with Kevin McKenzie and her husband and she choreographed in 2007, a new production of Sleeping Beauty for the ABT; they stood partly as Carabosse on stage.

Gelsey Kirkland lives with her ​​second husband, the choreographer and former dancer Michael Chernov, in New York. Together they founded and run .. the Gelsey Kirkland Academy of Classical Ballet ( GKACB ), which became operational in August 2010