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David Hallberg
Dancer
Born in Rapid City, South Dakota, David Hallberg began jazz and tap classes at the age of ten. He began his formal ballet training at 13 with Kee Juan Han at the Arizona Ballet School in Phoenix where he studied intensively for four years. In 1999, he was accepted into the Paris Opera Ballet School where he continued his studies under the direction of Claude Bessy, Jacques Namont and Gilbert Meyer.
Hallberg attended American Ballet Theatre’s New York Summer Intensive in 1999 and 2000 and was an ABT National Training Scholar for both of those years.
Hallberg joined ABT’s Studio Company (now ABT II) in September 2000 and then joined American Ballet Theatre as a member of the corps de ballet in April 2001, was promoted to Soloist in January 2004 and Principal in May 2005. His roles with the Company include the Boy in
Afternoon of a Faun, the title role in
Apollo, Solor in
La Bayadиre, Prince Charming in
Cinderella, Conrad in
Le Corsaire, Basilio and Espada in
Don Quixote, Oberon in
The Dream, the second sailor in
Fancy Free, Albrecht in
Giselle, Death in
The Green Table, the Cavalier in
The Nutcracker, Othello in
Othello,
Other Dances, A Friend of the Family in
Pillar of Fire, Bernard and Jean de Brienne in
Raymonda, Romeo, Paris and Benvolio in
Romeo and Juliet, , Romeo in
Romeo and Juliet (Romeo’s Farewell to Juliet), Prince Dйsirй in
The Sleeping Beauty, Prince Siegfried, von Rothbart (Act III) and Benno in
Swan Lake, James in
La Sylphide, Aminta in
Sylvia, the first movement in George Balanchine’s
Symphony in C, the
Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, and leading roles in
Ballet Imperial,
Ballo della Regina,
Clear,
Drink To Me With Thine Eyes,
From Here On Out,
Glow - Stop,
Gong,
Kaleidoscope,
In The Upper Room,
Meadow,
Petite Mort,
Pretty Good Year,
Seven Sonatas,
Sinfonietta,
Les Sylphides,
Symphonic Variations,
Theme and Variations and
Within You Without You: A Tribute to George Harrisonand featured roles in
Clear, Overgrown Path and
workwithinwork. He created the title role in Robert Hill’s
Dorian, Olga's Fiancй in
On the Dnieper and leading roles in
Citizen and
Rabbit and Rogue.
Hallberg was a recipient of the Princess Grace Fellowship and the Chris Hellman Dance Award for 2002-2003. He received a nomination for the Benois de la Danse Award in 2006. Hallberg has guested and danced in galas throughout the world from Japan to the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, to name a few.