| Biography of James Fayette |
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| James Fayette began his ballet training at age five. He became an apprentice with New York City Ballet in the fall of 1990 and was invited to join the Company as a member of the corps de ballet in the spring of 1991. Mr. Fayette was promoted to the rank of soloist in spring 1997, and to principal dancer in spring 2002. Since joining the Company, Mr. Fayette has danced featured roles in Balanchine's Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet, Firebird, The Four Temperaments, Kammermusik No. 2, A Midsummer Night's Dream, La Sonnambula, Vienna Waltzes, and Western Symphony; Peter Martins' Fearful Symmetries, Morgen, A Schubertiad, The Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, Them Twos, and The Waltz Project; Jerome Robbins' Dances At A Gathering, Glass Pieces, Interplay, In The Night, Ives, Songs, and Moves, and many Diamond Project ballets. He also appeared in the Live from Lincoln Center broadcast "New York Ciyt Ballet's Diamond Project: Ten Years of New Choreography." For the past four years, Mr. Fayette has taken a group of dancers to Vermont for benefit performances and led a performing tour of Northern Italy. |
