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Craig as Laura exits - more intense Juli
Craig and Laura portrait arms going down

CRAIG HALL: GUEST ARTIST

for our 2019, 2022  & 2024 NY SEASONS

A former soloist with New York City Ballet, Craig Hall has danced featured roles in George Balanchine’s Agon, Apollo, Episodes, The Four Temperaments, The Nutcracker (Tea, Candy Cane), Serenade, La Sonnambula, Western Symphony; Angelin Preljocaj’s La Stravaganza; Jerome Robbins’ Afternoon of a Faun, The Cage, Fanfare, Glass Pieces; and Christopher Wheeldon’s After the Rain, DGV: Danse à Grande Vitesse, Liturgy, Polyphonia, This Bitter Earth. Featured roles were also created on him by Mario Bigonzetti, Kim Brandstrup, Jiri Bubenicek, Eliot Feld, Jorma Elo, Robert La Fosse, Douglas Lee, Peter Martins, Wayne McGregor, Benjamin Millepied, Justin Peck, Alexei Ratmansky and Lynne Taylor-Corbett. 

 

After retiring from NYCB in 2016, Craig became a ballet master and repetiteur to New York City Ballet Resident-Choreographer Justin Peck. He has staged works for the San Francisco Ballet, Miami City Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Houston Ballet, Nantucket Dance Festival, and Vail International Dance Festival. 

 

In 2018, Craig became part of the four person Artistic Interim Team at NYCB.

Craig performed with LJD in the 2019 NY Season and continues to work in the studio on a new piece which includes a pas-de-deux for him and Laura Di Orio.

Photos by Julie Lemberger and Dmitry Beryozkin

Craig and Laura side tilt arms _ Julie.j
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Our Prior Guest Artists include:

Carlos Lopez: American Ballet Theater 

Atilla Csiki: Lar Lubovitch Dance Company

Reed Luplau: Lar Lubovitch Dance Company

Chris Bloom: Ballet Hispanico

Sean Mahoney: Paul Taylor Dance Company

Max Van de Sterre: New York City Ballet

Nathaniel Keuter: Paul Taylor Dance Company

Domingo Estrada: Mark Morris Dance Group

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