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Born in Fairfield, Connecticut, James Whiteside began his training at age nine at the D'Valda & Sirico Dance and Music Centre, where guest faculty included Franco De Vita and Raymond Lukens. He continued his training at the Virginia School of the Arts for one year under the direction of Petrus Bosman and David Keener. In 2002, Whiteside joined Boston Ballet II, where he continued to train under the tutelage of its director Raymond Lukens, now director of ABT's National Training Curriculum. Whiteside joined the corps de ballet of Boston Ballet in 2003 and became a second soloist in 2006. He was promoted to first soloist in 2008 and to principal dancer with Boston Ballet in 2009.
Whiteside's repertoire with Boston Ballet included George Balanchine's Theme and Variations (Principal), Coppélia (Frantz), Ballo della Regina, Rubies (Principal), The Four Temperaments (Sanguinic), Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, Who Cares?, Serenade (Elegy Man),
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Lysander) and La Valse; Maina Gielgud's Giselle (Albrecht); Mikko Nissinen's The Nutcracker (Cavalier, Snow King) and Swan Lake (Pas de Trois, Pas de Cinq); John Cranko's Taming of the Shrew (Gremio) and Romeo and Juliet (Benvolio); Marius Petipa's The Sleeping Beauty (Bluebird) and Raymonda Act III; Antony Tudor's Dark Elegies; James Kudelka's Cinderella
(Officer); Jiří Kylián's Sarabande, Petite Mort and Sechs Tänze; Twyla Tharp's In the Upper Room; Mark Morris' Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes; Sabrina Matthews' ein von viel; Val Caniparoli's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion and Avi Scher's Utopia. He created roles in Jorma Elo's Brake the Eyes, Plan to B, Carmen (Don Jose) and In On Blue; Helen Pickett's Eventide and Etesian; Mark Morris' Up & Down and Heather Myers' Gone Again.
Whiteside joined American Ballet Theatre as a Soloist in September 2012. His repertoire with the Company includes Ali, the Slave in Le Corsaire, Basilio in Don Quixote, the Nutcracker Prince, Arabian Man and Spanish Dance in Alexei Ratmansky's The Nutcracker, von Rothabrt (Ballroom) in Swan Lake and roles in Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes, In the Upper Room and Symphony in C.
Opening Night Gala -
5/13/2013
(New York, New York)
Symphony in C -
5/21/2013, 5/22/2013
(New York, New York)
Don Quixote -
5/29/2013
(New York, New York)
Chamber Symphony -
6/1/2013, 6/3/2013
(New York, New York)
Le Corsaire -
6/6/2013
(New York, New York)
Romeo and Juliet -
6/13/2013
(New York, New York)
Swan Lake -
6/20/2013
(New York, New York)
Le Corsaire -
7/13/2013
(Los Angeles, California)
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