James Whiteside.

James Whiteside, formerly a principal dancer with Boston Ballet, will join American Ballet Theatre as a Soloist in September 2012. It was announced today by Artistic Director Kevin McKenzie.

Born
in Fairfield, Connecticut, 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 includes George Balanchine’s Theme and Variations (Principal), Coppélia (Frantz), Rubies (Principal),
The Four Temperaments (Sanguinic), Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, 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;
Jiří Kylián’s Sarabande, Petite Mort, and Sechs Tänze; Twyla Tharp’s In
the Upper Room and Mark Morris’ Drink
to Me Only With Thine Eyes.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.

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