Andrew Robare

Winchester, Virginia

Joined ABT 2021

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Biography

Photo: Kyle Froman.

Andrew Robare was born in Winchester, Virginia. He began tap classes at the age of six, adding other dance styles before starting ballet with his mother at age 12 at the Shenandoah Conservatory Arts Academy of Shenandoah University. In 2017, he received a full scholarship to the University of North Carolina School of the Arts high school ballet program under the direction of Dean Susan Jaffe. An American Ballet Theatre National Training Scholar, he attended ABT’s New York Summer Intensive for three years. In September 2018, Robare enrolled in the ABT Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School and was invited to join ABT Studio Company in October 2018.

Robare became an apprentice with the main Company in November 2021 and joined the corps de ballet in May 2022. His repertoire includes Mother Ginger in Alexei Ratmansky’s The Nutcracker, von Rothbart and the Neapolitan Dance in Swan Lake, Apollo in Sylvia, “Becomings” in Woolf Works, and leading roles in Bach Partita and Sextet. He created a leading role in in Children’s Songs Dance and a featured role in Mercurial Son.

ABT is grateful to Brian H. Vincent for supporting the Dancer Fund in honor of Andrew Robare.