Jarod Curley

Photo: Karolina Kuras.

Jarod Curley was born in Bethesda, Maryland, and began his ballet training at the Frederick School of Classical Ballet before continuing his studies at CityDance Conservatory and the Next Generation Ballet under the direction of Peter Stark. During his training, he earned honors in both the solo and pas de deux divisions of Youth America Grand Prix and was a finalist at the 2015 Prix de Lausanne, where he received an invitation to study at the John Cranko School in Stuttgart, Germany.

Curley joined American Ballet Theatre Studio Company in September 2016, became an apprentice with the main Company in December 2018, and joined the corps de ballet in June 2019. He was promoted to Soloist in March 2024 and to Principal Dancer in September 2026.

His repertoire includes Razumikhin and Porfiry in Crime and Punishment, the Grand Pas de Deux from Don Quixote, Ivan in Alexei Ratmansky’s Firebird, Partner to the Italian Ballerina in Gala Performance, Hilarion in Giselle, Dr. John Brown in Like Water for Chocolate, Neo, Nutcracker Prince, Mouse King, Arabian Man, and Spanish Dance in Ratmansky’s The Nutcracker, Mithridates and Ariston in Of Love and Rage, Sergiy in On the Dnipro, Onegin and Prince Gremin in Onegin, Head Wrangler in Rodeo, Lord Montague in Romeo and Juliet, Winter in The Seasons, Rose Pas de Trois in Susan Jaffe’s The Sleeping Beauty, Act III, Some Assembly Required, Prince Siegfried and von Rothbart in Swan Lake, the Act III pas de deux from Sylvia, “Becomings” in Woolf Works, leading roles in Bach Partita, La Boutique, Études, Piano Concerto No. 1, Serenade after Plato’s Symposium, Theme and Variations, and ZigZag, and featured roles in Push Comes to Shove, Raymonda: Grand Pas Hongrois, and Sinfonietta. He created a featured role in Collage & Creed.

ABT is grateful to the O’Neill Family Charitable Trust for supporting the Dancer Fund in honor of Jarod Curley.