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Whiteside_James – Dancer
Fairfield, Connecticut
Joined ABT 2012 / Principal since 2013
Photo: Emil Cohen.
ABT is grateful to Joan Mischo and Lillian E. Kraemer for supporting the Dancer Fund in honor of James Whiteside.
Upcoming Performances
July 8, 2023
2:00 pm
2:00 pm
New York, New York
Metropolitan Opera House
Metropolitan Opera House
Giselle
(Albrecht)
(Albrecht)
July 12, 2023
7:30 pm
7:30 pm
New York, New York
Metropolitan Opera House
Metropolitan Opera House
Swan Lake
(Prince Siegfried)
(Prince Siegfried)
July 21, 2023
7:30 pm
7:30 pm
New York, New York
Metropolitan Opera House
Metropolitan Opera House
Romeo and Juliet
(Romeo)
(Romeo)
Repertoire
* created role
- AfterEffect (2015) - The Man*
- AFTERITE - Leading Role*
- Bach Partita - Leading Role
- La Bayadère - Solor
- The Brahms-Haydn Variations - Leading Role
- Chamber Symphony - Leading Role
- Cinderella (Ashton) - The Prince
- Le Corsaire - Conrad; Ali, the Slave
- Daphnis and Chloe - Daphnis; Bryaxis
- Deuce Coupe - Featured Role
- Don Quixote (McKenzie/Jones) - Basilio; Espada
- The Dream - Oberon
- Dream within a Dream (deferred) - Featured Role*
- Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes - Featured Role
- Duo Concertant - Leading Role
- Fancy Free - Third Sailor
- La Fille mal gardée (Ashton) - Colas
- Garden Blue - Leading Role*
- Giselle (McKenzie) - Albrecht
- The Golden Cockerel - Astrologer
- Gong - Featured Role
- Harlequinade (Ratmansky) - Harlequin*
- Her Notes - Leading Role
- In the Upper Room - Featured Role
- Jane Eyre - Edward Rochester
- Let Me Sing Forevermore - Leading Role
- Manon - Lescaut
- The Nutcracker (Ratmansky) - Nutcracker, the Prince
- Of Love and Rage - Dionysius*
- On the Dnieper - Olga's Fiancé
- Othello - Iago
- Pillar of Fire - The Young Man from the House Opposite
- Raymonda Divertissements (Kolpakova/McKenzie) - Leading Role
- Romeo and Juliet (MacMillan) - Romeo
- The Seasons - Zephyr*
- Serenade after Plato's Symposium - Leading Role*
- Sinfonietta - Featured Role
- The Sleeping Beauty (Ratmansky) - Prince Désiré
- Swan Lake (McKenzie) - Prince Siegfried; von Rothbart
- Sylvia - Orion
- Symphonic Variations - Leading Role
- Symphony in C - First Movement
- Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux - Leading Role
- The Tempest - Caliban
- Theme and Variations - Leading Role
- A Time There Was - Leading Role
- Valse Fantaisie - Leading Role
- Whipped Cream - Prince Coffee
- With a Chance of Rain - Leading Role*
- ZigZag - Leading Role
Milestones
2013
Promoted to Principal Dancer October 2013
James Whiteside in Chamber Symphony. Photo: Rosalie O'Connor
2018
Choreographed City of Women for ABT Incubator
Isabella Boylston, Gillian Murphy and Catherine Hurlin in City of Women. Photo: JJ Geiger.
2019
Choreographed New American Romance, his first work for ABT
Photo: Erin Baiano, courtesy Vail Dance Festival.