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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
October 21, 2023
7:30 pm
7:30 pm
New York, New York
David H. Koch Theater
David H. Koch Theater
Ballet Imperial
October 24, 2023
6:30 pm
6:30 pm
New York, New York
David H. Koch Theater
David H. Koch Theater
Swan Lake
Act II pas de deux
(Prince Siegfried)
Act II pas de deux
(Prince Siegfried)
October 25, 2023
7:30 pm
7:30 pm
New York, New York
David H. Koch Theater
David H. Koch Theater
Ballet Imperial
October 27, 2023
7:30 pm
7:30 pm
New York, New York
David H. Koch Theater
David H. Koch Theater
On the Dnipro
(Olga's Fiancé)
(Olga's Fiancé)
October 28, 2023
7:30 pm
7:30 pm
New York, New York
David H. Koch Theater
David H. Koch Theater
On the Dnipro
(Olga's Fiancé)
(Olga's Fiancé)
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 Dnipro - 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.