David Hallberg began jazz and tap classes at the age of ten. He began his formal ballet training at thirteen, and in 1999 was accepted into the Paris Opera Ballet School. He joined the American Ballet Theatre in 2001 and became a principal dancer in 2006. He joined the Bolshoi Ballet as a Premier Danseur in September 2011, the first American to join the company with that title. He has performed in the world’s greatest opera houses with companies including the Mariinsky Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, Teatro Colon/Buenos Aires, La Scala/Milan, the Royal Swedish Ballet, and the Australian Ballet. In 2017, Hallberg became Resident Guest Artist with the Australian Ballet. He won the Benois de la Danse Award in 2010, was a recipient of the Princess Grace Fellowship in 2002 and its Statue Award in 2014, and was given the merging Artist Award from Americans for the Arts in 2014. He lives in New York City. A Body of Work is his first book. |
