Originally from Dallas, Texas, Mr. Seymour began his training at the age of nine at Dallas Metropolitan Ballet. He continued his training at Ballet Chicago, where he had the opportunity to dance in George Balanchine’s Valse-Fantasie, Serenade, and Divertimento No. 15. Mr. Seymour attended the School of American Ballet’s summer sessions in 2001 and 2002 before enrolling as a full-time student in the fall of 2002. He danced in Peter Martins’ Swan Lake in the 2003 School of American Ballet Workshop Performance at the Juilliard Theater. Mr. Seymour’s previous choreographic experience includes two ballets for the Ballet Chicago Studio Company, set to the music of Antonio Vivaldi and Johann Sebastian Bach. In the fall of 2002, he choreographed a ballet for the School of American Ballet Choreographic Workshop to the music of C.P.E. Bach. Mr. Seymour was a participant in the Spring 2003 session of the New York Choreographic Workshop, for which he created a ballet for 10 dancers to Johannes Brahms’ Intermezzi, First and Second Movements.