Ashley Bouder
Ashley Bouder was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and began her ballet training at the age of six at the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet with Marcia Dale Weary.
After attending the 1999 Summer Program at the School of American Ballet (SAB), the official school of New York City Ballet, she was invited by SAB to continue her training during the Winter Session.
As a student, Ms. Bouder performed featured roles in Balanchine's Dances Concertantes and Stars and Stripes for the School of American Ballet's 2000 Annual Spring Workshop.
Ms. Bouder was named an apprentice with New York City Ballet in June 2000 and became a member of the corps de ballet that October. She was promoted to the rank of soloist in February 2004, and in January 2005, Ms. Bouder was promoted to principal dancer.
DAVID ALLAN
- Reunions
GEORGE BALANCHINE
- Apollo (Polyhymnia)
- Ballo della Regina
- Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet (First Movement)
- Coppélia (Swanilda)
- Cortège Hongrois
- Divertimento No. 15
- Donizetti Variations
- Duo Concertant
- "Emeralds" from Jewels
- Firebird
- The Four Temperaments
- Harlequinade (Colombine, Lead Alouette)
- Liebeslieder Walzer
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (Divertissement, Butterfly)
- George Balanchine's The Nutcracker® (Sugarplum Fairy, Dewdrop, Marzipan)
- Raymonda Variations
- "Rubies" from Jewels
- Scotch Symphony
- Serenade
- Sonatine
- La Sonnambula
- La Source
- Square Dance
- Stars and Stripes
- Symphony in C (First and Third Movements)
- Symphony in Three Movements
- Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux
- Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2
- Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3
- Union Jack (Scottish and Canadian Guards Regiments and Royal Navy)
- La Valse
- Valse-Fantaisie
- VIenna Waltzes
- Western Symphony (Rondo)
- Who Cares?
MAURO BIGONZETTI
- Vespro
AUGUST BOURNONVILLE
- Flower Festival in Genzano (Pas de Deux)
- La Sylphide (The Sylph)
CHRISTOPHER D'AMBOISE
- Tribute (NYCB Premiere)
JORMA ELO
- Slice to Sharp
DOUGLAS LEE
- Lifecasting
PETER MARTINS
- Barber Violin Concerto
- Fearful Symmetries
- A Fool for You (Rockhouse)
- Naïve and Sentimental Music
- Octet (NYCB Premiere)
- The Sleeping Beauty (Aurora, Diamond)
- Swan Lake (Odette/Odile, Pas de Quatre)
ALEXEI RATMANSKY
- Namouna, A Grand Divertissement
- Odesa
JEROME ROBBINS
- Andantino
- Brandenburg
- The Concert
- Dances at a Gathering
- The Four Seasons (Winter, Fall)
- Four Bagatelles
- The Goldberg Variations
- I'm Old Fashioned
- Interplay
- Other Dances
JEROME ROBBINS AND TWYLA THARP
- Brahms/Handel
RICHARD TANNER
- Ancient Airs and Dances
CHRISTOPHER WHEELDON
- DGV: Danse à Grande Vitesse (NYCB Premiere)
- Mercurial Manoeuvres
Kyle Abraham
- The Runaway
Mauro Bigonzetti
- Luce Nascosta
Warren Carlyle
- SOMETHING TO DANCE ABOUT Jerome Robbins, Broadway to Ballet
Albert Evans
- Broken Promise
Edwaard Liang
- Lineage
Wayne McGregor
- Outlier
Peter Martins
- Bal de Couture
- Grazioso
- Viva Verdi
Justin Peck
- New Blood
- Year of the Rabbit
Alexei Ratmansky
- Concerto DSCH
Liam Scarlett
- Acheron
Troy Schumacher
- Clearing Dawn
Susan Stroman
- "The Blue Necklace" from Double Feature (Mabel)
Richard Tanner
- Soirée
Christopher Wheeldon
- Shambards
Anatomy of a Dance
Ashley Bouder on The Four Seasons
FILM CREDITS
In 2002, Ms. Bouder appeared in the nationally televised Live from Lincoln Center broadcast "New York City Ballet's Diamond Project: Ten Years of New Choreography" on PBS, dancing in Mercurial Manoeuvres. In 2011, Ms. Bouder danced the role of Dewdrop in PBS' Live from Lincoln Center telecast of George Balanchine's The Nutcracker®, which was also screened in movie theaters around the world.
HONORS
Ms. Bouder is the recipient of a 2019 Benois de la Dance award for best female dancer. She was a recipient of the Mae L. Wien Award for Outstanding Promise in 2000 and was the Janice Levin Dancer Honoree for 2002-2003.
Portrait © Erin Baiano