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David Gabriel

David Gabriel was born in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, where he began his dance training at the age of eight at Glenwood Dance Academy, under DeAnna Anderson, which became Aspen Santa Fe Ballet School, under Melanie Doskocil. At 15, he continued his training at Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet with Marcia Dale Weary and Darla Hoover. He attended the 2019 summer program at the School of American Ballet, the official school of New York City Ballet, and enrolled full-time at SAB for the winter term that year. As a student at SAB, Gabriel received the Rudolph Nureyev scholarship. Gabriel became an apprentice with NYCB in August 2021 and joined the corps de ballet in May 2022.

As an apprentice, Gabriel performed a featured role in George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker (Tea).

Mr. Gabriel was promoted to the rank of soloist in June 2024. 

Portrait © Erin Baiano

GEORGE BALANCHINE

  • Ballade
  • Ballo della Regina
  • Bourrée Fantasque 
  • Danses Concertantes
  • Divertimento from ‘Le Baiser de la Fée’
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream (Oberon)
  • Minkus Pas de Trois (from Alexei Ratmansky’s ‘Paquita’)
  • George Balanchine's The Nutcracker® (Cavalier, Tea, Candy Cane, Soldier)
  • Sonatine
  • La Sonnambula
  • Symphony in Three Movements
  • Variations pour une Porte et un Soupir

AUGUST BOURNONVILLE

  • Flower Festival in Genzano Pas de Deux

KEERATI JINAKUNWIPHAT

  • Fortuitous Ash

PETER MARTINS

  • Hallelujah Junction 
  • The Sleeping Beauty (Prince Désiré, Gold, Bluebird, Court Jesters) 
  • Swan Lake (Benno)

JUSTIN PECK

  • Belles-Lettres
  • Copland Dance Episodes
  • Heatscape
  • Year of the Rabbit

TILER PECK

  • Concerto for Two Pianos

ALEXEI RATMANSKY

  • Concerto DSCH
  • Voices

JEROME ROBBINS

  • Brandenburg
  • The Concert
  • Dances at a Gathering
  • The Four Seasons
  • The Goldberg Variations
  • Interplay

KYLE ABRAHAM

  • When We Fell

AMY HALL GARNER

  • Underneath, There Is Light

Justin Peck

  • Mystic Familiar

Alexei Ratmansky

  • The Naked King

Gianna Reisen

  • Play Time

TILER PECK

  • Concerto for Two Pianos

Alysa Pires

  • Standard Deviation

FAVORITE PHRASE

DAVID GABRIEL

"This is my favorite moment because it’s very romantic and the movement is very lyrical, and almost adagio, which is not typical for a male role,” says David Gabriel about his favorite phrase from George Balanchine’s Ballade.

HONORS

Gabriel is a recipient of the 2024 Clive Barnes Award in Dance.