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Emily Kikta

Emily Kikta was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and began her dance training at the Thomas Studio of Performing Arts in Pittsburgh before studying at the Ballet Academy of Pittsburgh.

Ms. Kikta began studying at the School of American Ballet (SAB), the official school of New York City Ballet, during the summer 2006 course and enrolled as a full-time student in 2008.

Ms. Kikta became an apprentice with NYCB in October 2010 and joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet in August 2011.

Ms. Kikita was promoted to the rank of soloist in January 2022.

Portrait © Erin Baiano

GEORGE BALANCHINE

  • Apollo
  • Bourree Fantasque 
  • Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet (First Movement)
  • Chaconne
  • Coppélia (War and Discord)
  • Divertimento No. 15
  • Episodes
  • The Four Temperaments
  • Kammermusik No. 2
  • George Balanchine's The Nutcracker® (Coffee, Dewdrop, Flowers, Sugarplum Fairy)
  • Orpheus
  • Raymonda Variations
  • "Rubies" from Jewels
  • The Sleeping Beauty (Diamond)
  • Swan Lake
  • Symphony in C
  • Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No.2
  • La Valse
  • Western Symphony 

WILLIAM FORSYTHE

  • Herman Schmerman

PETER MARTINS

  • A Midsummer Night's Dream (Hippolyta)
  • The Sleeping Beauty (Lilac Fairy)
  • Swan Lake (Hungarian, Queen)

JUSTIN PECK

  • Everywhere We Go
  • Partita
  • Year of the Rabbit

ALEXEI RATMANSKY

  • Voices

JEROME ROBBINS

  • The Cage

PAM TANOWITZ

  • Bartók Ballet
  • Gustave le Gray No.1

Kyle Abraham

  • Love Letter (on shuffle)

Sidra Bell

  • pixelation in a wave (Within Wires)
  • SUSPENDED ANIMATION

Silas Farley

  • Architects of Time

Peter Martins

  • Ocean's Kingdom (Amazon Women)

Justin Peck

  • Copland Dance Episodes

Jamar Roberts

  • Emanon – In Two Movements

Pam Tanowitz

  • Bartók Ballet

Peter Walker

  • ten in seven

Justin Peck

  • Principia

Troy Schumacher

  • The Wind Still Brings

SCREEN TEST

EMILY KIKTA

Ballet runs in the blood of Pittsburgh native Emily Kikta, who basically learned to walk (and then, to dance) at her mother's ballet studio. Emily shares how the move to New York City hardened her resolve to be self-sufficient, and why her hometown roots keep her grounded.

ANATOMY OF A DANCE

EMILY KIKTA ON BALANCHINE’S SWAN LAKE

Relatively up-tempo and plentiful in steps, the “Valse Bluette” feels like "performing ballet class" to Emily Kikta. Despite the challenges of moving fully within the variation's classical parameters, Kikta relishes the opportunity to rejoin her flock of black swans as a soloist.

Anatomy of a Dance

Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet with Emily Kikta

Emily Kikta describes her solo in the first movement of Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet, the first plotless work Balanchine choreographed for the much larger stage of our Lincoln Center home, and how it prepares the stage for the extravagance, elegance, and exuberance to come with her dramatic entrance.