The tour to London was approaching quickly. It was going to be strange returning to Europe to perform on a new stage without Marie-Claire...

I remember the excitement like it was yesterday. I was going to be starting as a soloist with The San Francisco Ballet. Nerves,...

We arrived back in Vienna on a whirlwind of emotions. My dreams were coming true and Marie-Claire's nightmare was staring her in the...

It was good to be back in The United States, back in San Francisco...the place I was born. From the time I was a young boy I had hoped...

As we sat on the airplane preparing for the take off of our arduous flight to San Francisco, my eyes closed and I suddenly was drawn back...

I was born in San Francisco and lived there until the age of 11. My parents moved with me at that young age all the way to Washington DC...

Ballet is often seen as an elite art form that takes at least a decade to learn and even longer to master. For many young girls and even...

Ballet is a beautiful art form that is over 400 years old. It has developed out of the French and Italian courts into the technically and...

Sometimes there are dancers who seem to get the roles easily. The ones who are cast well from the moment they enter the company. This...

My whole life has been a practice. From the moment I decided to start walking to my first time on stage to my work with my clients...

I remember being 8 years old in class with my teacher Leslie Crockett at Marin Ballet. I remember hearing for the first time the french...

I could feel exhaustion taking over. Ballet is a challenge, made even more so by the fact that you can't show how hard it really is....

I grew up in the United States, I was born in San Francisco but I attribute my success at becoming a professional dancer to my training...

He sat at the front of the room, his hair was perfectly glued to his head. A blank stare fell from his eyes onto the room. He didn't...

My career ended for the most part because I had extreme pain in my knees. Officially I had Patella tendinopathy, and was often told that...

It had been a long day of learning. I had just arrived home to our apartment, where Marie-Claire and I were living in the 8th district of...