Guest Instructor – Choreographer
Ballet
Robbie Fairchild is a soloist with the New York City Ballet. He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and began dance training at the age of ten at the Ballet West Conservatory. Mr. Fairchild attended the 2002 and 2003 summer courses at the School of American Ballet (SAB), the official school of New York City Ballet, and enrolled as a full time student in the fall of 2003. In June 2005, Mr. Fairchild became an apprentice with NYCB, and the following June, he joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet. He was promoted to soloist in May 2007. Since joining New York City Ballet, Mr. Fairchild has danced featured roles in: George Balanchine’s The NutcrackerTM (Mother Ginger), The Sleeping Beauty (Puss in Boots and Wolf), Peter Martins’ Romeo + Juliet (Romeo), Mauro Bigonzetti’s In Vento, Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux’s Two Birds with the Wings of One, and Eliot Feld’s Intermezzo No. 1. Mr. Fairchild was the 2005 recipient of the Mae L. Wein Award.