Evan McKie is a ballet dancer. In 2008, after his internationally acclaimed portrayal of Kevin O'Day's HAMLET, he achieved the highest rank of ballet dancer at The Stuttgart Ballet

Stuttgart Ballet

Stuttgart Ballet was the first major German ballet company. It rose to fame in the 1960s under Artistic Director John Cranko. The company, which is renowned for presentations of full-length narrative ballets including Romeo and Juliet, Eugene Onegin, The Taming of the Shrew, John Neumeier's Die...

 (Germany).
McKie is also a photographer and published writer.

Biography

McKie received his dance training from The National Ballet School of Canada, The Kirov Academy of Ballet

Kirov Academy of Ballet

The Kirov Academy of Ballet of Washington, D.C. is a ballet school that serves students in grades 7 through 12 and offers a high school diploma in addition to its dance instruction...

 and the John Cranko

John Cranko

John Cyril Cranko was a choreographer with the Sadler's Wells Ballet and the Stuttgart Ballet....

 School, Stuttgart upon special invitation from Pyotr Pestov.

He has received critical acclaim for many roles including Hamlet, Onegin, Siegfried in Swan Lake, Prince Desire in The Sleeping Beauty among others. He appeared in Dance Europe (London) Magazine's 2010 Critic's Choice List for his portrayal of Albrecht in Reid Anderson/Valentina Savina's version of Giselle in Stuttgart. Many of the world's top choreographers have created especially for him including Wayne McGregor

Wayne McGregor

Wayne McGregor CBE is a British choreographer of contemporary modern dance. His work is highly distinctive in its vocabulary of movement, for its integration of dance with film and visual art, and for his active interest and incorporation of computer technology and biological science...

, Marco Goecke, Mauro Bigonzetti

Mauro Bigonzetti

Mauro Bigonzetti is an internationally acclaimed choreographer of contemporary ballet. Born in Rome in 1960, Bigonzetti trained at the ballet school of Teatro dell'Opera di Roma and entered their company in 1979. In 1983 he joined the Reggio Emilia company Aterballetto, renowned for its...

, Christian Spuck, Kevin O'Day and Douglas Lee. McKie has also worked with legendary choreographers John Neumeier

John Neumeier

John Neumeier is a well-known American ballet dancer, choreographer, and director. He has been the director and chief choreographer of the Hamburg Ballet since 1973. 5 years later he founded the Hamburg Ballet School, which also includes a boarding school...

 and Glen Tetley

Glen Tetley

Glen Tetley was an American ballet and modern dancer as well as a choreographer who mixed ballet and modern dance to create a new way of looking at dance, and is best known for his piece Pierrot Lunaire.-Biography:Glenford Andrew Tetley, Jr. was born on February 3, 1926 in Cleveland, Ohio...

and has danced in Japan, South Korea, China, Thailand, Africa, United States, England, Canada, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Russia. He has danced with some of the world's most sought after ballerinas.

McKie has also written several articles for Dance Magazine in New York.

Quotes

"Onstage, McKie is Svengali, turning himself inside out."
-Dance International Magazine



McKie moves with body and soul. He dances with technique, artistry and the brave sort of imagination that can fly free.
To watch him dance is to understand how theatre can buoy the spirit, lift up the heart and fire the imagination. That’s very rare indeed.
-Gary Smith. Critic for Dance International and Dance Europe Magazine.



Of today's Ballet's stars, Evan McKie is one of the brightest.
-Danse (Paris)-



Onstage, boundaries can get very blurry. Chemistry is chemistry. (laugh) Isn't that what we all love about it?
-Evan McKie in an interview with Diane Pernet for ashadedviewonfashion.com



Music inspires me to dance because of that dramatic connection to each note. Little pictures flash through the mind. It starts out so pure and simple, but through each movement the music usually proves its endless dramatic possibility. Those flashing pictures and feelings are the part of the moving plus music equation that becomes the dance.
-McKie in an interview from theballetbag.com

Other Information

Shōjo manga artist Kyoko Ariyoshi once drew McKie as a MANGA character in Japanese manga The Swan --

• Other Famous dancers who have been regarded as Danseur Noble in Dance history are Sir Anthony Dowell, Rudolph Nureyev and Erik Bruhn.

(-wikipedia)

• McKie is also a topic of continued interest on fashion blogs such as www.ashadedviewonfashion.com & 'Pop' magazine's www.hommestar.com -
• see also, McKie interview with www.theballetbag.com