Maria Kowroski is a principal ballerina at the New York City Ballet.

Ms. Kowroski's training in ballet began at the School of
the Grand Rapids Ballet and subsequently the School of American Ballet

School of American Ballet

The School of American Ballet is one of the most famous classical ballet schools in the world and is the associate school of the New York City Ballet, a leading international ballet company based at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. The school trains students from the...

 in 1992; became an apprentice with New York City Ballet

New York City Ballet

New York City Ballet is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Leon Barzin was the company's first music director. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company...

 in 1994 and joined the corps de ballet in 1995. Ms. Kowroski was promoted to soloist in 1997 and principal dancer

Principal dancer

A principal dancer is a dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company....

 in 1999. She has performed as a guest artist with the Maryinsky ballet in productions of Swan Lake

Swan Lake

Swan Lake ballet, op. 20, by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, composed 1875–1876. The scenario, initially in four acts, was fashioned from Russian folk tales and tells the story of Odette, a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer's curse. The choreographer of the original production was Julius Reisinger...

and Jewels

Jewels (ballet)

Jewels is an award-winning ballet in three parts created for New York City Ballet by co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine. It premièred on Thursday,...

, as well as with the Munich Ballet in Apollo

Apollo (ballet)

Apollo is a ballet in two tableaux composed between 1927 and 1928 by Igor Stravinsky. It was choreographed by balletmaster George Balanchine in 1928, the composer contributing the libretto...

and Brahms Schoenberg Quartet. Ms. Kowroski was the recipient of the Princess Grace Award

Princess Grace Foundation-USA

The Princess Grace Foundation-USA is a national foundation in the United States which is dedicated to identifying and assisting emerging talent in theater, dance, and film by awarding grants in the form of scholarships, apprenticeships, and fellowships. It was named after Princess Grace of Monaco....

 in 1994. She Is currently dancing with New York City Ballet as a Principal Dancer

Susan Stroman

Susan Stroman

Susan Stroman is an American theatre director, choreographer, film director, and performer. She has won the Tony Award for both her choreography and direction, notably for the stage musical The Producers.-Early years:...

 

• Double Feature
  • The Blue Necklace
    • Dorothy Brooks

• Duke!
  • Blossom Got Kissed

George Balanchine

George Balanchine

George Balanchine , born Giorgi Balanchivadze in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to a Georgian father and a Russian mother, was one of the 20th century's most famous choreographers, a developer of ballet in the United States, co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet...

 

• Agon
• Apollo
• Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet
  • Fourth Movement
• Chaconne
• Concerto Barocco
• Cortège Hongrois
• Episodes (Bach)
• Firebird
• The Four Temperaments
• The Nutcracker
  • Sugarplum Fairy
  • Dewdrop
  • Coffee
• Ivesiana
• Jewels
  • Emeralds
  • Rubies
  • Diamonds
• Kammermusik No. 2
• Liebeslieder Walzer
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • Titania
• Monumentum pro Gesualdo
• Movements for Piano and Orchestra
• Mozartiana
• Prodigal Son
• Robert Schumann's "Davidsbündlertänze"
• Slaughter on Tenth Avenue
• Swan Lake
• Serenade
• Symphony in C
  • Second Movement
• Union Jack
  • RCAF
  • Wrens
• La Valse
• Variations pour une Porte et un Soupir

Jerome Robbins

Jerome Robbins

Jerome Robbins was an American theater producer, director, and choreographer known primarily for Broadway Theater and Ballet/Dance, but who also occasionally directed films and directed/produced for television. His work has included everything from classical ballet to contemporary musical theater...

 

• Antique Epigraphs
• The Cage
• The Concert
• Dances at a Gathering
• Fanfare
• The Goldberg Variations
• I'm Old Fashioned
• In G Major
• In the Night
• Moves
• Piano Pieces

Peter Martins

• Harmonielehre
• River of Light
• The Sleeping Beauty
  • Lilac Fairy
  • Carabosse
  • Diamond
• Swan Lake
• Suite from Histoire du Soldat
• Todo Buenos Aires
• The Waltz Project

Richard Tanner

• Ancient Airs and Dances
• Schoenberg/Wuorinen Variations
• Sonatas and Interludes

External links

• NYCB website
• Facebook
• Mariinsky Theatre website
• Christian Science Monitor, Iris Fanger, January 25, 2002
• Grand Rapids Press, Jeffrey Kaczmarczyk, September 16, 2011