Another side of wonderful Dancer James Whiteside... Principal with the ABT...
Whiteside was named a Principal Dancer at ABT in 2013.
His incredible repertoire with the Company: Solor in "La Bayadère", the Prince in Frederick Ashton's "Cinderella", Ali, the Slave in "Le Corsaire", Basil and Espada in "Don Quixote", Oberon in "The Dream", the third sailor in "Fancy Free", Albrecht in "Giselle", Lescaut in "Manon", the Nutcracker Prince in Alexei Ratmansky's "The Nutcracker", Iago in "Othello", Romeo in "Romeo and Juliet", Prince Désiré in "The Sleeping Beauty", Prince Siegfried and von Rothbart in "Swan Lake", Orion in "Sylvia", Caliban in "The Tempest" and so many otherleading roles like in "Bach Partita", "Duo Concertant", "Chamber Symphony", "Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes", "Sinfonietta", "Symphony in C", "Theme and Variations"...
I have just seen him in Giselle and La Bayadére and was quite impressed by his classical qualities and looks.
This is probably the reason why I was more than delighted and suprised to find him in this video... somewhere in Brooklyn? Queens?
And I will not tell you much about it. I have just "borrowed" from his own Blog. You'll have to watch it... It could be called "Dance by Woody Allen".
I like that a lot: a classical Dancer that is also preocuppied with other (dance) forms of expression. And as it seems, James Whiteside does not really care about what people think about him...
His Blog (visit it!): http://www.jameswhiteside.org/blog-ballet/
Bravo, James, Chapeau!
