Jason Fowler studied ballet at the Dallas Ballet Center and entered the

School of American Ballet The School of American Ballet (SAB) is the most renowned ballet school in the United States. School of American Ballet is the associate school of the New York City Ballet, a ballet company based at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New ...

in 1993. While there he danced selections from Balanchine's ''Agon'', '' Cortège Hongrois'', ''The Nutcracker'' and ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''. Fowler became an apprentice with

New York City Ballet New York City Ballet (NYCB) is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company. Léon Barzin was the company' ...

in 1995, joined the corps de ballet in 1996 and was promoted to soloist in 2006.

Originated rôles

Mauro Bigonzetti

Vespro ''Vespro'' is a ballet by Mauro Bigonzetti to eponymous music of Bruno Moretti, commissioned by New York City Ballet. The première took place Saturday, May 8, 2002, as part of Diamond Project V at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center. '' ...

In Vento {{Use mdy dates, date=October 2011 ''In Vento'' is a ballet by Mauro Bigonzetti, artistic director of Italy's Aterballetto dance company, to eponymous music of Bruno Moretti. It was commissioned as part of New York City Ballet's Diamond Project. ...

Susan Stroman

*Double Feature, ''The Blue Necklace'', Mr. Griffith

Christopher Wheeldon

Polyphonia ''Polyphonia'' is a one-act ballet choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon to music by György Ligeti, costumes designed by Holly Hynes, and was created for the New York City Ballet. It premiered on January 4, 2001 at the New York State Theater. I ...

Featured rôles

George Balanchine

Agon Agon (Greek ) is a Greek term for a conflict, struggle or contest. This could be a contest in athletics, in chariot or horse racing, or in music or literature at a public festival in ancient Greece. Agon is the word-forming element in 'agony', ...

*Chaconne *Divertimento No. 15 *

The Nutcracker ''The Nutcracker'' ( rus, Щелкунчик, Shchelkunchik, links=no ) is an 1892 two-act ballet (""; russian: балет-феерия, link=no, ), originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaiko ...

**Hot Chocolate **Host *

A Midsummer Night's Dream ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' is a comedy written by William Shakespeare 1595 or 1596. The play is set in Athens, and consists of several subplots that revolve around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta. One subplot involves a conflict amon ...

**Titania's Cavalier **Demetrius **Theseus *

Scotch Symphony ''Scotch Symphony'' is a ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 3, "Scottish". The ballet is inspired by Scotland, and evokes the style of the romantic ballet era, particularly ''La Sylphide'', which is set in Sc ...

*Slaughter on Tenth Avenue *Union Jack *La Valse *Vienna Waltzes

Boris Eifman

*Musagète

Peter Martins

*The Sleeping Beauty ''European tour'' *

Swan Lake ''Swan Lake'' ( rus, Лебеди́ное о́зеро, r=Lebedínoye ózero, p=lʲɪbʲɪˈdʲinəjə ˈozʲɪrə, link=no ), Op. 20, is a ballet composed by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1875–76. Despite its initial failur ...

**Hungarian **Russian **Spanish

Jerome Robbins

*The Four Seasons **Janus *Glass Pieces *The Goldberg Variations

Christopher Wheeldon

*After The Rain

Reviews

NY Times

Jennifer Dunning Jennifer Dunning (born February 4, 1942) is a writer and critic for ''The New York Times'' on the subjects of dance and ballet. She is the author of the 1985 ''But First a School: The First Fifty Years of the School of American Ballet'', the 1996 ...

June 18, 2002
NY Times

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