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Midsummer Night’s Dream Comes True for New York City Ballet Dancer

May 23, 2022 | 3:06 PM
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Photographs of Chun Wai Chan in past performances courtesy of New York City Ballet. Photo credit: Erin Baiano.

By Steve Holt

Thrilling leaps are all in a day’s work for Chun Wai Chan, one of New York City Ballet’s rising stars. Now, he’s making the grand jeté to Principal Dancer with the company.

Chan becomes NYCB’s first Chinese Principal, and only the fourth Asian dancer to win the prestigious position. The promotion comes just in time for their spring season’s grand finale. Chan will be dancing the role of Titania’s Cavalier, in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, choreographed by the company’s legendary founder, George Balanchine, to music by Felix Mendelssohn.

Born in Guangdong China, Chan studied in Guangzhou, before winning a scholarship with the Houston Ballet. He became a Principal there in 2017, and joined the NYCB as a soloist just last August. Since then, he’s been featured in works including Balanchine’s The Four Temperaments and The Nutcracker; Jerome Robbins’ Goldberg Variations and The Four Seasons; Justin Peck’s Pulcinella Variations; and the Black Swan pas de deux from Peter Martins’ Swan Lake.

You can catch this “generous dancer who stands out in a crowd” (The New York Times), in A Midsummer Night’s Dream now through Sunday, May 29, at Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater. Tickets are available at www.nycballet.com or by calling 212-496-0600.

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Sb
Sb
1 year ago

What a glorious physical presence he has and such an uplifting story after all the depressing Asian attacks in NYC

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Jude
Jude
1 year ago

Love this ballet and looking forward to seeing another beautiful dancer shine in it!

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Carol
Carol
1 year ago

Ah, youth. Lol. How old is he?
I’m old enough to have lost my ability to tell….. I’m still mourning Alessandra Ferri and skeptical of this Peck kid. 😂

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m.pipik54
m.pipik54
1 year ago

American Ballet Theatre promoted Joo Won Ahn from Korea to principal two years ago. I don’t remember any articles in the NY Times or here about that. ABT has many other Asian dancers including principal Hee Seo ( woman).

Many more to come as Korea and Japan are producing some of the best classical dancers in the world. China isn’t doing too poorly either.

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