Amar Ramasar was born on 1981 and is an American ballet dancer and former principal dancer of the New York City Ballet.
12 Facts About Amar Ramasar
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In 2018, Amar Ramasar was fired from NYCB for sharing explicit pictures of female dancers without their knowledge or consent.
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In July 2021, the NYCB announced that Amar Ramasar was retiring in May 2022.
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Amar Ramasar took his first dance lesson at the Henry Street Settlement House's Abrons Arts Center in 1993.
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Amar Ramasar was accepted in 1993, and received his first ballet lesson there.
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Amar Ramasar joined the New York City Ballet as an apprentice in 2000, and joined the corps de ballet in 2001.
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Amar Ramasar became a soloist in March 2006, and was promoted to a principal in October 2009.
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In July 2021, the NYCB announced that Amar Ramasar would retire as of May 2022, after his performance in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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Amar Ramasar appeared in NY Export: Opus Jazz, a 2010 film about that ballet.
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Amar Ramasar's first featured review in The New York Times was in 2003:.
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In 2007, Dance Spirit wrote that "Amar Ramasar looked too nice to be a villain" in Romeo and Juliet.
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Amar Ramasar began dating Elysia Dawn Fridkin in 2009, and they married in October 2011.