Cynthia Harvey was born on May 17,1957 and is an American former ballet dancer, ballet mistress and educator.
22 Facts About Cynthia Harvey
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Cynthia Harvey joined the American Ballet Theatre in 1974 and was promoted to principal dancer in 1982.
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Cynthia Harvey returned to ABT two years later, and retired in 1996.
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Cynthia Harvey then started teaching and staging ballets across the world.
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Cynthia Harvey's mother, who is of Mexican descent, was an office manager.
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Cynthia Harvey then trained with a local teacher, while spending summers at the San Francisco Ballet School and School of American Ballet on scholarship, and performed with both local and visiting ballet companies.
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Cynthia Harvey was accepted, and unusually, she was given a scholarship that covered both ballet and academics.
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Cynthia Harvey moved to New York by herself, and trained for nine months before becoming an apprentice with the company.
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In 1974, at sixteen, Cynthia Harvey joined the American Ballet Theatre.
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Cynthia Harvey made her company debut as a page in a one-act version of The Sleeping Beauty, and was often cast by choreographers Twyla Tharp and Glen Tetley.
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Cynthia Harvey cast her as a flower girl in the ballet.
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In 1980, when Natalia Makarova staged her version of La Bayadere, Cynthia Harvey was chosen to dance the role of Gamzatti at the premiere.
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In 1986, Cynthia Harvey left the American Ballet Theatre to join The Royal Ballet in London, and became the company's first American principal dancer.
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Cynthia Harvey has taught at companies such as ABT, The Australian Ballet, La Scala Ballet, Royal Swedish Ballet, Dresden Semperoper Ballett and Royal Ballet of Flanders, and schools including Royal Ballet School and English National Ballet School.
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Cynthia Harvey founded the London-based ballet nonprofit, En Avant Foundation.
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Cynthia Harvey was a standard assessor for The Council for Dance Education and Training before she stepped down in 2010, and a coach at Prix de Lausanne.
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Cynthia Harvey was a head of the jury at the Prix de Lausanne ballet competition in 2015.
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In 2016, Cynthia Harvey was appointed artistic director of the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School, the affiliated school of ABT, succeeding Franco De Vita.
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Cynthia Harvey stepped down from the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School in May 2022.
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Cynthia Harvey continues to teach, coach and stage ballets, and became a consultant for To the Pointe, a British arts management company.
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In 2023, Cynthia Harvey was named associate guest repetiteur at the English National Ballet.
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Cynthia Harvey moved to England after she retired from performing.