Margaret Tracey was born on March 28,1967 and is an American ballet dancer and educator.
17 Facts About Margaret Tracey
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Margaret Tracey joined the New York City Ballet in 1986, was promoted principal dancer in 1991, and retired in 2002.
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Margaret Tracey served as the director of the Boston Ballet School between 2007 and 2021, dean of the Colburn School's Trudl Zipper Dance Institute since 2023, and slated to become the artistic director of Canada's National Ballet School in 2024.
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Margaret Tracey was born on March 28,1967, in Pueblo, Colorado, to a judge father and dance teacher mother.
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Margaret Tracey started dancing at a young age, trained by her mother and other local teachers.
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Margaret Tracey moved to New York and started the program in 1982, and remained in the school full-time.
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Margaret Tracey won a Princess Grace Award scholarship in 1985, and graduated from the School of American Ballet the following year.
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Margaret Tracey had lead roles in ballets by Balanchine, including "Rubies" from Jewels, Apollo, Symphony in C, Vienna Waltzes, Square Dance, Theme and Variations in Tschaikovsky Suite No 3, Harlequinade, Western Symphony, Agon, Concerto Barocco, Scotch Symphony, and as Swanilda in Balanchine and Danilova's Coppelia.
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Margaret Tracey performed works by Robbins and Martins, and as Princess Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty.
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Margaret Tracey created roles in Robbins' Ives, Songs, Forsythe's Herman Schmerman, Martins' Zakouski, Fearful Symmetries, Les Petits Riens and Reliquary.
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In 2002, at age 34, Margaret Tracey retired from the New York City Ballet, as she intended to spend more time with her family.
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Margaret Tracey started the Next Generation Program, with professional division students working with a local youth orchestra and female and BIPOC choreographers.
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In fall 2020, the high school pre-professional programs of Boston Ballet School and Walnut Hill School merged, with Margaret Tracey becoming the latter's director of dance.
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Margaret Tracey stepped down from the Boston Ballet School in 2021, with short-term plans to teach and consult on a freelance basis, focusing on curriculums and faculty development.
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Margaret Tracey served as the jury president of Prix de Lausanne in 2022.
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Margaret Tracey is slated to become the artistic director of Canada's National Ballet School in 2024.
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In 1996, Margaret Tracey married Russell Kaiser, a fellow New York City Ballet dancer.