Yvonne Borree is a former principal dancer at New York City Ballet. She was raised in Norfolk, Virginia, where she began her dance studies with the Tidewater Ballet Association at four years of age.
She attended the School of American Ballet for three summers and was invited to enter SAB full-time in 1985. Two years later Yvonne became an apprentice with SAB's parent company, New York City Ballet, and joined the corps de ballet in 1988. she danced with guest artist Mikhail Baryshnikov in George Balanchine's "Duo Concertant" in Spring, 1992.
Ms. Borree was promoted to the rank of soloist the next year and to principal in 1997. She is the daughter of Susan Borree, who danced with Jerome Robbins' Ballets: USA, with New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theatre. Yvonne Borree's farewell performance took place Sunday, June 6, 2010,NY Times by Claudia La Rocco, June 7th, 2010 and consisted of ballets by Christopher Wheeldon and George Balanchine: Estancia Duo Concertant Brahms–Schoenberg Quartet
Originated rôles
Robert La Fosse Danses De Cour
Miriam Mahdaviani Correlazione
Peter Martins
Ash The Chairman Dances Delight of the Muses Fearful Symmetries Jazz, or Six Syncopated Movements Quartet for Strings Sinfonia The Sleeping Beauty The White Cat in Puss In Boots Slonimsky's Earbox Stabat Mater Thou Swell
Christopher Wheeldon Carnival of the Animals
Featured rôles
George Balanchine Apollo Coppélia (Swanilda) Divertimento No. 15 Donizetti Variations Duo Concertant The Four Temperaments The Nutcracker Sugarplum Fairy and Dewdrop Harlequinade Colombine Raymonda Variations Scotch Symphony La Sonnambula Square Dance The Steadfast Tin Soldier Stravinsky Violin Concerto Symphony in C Symphony in Three Movements Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux Union Jack Western Symphony
Sean Lavery Romeo and Juliet
Peter Martins A Fool for You The Sleeping Beauty Princess Aurora Swan Lake
Kevin O'Day Dvorak Bagatelles Badchonim, or Merry-Makers
Jerome Robbins The Concert Dances at a Gathering The Four Seasons The Goldberg Variations In the Night Mother Goose
Christopher Wheeldon Mercurial Manoeuvres
Television
Dance in America, George Balanchine's Western Symphony PBS Live from Lincoln Center, New York City Ballet's Diamond Project: Ten Years of New Choreography, 2002, Peter Martins' Them Twos
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