Catherine Hurlin

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| occupation = Ballet dancer

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Catherine Hurlin (born {{birth based on age as of date|23|2019|06|21|noage=1}}){{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/21/arts/dance/catherine-hurlin-american-ballet-theater.html|title=Look Out, a Ballet Hurricane Has Made Landfall|newspaper=New York Times|last=Kourlas|first=Gia|date=June 21, 2019}} is an American ballet dancer. She joined the American Ballet Theatre (ABT) in 2014 and was promoted to principal dancer in 2022.

Early life

Hurlin was born in New York City and raised in Westchester County, New York.{{cite news|url=https://www.dancespirit.com/catherine_hurlin-2326047735.html|title=Catherine Hurlin|work=Dance Spirit|date=September 20, 2010}} Her mother, was a Paul Taylor Dance Company dancer and left the company when she was 14 weeks pregnant with Hurlin.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/24/arts/dance/catherine-hurlin-continues-family-history-with-company-b.html|title=Catherine Hurlin Continues Family History With 'Company B'|newspaper=New York Times|last=Kourlas|first=Gia|date=October 23, 2015}} Her father was a stage manager with the company and later Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS's production manager. Hurlin started creative movement at age three, then ballet at age five. When she was eight, her mother sent her to Westchester Dance Academy, a competitive dance school, where Hurlin trained in jazz and lyrical dance in addition to ballet, and performed around the East Coast on weekends. At age 11, she competed at the Youth America Grand Prix, and won a scholarship to the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School (JKO School).{{cite news|url=https://www.pointemagazine.com/catherine-hurlin-aran-bell-abt-2641653187.html|title=American Ballet Theatre's Catherine Hurlin and Aran Bell Are on the Fast Track Towards Stardom|magazine=Pointe Magazine|last=Harss|first=Marina|date=December 21, 2019}} At the time, she preferred lyrical dance and later recalled her mother "dragged" her to the school, though gradually found herself enjoying ballet and decided to pursue it professionally.

Career

Between age eleven and thirteen, Hurlin performed in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular as Clara.{{cite news|url=https://www.dancemagazine.com/youll-never-guess-which-dancers-made-their-stage-debut-as-a-radio-city-clara-2621879853.html|title=You'll Never Guess Which Dancers Made Their Stage Debut as a Radio City Clara|magazine=Dance Magazine|last=Foster|first=Hannah|date=December 3, 2018}} In 2010, whilst she was a student with the JKO School, she created the role of Young Clara in Alexei Ratmansky's The Nutcracker, which was performed by the American Ballet Theatre.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/25/arts/dance/25abt.html|title=A 'Nutcracker' Sprouts Alter Egos|newspaper=New York Times|last=Macaulay|first=Alastair|date=December 24, 2010}}

Hurlin first danced with the American Ballet Theatre's Studio Company, then became an apprentice with the main company in 2013, and a corps de ballet member in 2014. In 2015, she danced Taylor's Company B, which had been created when her mother was in his company. Whilst in the corps de ballet, she also created a role in Morris' After You, and the role of Mademoiselle Marianne Chartreuse in Ratmansky's Whipped Cream.{{cite news|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwdance/article/Zhong-Jing-Fang-Catherine-Hurlin-and-Katherine-Williams-Promoted-To-Soloist-With-American-Ballet-Theatre-20180630|title=Zhong-Jing Fang, Catherine Hurlin and Katherine Williams Promoted To Soloist With American Ballet Theatre|work=BroadwayWorld|date=June 20, 2018}} She also performed solo roles in The Sleeping Beauty,{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/arts/dance/nyc-this-weekend-dance.html|title=7 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend|work=New York Times|last=Kourlas|first=Gia|date=June 27, 2019}} La Bayadère, Le Corsaire, Don Quixote, Giselle, Swan Lake, Ratmansky's The Firebird and MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet.

Hurlin was promoted to soloist in 2018.{{cite news|url=https://www.dancemagazine.com/american-ballet-theatre-promotions-2582402676.html|title=Congrats to ABT's Three New Soloist|magazine=Dance Magazine|last=Wingenroth|first=Lauren|date=June 29, 2019}} The following year, she represented ABT at the Erik Bruhn Prize with colleague Aran Bell. The pair performed a pas de deux from Don Quixote and Let Me Sing Forevermore, which was created for them by Jessica Lang. Hurlin won the female category.{{cite news|url=https://www.pointemagazine.com/2019-erik-bruhn-prizewinners-2632763294.html|title=Congrats to 2019 Erik Bruhn Prize Winners Siphesihle November and Catherine Hurlin|magazine=Pointe Magazine|last=Lansky|first=Chava|date=March 25, 2019}} Since her promotion, she created several roles, including Hail in Ratmansky's The Seasons, Greased Lighting in Tharp's A Gathering of Ghosts{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/17/arts/dance/american-ballet-theater-review.html|title=Review: At Ballet Theater, Premieres More Pale Than Ghostly|work=New York Times|last=Seibert|first=Brian|date=October 17, 2019}} and in Whiteside's New American Romance.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/arts/dance/ABT-apollo-james-whiteside-gemma-bond.html|title=At American Ballet Theater, New Romantics Can't Beat a Greek God|work=New York Times|last=Kourlas|first=Gia|date=October 24, 2019}} She had also appeared as Young Jane Eyre in Marston's Jane Eyre, in Lang's Garden Blue, Tharp's In the Upper Room and Deuce Coupe.

In March 2020, Hurlin originated the role of Callirhoe in Ratmansky's full-length ballet Of Love and Rage in Costa Mesa, California.{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/of-love-and-rage-review-star-crossed-lovers-eye-crossed-audience-11583954098|title='Of Love and Rage' Review: Star-Crossed Lovers, Eye-Crossed Audience|work=Wall Street Journal|last=Greskovic|first=Robert|date=March 11, 2020}} However, ABT's spring season, which included the New York premiere and some of Hurlin's major debuts, was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/arts/dance/american-ballet-theater-coronavirus.html|title=American Ballet Theater Cancels Spring Season at Met Opera House|work=New York Times|last=Libbey|first=Peter|date=April 8, 2020}} During the pandemic, she and Bell, who were quarantining together, performed Let Me Sing Forevermore at Central Park, filmed for ABT's virtual gala in May 2020.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/arts/dance/abt-virtual-gala.html|title=American Ballet Theater Moves Its Spring Gala to YouTube|work=New York Times|last=Barone|first=Joshua|date=May 5, 2020}} In March 2021, Hurlin performed the world premiere of Ratmansky's Bernstein in a Bubble, created while a group of ABT dancers were in a bubble in Upstate New York earlier that year.{{cite news|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/American-Ballet-Theatre-Presents-World-Premiere-by-Alexei-Ratmansky-20210226|title=American Ballet Theatre Presents World Premiere by Alexei Ratmansky|work=BroadwayWorld|date=February 26, 2021}} In the summer, she took part in the company's eight-city tour, performing outdoors and mainly with members of the corps de ballet.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/29/arts/dance/american-ballet-theater-tour.html|title=On the Road With Ballet Theater. Who Needs Red Velvet Seats?|work=New York Times|last=Seibert|first=Brian|date=July 29, 2022}}

In 2022, at the company's first season at the Metropolitan Opera House since the pandemic, Hurlin danced as Kitri in Don Quixote, Odette/Odile in Swan Lake, and Callirhoe in the New York premiere of Of Love and Rage.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/15/arts/dance/american-ballet-theater-don-quixote.html|title=Ballet Theater Returns to the Met With a Gimmicky 'Don Quixote'|work=New York Times|last=Kourlas|first=Gia|date=June 15, 2022}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/21/arts/dance/review-ratmansky-of-love-and-rage.html|title=Review: How Deep Is Your Love? A Ratmansky Ballet Dives In|work=New York Times|last=Kourlas|first=Gia|date=June 21, 2022}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/08/arts/dance/american-ballet-theater-swan-lake-alonzo-king.html|title=At Ballet Theater, Visions of the Natural World and 'Swan' Debuts|work=New York Times|last=Kourlas|first=Gia|date=July 8, 2022}} Towards the end of the season, she was promoted to principal dancer.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/12/arts/dance/ballet-theater-promotions-daniel-camargo-catherine-hurlin.html|title=Ballet Theater Promotes Several Dancers, Including 3 to Principal|work=New York Times|last=Jacobs|first=Julia|date=July 12, 2022}}

Repertoire

Hurlin's repertoire with the American Ballet Theatre includes:{{cite web|url=https://www.abt.org/people/catherine-hurlin/|title=Catherine Hurlin|website=American Ballet Theatre}}

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!Ballet (roles)

!Choreographer

Aftereffect

|Marcelo Gomes

AFTERITE

|Wayne McGregor

La Bayadère (Lead D'Jampe; Third Shade)

|Natalia Makarova after Marius Petipa

The Brahms-Haydn Variations

|Twyla Tharp

Company B