Biography

Pennsylvania-born Ethan Stiefel began his dance training at the age of 8 in Madison, Wisconsin. He studied for two years at the Milwaukee Ballet School with both Ted Kivitt and Paul Sutherland. He also studied with Marcia Dale Weary at the Pennsylvania Youth Ballet before moving to New York to attend American Ballet Theatre's School of Classical Ballet and the School of American Ballet on scholarship. At 16 he joined the corps de ballet of the New York City Ballet. In 1992, Mr. Stiefel took a leave of absence to perform with the Zurich Ballet. He returned to the New York City Ballet one year later as a Soloist, and was promoted to Principal Dancer in 1995.

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Ethan Stiefel was born in 1973 in Tyrone, Pennsylvania, USA. His parents names are Alan and Mimi and he has an older sister named Erin. During his childhood, his family moved around a lot. He lived briefly in Tyrone where his father was a minister, and then in Dallas where his father worked as a state trooper. Their family moved to Wisconsin when his father became a prison guard in the mid-70s. In 1981, Stiefel began taking ballet lessons at a dance studio in Madison, Wisconsin. He then studied at Milwaukee Ballet School and Pennsylvania Youth Ballet before moving to New York City to attend the American Ballet Theater's School of Classical Ballet and The School of American Ballet on a scholarship. In 1989, he joined the New York City Ballet. In 1992, he took a leave of absence to perform with the Zurich Ballet in Switzerland. He returned to the New York City Ballet in 1993 and became a principal dancer in 1995. In 1997, Stiefel joined the American Ballet Theater as a principal dancer. He was the University of North Carolina School of the Art's Dean of the ballet program. Today, Stiefel is the Artistic Director of the Royal New Zealand Ballet and is married to Gillian Murphy, who is a principal dancer with American Ballet Theater.

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