• Born in BAkersfield, California
• At 7: Dance training privately with Bolshoi Ballet Principal Dancer Alla Khaniashvili in Hollywood
• At 11: Conjunctive Point in Culver City, California with former NYCB ballet dancers
• Trained at the Westside School of Ballet in Santa Monica with former NYCB principal Yvonne Mounsey
• Winter 2000-2001: At 12 Entered the SAB
• Summer 2002-2003: Returned to the SAB, Began as a full-time Studetn 
• September 2004: Apprentice with the NYCB
• February 2005: Joined the NYCB as Member of the CDB
• December 2006: Promoted to Soloist
• October 2009: Promoted to Principal

Awards and Prices

• 2004: recipient of the Princess Grace Foundation - USA dance Fellowship
• 2004: Mae L Wien Award recipient
• 2006-2007: Janice Levin Honoree

Films credits: a Time for Dancing (2000), Gepetto (2000), Donnie Darno (2001)