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Devon Carney
Devon Carney was born in New Orleans, Louisiana where he began his dance training with Harvey Hysell. He later joined the New Orleans Ballet, where he danced his first leading roles.
In 1978, Mr. Carney was invited to join Boston Ballet. While a corps de ballet member, Mr. Carney was chosen by Choo San Goh to dance the title role of Romeo in Goh's first full length ballet, Romeo and Juliet. Mr. Carney was promoted to principal in 1986.
During his 21 year professional dance career, Mr. Carney was able to perform many leading roles in well known classical ballets such as Giselle, Swan Lake, Don Quixote, The Sleeping Beauty and Raymonda Act III.
Mr. Carney had the opportunity to also perform leading roles in 20th century classical works such as John Cranko's Onegin, Ben Stevenson's Cinderella, Bruce Wells' A Midsummer Night's Dream, Harald Lander's Etudes, and Anthony Tudor's Lilac Garden.
He, also, was able to dance roles choreographed by cutting edge choreographers. These roles include Maurice Bejart's Le Sacre du Printemps, Paul Taylor's Company B, Merce Cunningham's Breakers, Sir Frederick Ashton's Monotones 1, Elisa Monte's VII for VIII, Mark Morris' Mort Subite, Susan Marshall's Overture, and Daniel Pelzig’s Nine Lives: Songs of Lyle Lovett.
His George Balanchine repertoire includes principal roles in Square Dance, Serenade, Agon, Who Cares?, Allegro Brillante, Mozartiana, Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2, Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, Rubies, La Sonnambula, The Four Temperaments, and Theme and Variations.
Mr. Carney has toured extensively throughout Europe, United States and Mexico and Asia with such greats as Rudolph Nureyev, Fernando Bujones and Cynthia Gregory. In 1994, Mr. Carney was the partner of the Senior Division Bronze Medalist at the Jackson International Ballet Competition.
Mr. Carney served as Ballet Master for Boston Ballet from 1998 to 2002. During this time he worked closely with choreographers Ben Stevenson, Christopher Wheeldon, Micheal Corder, Micheal Pink and Bruce Wells. Furthermore, he has worked very closely with Anna-Marie Holmes in the staging of several of her world renowned productions of the great classics of ballet including Le Corsaire, Sleeping Beauty, Don Quixote, La Bayadere and Giselle.
Mr. Carney was appointed Artistic Director of Boston Ballet Summer Dance Program in 1994 and served in this capacity for 8 years. Teaching credits include Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre, Arizona Ballet Summer Program, Boston Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet, Hartford Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, and various regional ballet companies across the United States and Europe. He has also served as a judge on the jury of the 2002 Youth America Grand Prix Ballet Competition finals in New York City. In addition, his choreographic endeavors include the ballets Cascades, Daystar, Opus II and Interlude for Boston Ballet II. He has also, through the years, choreographed Symphony #1, Awakenings and Wonderful Land, as well as staged several classical ballet excerpts.
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