- Sascha Radetsky
Sascha Radetsky (born
March 29 ,1977 ) is a soloist with theAmerican Ballet Theatre and anactor .He was born in Santa Cruz,
California , and began studyingballet in theSan Francisco Bay Area . He was invited to study at theBolshoi Academy inMoscow when he was 15 and after spending a year there, he went to TheKirov Academy of Ballet . He later studied on a scholarship in the summer programs of theSchool of American Ballet , the American Ballet Theatre's School of Classical Ballet withMikhail Baryshnikov and the San Francisco Ballet School. Radetsky joined theAmerican Ballet Theatre as an apprentice in 1995, moving up tocorps de ballet the following year and named a soloist in 2003, where he remains today.He starred in the 2000 movie "
Center Stage " and appeared in theMandy Moore music video "I Wanna Be with You " from the movie's soundtrack. He has also had lead roles in the PBStelevision movie , "Home at Last", and theNBC television series "Midnight Caller ".In 2006, Radetsky married fellow ABT soloist Stella Abrera. The two wed in his hometown of Santa Cruz, CA.
In 2008, Sascha Radetsky left ABT to join Dutch National Ballet as a first soloist (the company's highest rank)
External links
* [http://www.abt.org/dancers/detail.asp?Dancer_ID=79 Official American Ballet Theatre bio]
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* [http://members.tripod.com/~tor0204/sascharadetsky.html Sascha Radetsky fan site]
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