Kristin Sloan

FORMER DANCER, NYC BALLET
DIRECTOR OF NEW MEDIA, NYC BALLET
FOUNDER, THEWINGER.COM

PERSONAL DATA

Birthdate 11/20/80
Hometown Boston, MA
Resides New York, NY
Height 5'6"

BACKGROUND

Kristin has always had an interest in technology, athletics, and the arts.

Her athletic interests started on an ice rink in South Park, PA where she had her first skating lesson.

Skating eventually lead to ballet, which brought her to New York City at the age of 14, leaving home on her own to study at the School of American Ballet.

At age 15, Kristin ventured solo to Europe for 7 weeks, to study at the Royal Danish Ballet, the Centre de Danse International in Cannes, and the Royal Ballet School in London.

At 17, after three years of study at SAB, Kristin was taken on as an apprentice at the New York City Ballet, and was offered a corps de ballet contract 7 months later.

During her career Kristin suffered severe hip injuries, resulting in three hip surgeries and eventually retirement at the end of 2007. Kristin's work on her website, The Winger, and video work for the New York City Ballet during her injury, lead to the creation of a full time position with NYCB as their Director of New Media.

She currently splits her time between working for the company, and working on her personal sites, thewinger.com and a social networking site for the dance community, the-inter-mission.com.

RELATED POSTS

The World of Dance Tries Out New Moves on the Web

7.18.08 | by stantoncompany

Source: NY TIMES by Julie Bloom For proof of dance’s mainstream popularity on the Internet, look no further than YouTube. That site’s most-viewed video, an absurdly silly stand-up comedy routine called “Evolution of Dance” (youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg), still captures hit after hit. But until recently, such attention to movement on the Web has largely eluded the professional dance world. In the past (read more)

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The Bloggernia

11.27.07 | by stantoncompany

Source Last month, Kristin Sloan, a comely member of the New York City Ballet, began appearing in a television ad for the iPhone, one in a series of Real People telling slightly implausible stories against a black backdrop. Ms. Sloan’s tale—that she runs a dancers’ blog called The Winger, and sometimes mobile-blogs backstage on her iPhone during performances—may have generated (read more)

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