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”

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

As a student, Kristin performed with the Burklyn Ballet Theater at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the Boston Ballet, Ballet Theatre of Boston, Berkshire Ballet, Walnut Hill and Stamford City Ballet's versions of The Nutcracker.

Kristin also performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music as a student in a joint performance of the School of American Ballet and the Vaganova School of Russia.

During her time as a professional with NYCB, Kristin performed numerous featured and solo roles. Roles include: George Balanchine's Divertimento No. 15, Stars and Stripes, The Four Temperaments, and Walpurgishnacht Ballet, Peter Martins' The Sleeping Beauty (Ruby), Songs of the Auvergne, and Swan Lake (Pas de Trois and Princesses), Jerome Robbins' Mother Goose (Beauty), and in roles created for her in new works by Chirstopher D'Amboise (Triptych), Christopher Wheeldon (Mercurial Manoeuvres, An American in Paris, Variations Serieuses), Helgi Tomasson (Prism), Elliot Feld (Organon) and others.

She has performed at Lincoln Center's New York State Theater for numerous seasons, as well as NYCB's summer home at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center amphitheater in upstate New York.

Kristin also went on tour with the company to Tokyo and Osaka, Japan, Edinburgh, Scotland and to the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.

Kristin has also appeared with the Nilas Martins Dance Company, performing at NYC's Central Park Summerstage and at the Bushnell Theater in Hartford.

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, thewinger.com 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.

Kristin 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.

She also speaks and writes on the future of dance and the use of technology and is often cited in articles on the subject.

Kristin lives in NYC’s East Village with her boyfriend, and commutes to Lincoln Center - weather permitting - on her motorcycle.

RELATED POSTS

NY Times: Alternative Pursuits

10.9.08 | by stantoncompany

Check out the sports section of today’s NY Times to find several Stanton & Company athletes featured in photographer Bess Greenberg’s photo essay about athletes and their outside interests. Bess, a former basketball player, shot beautiful portraits of the athletes in a way that dimensionalized their interests beyond their sports. Athletes include snowboarder Gretchen Bleiler, climber Steph Davis, BMX racer (read more)

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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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