BALLET & PERFORMANCE DAYS 2014 MAGAZINE

ABIGAIL SIMON
Born in NYC into a family of performing artists, Abigail Simon began began to dance at age three. Just
13 years later she’s a professional with one of the worlds top companies, American Ballet Theater (ABT).
After years in NYC dancing with ABT, Ms. Simon relocated to The Joffrey Ballet in Chicago in 2006, and
after numerous principal roles and international travels, left in the spring of 2013 to start her most exciting
chapter yet. Abigail can now be found dancing all over the world as a Principal Guest Artist, modeling in
international dance magazines, and as a Professional Athlete Sponsored by Capezio.
Some of her major roles include: The Principal in Balanchine’s Baiser de la Fee, Divertimento #15, Who
Cares, The French Girl in American in Paris, Sir Frederick Ashton’s Monotones I, The Pas de deux from
Bourneville’s Flower Festival, Principal in Raymonda, The Diamond pas de deux in Sleeping Beauty.
With the Joffrey Ballet, Abigail has performed the roles in Balanchine‘s Tarentella, Kettentanz, Mobiles,
Lilac Garden, Green Table, Cinderella, The Merry Widow and Twyla Tharp’s Water Baby Bagatelle.
She has danced new choreography by Wayne McGregor, Christopher Wheeldon, Yuri Possokhv, Edward
Liang, Sean Curran, Stephen Mills, Jessica Lang, Benjamin Millepied, Brian Reeder, Melissa Barak
and Katarzyna Kozielska. For more information please visit: AbigailSimonOnline.com
Abigail Simon in Ronald Hynd‘s
The Merry Widow / Joffrey Ballet
Photo by Herbert Migdoll
YOSVANI RAMOS
Yosvani Ramos was born in Camagüey, Cuba and trained at the National Ballet School, going on to
dance with Jeune Ballet de France and Ballet de l‘Opéra National de Paris after winning the Gold Medal
at the Paris International Ballet Competition in 1998. He joined English National Ballet as a Soloist in
1999 and was promoted to Senior Soloist in 2000, then Principal Dancer in 2003 after his performance
as Franz in Coppélia. He danced with ENB until 2008 when he joined The Australian Ballet as a Principal
Artist, where he remained until April this year.
He has danced the lead roles in all the major classical ballets like Giselle, Swan Lake, Coppélia, Romeo
& Juliet, Don Quixote, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, The Merry Widow, Manon, La Silphíde
as well as in ballets by Balanchine, Ratmansky, Duato and many others and is currently freelancing
and guesting all around the world.
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Pas de deux - Romeo and Juliet
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