Beauty in the arts comes from human emotion honestly expressed, a quality often found in the classics, says ballerina and Tony-nominated actress and dancer Ashley Tuttle. She asks us to reconsider the importance of traditional ballet.
Tuttle joined American Ballet Theatre at the invitation of Mikhail Baryshnikov when she was only 16 and then spent 17 years with the company, reaching the rank of principal dancer and appearing in roles such as Juliet in Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s “Romeo and Juliet,” Aurora in “The Sleeping Beauty,” Odette/Odile in Kevin McKenzie’s “Swan Lake,” and the title role in “Giselle,” among many others.
