2024-2025 season

Guest artists

Tyler Angle

In 2019, William Forsythe staged and reworked his "Herman Schmerman" pas de deux for Tiler Peck and Mr. Angle during NYCB's fall season. Mr. Angle has also worked with choreographer Mark Morris, presenting Mr. Morris's "Silhouettes" at the Nantucket Atheneum Dance Festival in 2022, danced by Mr. Angle and his brother Jared.

From 2012-2022, Mr. Angle was the artistic director of the Nantucket Atheneum Dance Festival. During that time he commissioned 14 new pieces of choreography and one original score, presenting the work of Melissa Barak, Christian Frederickson, Austin Goodwin, Jessica Lang, Abdul Latif, Justin Peck, Fang Yi Sheu, Pam Tanowitz and Eric Trope amongst others. To supplement the festival's much lauded performances, Mr. Angle also regularly gave lecture demonstrations, held panel discussions with singers and musicians, taught youth master classes and designed many other outreach programs, all offered free to the public. He brought authors, historians and filmmakers to the island for book talks, panel discussions, and screenings. Most recently he invited Lynn Garafola to speak about her new book, "La Nijinska: Choreographer of the Modern", and moderated a discussion with New York Public Library for the Performing Arts interim director and dance curator, Linda Murray and Atheneum head librarian Ann Scott on dance as a form of literacy. During his tenure, the festival raised millions of dollars for the Nantucket Atheneum library, which despite offering public library services, is a 501(c)3. 

In 2010, Mr. Angle and his brother Jared were invited by Heriberto Cabezas and Alicia Alonso to bring a group of NYCB dancers to Cuba for the the Festival Internacional de Ballet de La Habana to critical acclaim. Mr. Angle thoroughly enjoys in depth discussions about the intersection of music and dance and has conceived lectures for New York City Center's "Studio Five" talks including: Approaches to Mastering Choreography; MUSIC: Information and Impulse; Bernstein at 100. He has also been a guest moderator for the "Works and Process" series at the Guggenheim Museum. Mr. Angle is on the faculty at the Rye Ballet Conservatory, and regularly and gives ballet and partnering masterclasses around the country. He has also staged work for SAB's Workshop performances, working closely with Kay Mazzo and Suki Schorer. Mr. Angle holds a Diploma in Visual and Performing Arts Administration from NYU's School of Professional Studies.

Tyler Angle was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania and began his dance training at the age of nine. In 2001, Mr. Angle entered the School of American Ballet (SAB), where after the school's annual June "Workshop" performance, he was given the Mae L. Wien Award for Outstanding Promise. The next year he was awarded the inaugural Jerome Robbins Scholarship at SAB, was a recipient of the Martin Segal Award recognizing young artists of exceptional accomplishment in Lincoln Center, and in July received an apprenticeship with the New York City Ballet (NYCB). He joined the Corps de Ballet nine months later on a company tour to the Kennedy Center, and in the fall of 2009, was promoted to Principal dancer, at the age of 23. 

Mr. Angle has danced more than 90 pieces from NYCB's catalogue of work, and his repertoire includes much of the central Balanchine and Robbins canon. He was fortunate to have learned many of these masterpieces from their originators, and has enjoyed ongoing relationships with Suzanne Farrell, Jillana, Adam Luders, Conrad Ludlow, Peter Martins, Patricia McBride, and Edward Villella. He has also originated more than 25 featured roles with numerous choreographers including Mauro Bigonzetti, Melissa Barak, Benjamin Millepied, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, Justin Peck, Alexei Ratmansky and Christopher Wheeldon.

Born in Seoul, South Korea, Hee Seo began her ballet training in her hometown at the Sun-hwa Arts Middle School. She was awarded a three-year full scholarship to continue her training at the Universal Ballet Academy in Washington, D. C. In 2003, Seo won a scholarship to train at the John Cranko Ballet Academy in Stuttgart. She is the recipient of the 2003 Prix de Lausanne Award and the 2003 Grand Prix at the Youth American Grand Prix in New York.

Seo joined ABT Studio Company in 2004, became an apprentice with the main Company in May 2005, and joined the corps de ballet in March 2006. She was promoted to Soloist in August 2010 and to Principal Dancer in July 2012. Her repertoire with the Company includes Terpsichore and Polyhymnia in Apollo, Nikiya, Gamzatti, a Lead D’Jampe, and a Shade in La Bayadère, Cinderella in Frederick Ashton’s Cinderella, Twig in James Kudelka’s Cinderella, Concerto pas de deux, Prayer in Coppélia, Medora in Le Corsaire, Depuis le Jour, Kitri, Mercedes, the Dryad Queen, and a flower girl in Don Quixote, The Dying Swan, Glove Seller in Gaîté Parisienne, Giselle and Zulma in Giselle, Queen of Shemakahn in the Golden Cockerel, Pierrette in Alexei Ratmansky’s Harlequinade, Blanche Ingram in Jane Eyre, Caroline in Jardin aux Lilas, Olympia in Lady of the Camellias, Rosaura in Like Water for Chocolate, the title role in Manon, Natalia Petrovna in A Month in the Country, Clara, the Princess and one of the Nutcracker’s Sisters in Ratmansky’s The Nutcracker,

Callirhoe in Of Love and Rage, Tatiana in Onegin, Natalia in On the Dnipro, Other Dances, The Siren in Prodigal Son, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, The Spirit of the Corn in The Seasons, Princess Aurora, the Lilac Fairy, the Fairy of Sincerity, and Princess Florine in The Sleeping Beauty, Princess Aurora in Ratmansky’s The Sleeping Beauty, Odette-Odile, the pas de trois, the Polish Princess, and a big swan in Swan Lake, the Sylph in La Sylphide, Prelude in Les Sylphides, Sylvia and Ceres in Sylvia, Thaïs Pas de Deux, Princess Tea Flower in Whipped Cream, leading roles in The Brahms-Haydn Variations, Chamber Symphony, Dark Elegies, The Leaves Are Fading, Monotones II, Mozartiana, Piano Concerto No. 1, Raymonda Divertissements, Seven Sonatas, Serenade after Plato’s Symposium, Thirteen Diversions, A Time There Was, and Valse Fantaisie, and featured roles in Ballo della Regina, Birthday Offering, Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes, Duets, From Here On Out, Petite Mort, Overgrown Path, and Sinfonietta. She created Frost in The Seasons and leading roles in AFTERITE, Garden Blue, I Feel The Earth Move, and With a Chance of Rain.

Seo has appeared as a guest artist with the Mariinsky Ballet dancing the title role in Giselle and Princess Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty.

Weaver Rhodes was born and raised in Texas, where he received his training from the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. He then went on to receive his BFA in Dance from SUNY Purchase in 2012. He has worked for various companies including Dance Heginbotham, The Mark Morris Dance Group, Mettin Movement Collective, Kevin Wynn Collection, The Metropolitan Classical Ballet in Arlington, TX, Northwest Dance Project, and was featured in Isaac Mizrahi’s The Magic Flute. Weaver has had the pleasure to work with artists such as Kathryn Alter, Robert Battle, Patrick Corbin, Greg Dolbashian, Larry Keigwin, Jessica Lang, Dwight Rhoden, Kate Skarpetowska, and Pam Tanowitz. Weaver has been a company member with Bruce Wood Dance since 2019.