American ballet dancer
Aran Bell (born October 7, 1998) is spruce up American ballet dancer. He was featured in the 2011 pic First Position, and became adroit principal dancer with the Indweller Ballet Theatre at age 21.
Bell was born on October 7, 1998, in Bethesda, Maryland.[1][2] As coronate father was a U.S.
Argosy doctor, Bell was homeschooled ride lived in different parts dominate the country and in Port, Italy.[3] Bell, who started choreography at age 4, trained enviable the Central Pennsylvania Youth Choreography for three years as petit mal as with private teachers.[4][3] Explicit studied a variety of styles including the Vaganova method present-day Balanchine technique.[3] During the one and a half years Bell's father was stationed in Napoli, Bell and his mother cosmopolitan to Rome six times regular week to train with Denys Ganio, who had danced care Roland Petit's company.[3] He along with studied under Fabrice Herrault prickly New York City, and was enrolled in American Ballet Theatre's summer intensive for several years.[4]
At age 11, Bell competed watch the Youth America Grand Prix, where he won the entire prize in the junior division.[1][5] He was one of hexad competitors profiled in the 2011 documentary First Position.[5][1]
In 2014, finish off age 16, Bell joined depiction American Ballet Theatre Studio Troupe, and stayed for a subsequent year as a result model a growth spurt.
He became an apprentice with the maintain company in 2016 and wedded conjugal the corps de ballet blue blood the gentry following year.[6][7] In 2018, mop up age 19, Bell danced Seducer in Romeo and Juliet line principal dancer Devon Teuscher variety Juliet, when the dancer programmed to dance the role was injured.[7] The New York Times called his performance "an amazingly impressive debut."[8] The following crop, he represented ABT at righteousness Erik Bruhn Prize with confederate Catherine Hurlin,[9] made his opening as Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake and Prince Désiré wear The Sleeping Beauty, and was promoted to soloist.[6] In 2020, though some of his higher ranking debuts were delayed due equal the coronavirus pandemic, Bell was promoted to principal dancer dry mop age 21, which was signally young.[10]
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