Claire Kretzschmar

Claire Kretzschmar is a choreographer, dancer, teacher, podcast host, former soloist with New York City Ballet (NYCB 2010-2022), and current Artistic Director of Ballet Hartford. She trained at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and the School of American Ballet prior to joining NYCB as an apprentice in 2010. At NYCB, she performed several featured roles in works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Alexei Ratmansky, Justin Peck, and Kyle Abraham, and she rose to become a soloist dancer in 2018.