Kathryn Morgan

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Kathryn Elizabeth Morgan (born August 17, 1988) is an American ballet dancer.

She joined New York City Ballet in 2006 and was promoted to the rank of soloist in 2009.

Morgan left the New York City Ballet in 2012 due to health issues resulting from Hashimoto's thyroiditis.

Morgan taught ballet and performed as a guest artist throughout her recovery.

She joined the Miami City Ballet as a soloist in 2019.

Early life

Kathryn Elizabeth Morgan was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, on August 17, 1988. She was adopted. Morgan discovered she was of one hundred percent European descent with mainly British, Irish, French, German, and Scandinavian ancestry after completing a 23andme genetic test. Her adoptive father, an endodontic dentist serving in the Air Force, and the family and their families then moved to Minot Air Force Base in Minot, North Dakota. When she was two years old, she began studying ballet, tap, and jazz dance. She went from North Dakota to Mobile, Alabama, and then enrolled in the Mobile Ballet, deciding to concentrate exclusively on ballet instruction. Morgan and her family moved to New York City when she was nine years old, inspired her to attend George Balanchine's The Nutcracker, a ballet company that inspired her to pursue dance with the company. When she was ten years old, she was given a scholarship to attend Joffrey Ballet School in New York City for four weeks. Morgan was accepted into the Mobile Ballet company at the age of 11, where she appeared in full length ballets including Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker, the latter of which she appeared as Clara at age thirteen and Arabian and Snow Queen at age fifteen. She attended the School of American Ballet in New York City in 2004 and enrolled as a full-time student in the fall. Morgan's mother rented an apartment in New York City and stayed with her, while her father commuted up to New York from Alabama every other weekend.

Personal life

Morgan is classically trained in piano, as well as ballet.

Morgan married Eric Young in North Carolina on May 27, 2016. They were married at Ashland Place United Methodist Church in Mobile, Alabama, on May 27, 2017. Morgan and Young married in Houston, Texas, where she began teaching ballet at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Morgan revealed on Instagram on September 3, 2018 that she and Young were no longer married. She revealed on YouTube later this month that her divorce had been finalized.

Morgan denied the sexual harassment charges against Peter Martins in December 2017, claiming that she had never been a perpetrator of harassment by Martins and was treated respectfully while at New York City Ballet but had heard rumors that Martins were having sexual relations with dancers in the company.

Morgan began performing in Salt Lake City with her then-boyfriend Christopher Sellars, a former first soloist with Ballet West, after leaving Miami City Ballet in 2020.

Morgan became engaged to Sellars on July 29, 2021, after 2 years of dating. He invited her to Disneyland.

Morgan married Christopher Sellars, her boyfriend of three years, on September 24, 2022.

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Career

Morgan joined the New York City Ballet as an apprentice in June 2006. Juliet was the company's first solo appearance in Peter Martin's Romeo + Juliet in 2007, when she was an apprentice. She became a member of the corps de ballet of the company in February 2007. In October 2009, she was promoted to the rank of soloist. Morgan suffered with serious health problems as a result of an under-functioning thyroid, so she shifted her attention away from the New York City Ballet in 2012 to focus on her recovery. Her illness had caused her to gain weight, suffer from exhaustion, muscle strength deficit, cause hair loss, and suffer from depression. Morgan was later diagnosed with Hashimoto's thyroiditis. She returned to Mobile, Alabama, to get medical attention. Morgan has returned to the stage after 2014 as a guest artist with ballet companies around the United States, Europe, and Asia. She has been featured in Dance Magazine, Pointe, Dance Spirit Magazine, and Teen Vogue. She also teaches dance classes, has developed her own mobile app, has a podcast on iTunes, is a licensed member of the Premier Dance Network, and has a blog. Morgan's YouTube channel, which focuses on body positivity, healthy lifestyle habits, make-up videos, and dance tips, has over 200,000 followers.

Morgan performed with the New York City Ballet for six years, from 2006 to 2012. She was a soloist from 2009 to her departure from the company. Morgan appeared in many principal roles during his time with the New York City Ballet. In George Balanchine's The Nutcracker, she appeared as Marzipan, Dewdrop, and Sugar Plum Fairy. She has appeared in several Balanchine performances, including Ballo della Regina, the Waltz in Coppélia, Divertimento No. 131. Stars and Stripes, Scotch Symphony, La Valse (Balanchine), and Western Symphony. Morgan was dancing with NYCB in three of his ballets; Carousel (A Dance) and Scènes de ballet in 2006; and Mercurial Manoeuvres in 2009. Morgan appeared in Jerome Robbins' 2 and 3 Part Inventions, Dances at a Gathering, The Four Seasons, as Winter, Les Noces, and Maria of the West Side Story Suite. Morgan performed the pas de deux at the Flower Festival in Genzano in August. Juliet Capulet appeared in Sean Lavery's Romeo and Juliet as Juliet Capulet. In 2007, she appeared in Peter Martins' Mirage, Romeo + Juliet as Juliet, and in the pas de trois and pas de quatre of Swan Lake as Jewel and Princess Aurora, Stabat Mater. Morgan appeared in Benjamin Millepied's Why am I not where you are and 28 Variations on a Theme by Paganini, 2010.

Morgan has toured and performed with various ballet companies as a guest artist after leaving New York City Ballet and recovering from her under-functioning thyroid. Morgan in Swan Lake, Sugar Plum Fairy's, and Snow White in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs appeared in Mobile Ballet in Alabama. Who Cares? by George Balanchine. In Divertimento No. 10, the Odeon of Herodes Atticus in Athens, Greece, is on display. In Les Noces (A Dance) and West Side Story Suite in Paris, Maria and Maria are joined by the Orchard Hall in Bogote, Spain, and The Red Shoes, Kitri in Don Quixote and Odile in Swan Lake at the Playhouse Square in Cleveland, Ohio, on Monday, September 15, who danced (A Dance) and Carousel (A Dance) by Carousel (A Dance) and Odile in Don Quixote.

Morgan appeared in the Dark Productions as the lead role of Galina in To Dance the Musical.

Morgan performed a two-night show sponsored by Bloch's Evening With Kathryn Morgan at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., in March 2016.

Morgan contacted Lourdes Lopez, the artistic director of Miami City Ballet, in February 2019 about the possibility of joining the company. Morgan will be joining the company as a soloist on April 17 in a press release. I'm Old Fashioned, I'm Old Fashioned, I'm Old Fashioned, began preparing for the title role in Balanchine and Jerome Robbins' The Firebird, the role of Mercedes in Don Quixote, and the appearance of Striptease Girl in The Nutcracker's Slaughter in Slaughter's Slaughter, the role of Don Quixote, Dewdrop, Spanish, Before the first appearance, she was voted out of the cast of Stravinsky Violin Concerto. Morgan made her debut at the Miami City Ballet in October 2019 performing Slaughter on Tenth Avenue in October.

Morgan was told, upon signing her letter with the company, that she would perform the Bitter Earth Pas de Deux from Five Movements, Three Repeats, and Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux, but she was not invited to rehearsals. Morgan took a calf muscle and sat out of the performances during The Nutcracker rehearsals. Morgan appeared in I'm Old Fashioned, the season's second program. Morgan was suspended from the casting list for The Firebird in the middle of the season due to her weight. Morgan was told by the artistic staff that she was a "embarrassment" and "would not represent the company well" dancing in The Firebird. Morgan was then barred from the Nine Sinatra Songs casting two days before the performance. She had been supposed to perform in Don Quixote but the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States had interrupted her season.

Morgan left Miami City Ballet for mental and physical fitness reasons at the end of the 2019-2020 season. On October 8, 2020, she posted a video on YouTube describing why she had left the company and why she had stayed on Facebook.

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