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PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET
Corps de Ballet
Eric Hipolito Jr.
Eric Hipolito Jr. is from Seattle, Washington. He trained on scholarship at Pacific Northwest Ballet School, beginning as a DanceChance student in 1998. He attended summer courses at San Francisco Ballet School, the School of American Ballet, Houston Ballet School, and Pacific Northwest Ballet School, and was a 2008 recipient of the Flemming Halby Exchange with the Royal Danish Ballet School. He was also the first recipient of the Jerome Robbins Scholarship, given by the Jerome Robbins Foundation, in 2007 and a 2008 recipient of a Level II award for ballet from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. Mr. Hipolito joined Pacific Northwest Ballet as a corps de ballet dancer in 2008, becoming the first Pacific Northwest Ballet School DanceChance student to join the Company.
While a student in Pacific Northwest Ballet School, Mr. Hipolito performed corps de ballet roles with the Company in George Balanchine's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Prodigal Son, La Sonnambula, and Theme and Variations; Ronald Hynd's The Sleeping Beauty; Jean-Christophe Maillot's Roméo et Juliette; Jerome Robbins' The Concert; and Kent Stowell's Nutcracker and Swan Lake. He originated roles in Sonia Dawkins' Cu Ture and Kiyon Gaines' Infinite Intricacies for the 2007 Choreographers' Showcase, and he originated the role of the White Bird in Bruce Wells' Hansel and Gretel. He also performed leading roles in Balanchine's Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux and Cortège Hongrois in the 2007 and 2008 School Performances, respectively.
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