Brooklyn Mack

Career In 2004, Mack became an apprentice with Joffrey Ballet in Chicago, and joined the American Ballet Theatre Studio Company the following year. In 2006, he started dancing with Orlando Ballet as a principal. In 2009, after Bruce Marks, then- director of the company left, Mack accepted an invitation from artistic director Septime Webre to join The Washington Ballet. He also participated in the company's community outreach program. He was named Dance Magazine's "25 to Watch" 2012. He also competed in several international competition, and in 2012, he won the senior gold medal Varna International Ballet Competition, the first African American to do so. Also in 2015, he danced with the English National Ballet as a guest artist, and toured with the company to Palais Garnier, Paris. He had also danced in galas along with dancers from American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. In June 2019, he appeared in American Ballet Theatre's Le Corsaire as Conrad and Ali, after artistic director Kevin McKenzie's assistant contacted him via Instagram. He performed his first show without a dress rehearsal as he filled in for an injured dancer.

Mr. Mack became the Interim Artistic Director of Columbia Classical Ballet November 11, 2021.

Personal life Mack has a son.

Selected repertoire Mack's repertoire includes: George Wilson in The Great Gatsby (originated) Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake Crassus in Spartacus Basilio and Espada in Don Quixote Conrad and Ali in Le Corsaire Albrecht in Giselle Romeo in Romeo and Juliet Benjamin in Cinderella

Awards and honors 2006: USA International Ballet Competition - silver medal 2007: Princess Grace Award 2009: Helsinki International Ballet Competition - silver prize 2012: Dance Magazine's "25 to Watch" 2012: Istanbul Ballet Competition - Grand Prix 2012: Varna International Ballet Competition - gold medal Source: