He danced with the New York City Ballet as a soloist until 2016 then became a repertory director, and was one of the company interim leaders between late 2017 and early 2019.
When he was 18, in 1997, he moved to New York City to train at the School of American Ballet full-time, having previously attended two summer intensives there.
In 1999, prior to his graduation, he originated a featured role in Christopher Wheeldon's Scènes de ballet.
[6] In her farewell performance, he danced with her in the After the Rain pas de deux, as well as in a new work by Wheeldon and Alexei Ratmansky, titled By 2 With & From.
[4] In December 2017, Peter Martins, then ballet master in chief of NYCB, took a leave of absence and later left after he was accused of sexual abuse.