Kathryn Elizabeth Morgan (born August 17, 1988)[citation needed] is an American ballet dancer.
Morgan left New York City Ballet in 2012 due to health complications related to her suffering from Hashimoto's thyroiditis.
[4] After completing a 23andMe genetic test, Morgan discovered she was of one hundred percent European descent with mostly British, Irish, French, German and Scandinavian ancestry.
When she was ten years old, she was awarded a scholarship to train at the Joffrey Ballet School in New York City for four weeks.
[5] In 2004, at the age of fifteen, she attended the summer program at the School of American Ballet in New York City and in the fall, she enrolled as a full-time student.
In 2010, Morgan faced serious health issues due to an underfunctioning thyroid and left New York City Ballet in 2012 to focus on her recovery.
[10] Since 2014, Morgan has returned to the stage performing as a guest artist with ballet companies across the United States, Europe and Asia.
Morgan's YouTube channel, which focuses on body positivity, healthy lifestyle habits, makeup tutorials and dance tips, has over 300,000 subscribers.
Also in 2009, Morgan performed in Jerome Robbins' 2 and 3 Part Inventions, Dances at a Gathering, The Four Seasons as Winter, Les Noces and West Side Story Suite as Maria.
15 and Carousel (A Dance) at the Opéra Bastille in Paris, in Les Noces at Santander & Majorca in Spain, in Carousel (A Dance) and West Side Story Suite as Maria at the Orchard Hall at Bunkamura in Tokyo, and in The Red Shoes, Kitri in Don Quixote and Odile in Swan Lake at the Playhouse Square in Cleveland, Ohio.
[9] On 17 April 2019, Miami City Ballet announced in a press release that Morgan would be joining the company as a soloist.
[22] In October 2019, Morgan made her debut at Miami City Ballet, performing Slaughter on Tenth Avenue.
[22] At the end of the 2019–2020 season, Morgan left Miami City Ballet for mental and physical health reasons.
[30] After their wedding, Morgan and Young moved to Houston, Texas, and she began teaching ballet at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts.