At the age of 18, he received a gold medal from the 1994 USA International Ballet Competition in Jackson, Mississippi,[1][2] and a gold medal at the 1994 Rudolf Nureyev International Ballet Competition in Budapest, Hungary.
[3] After spending time performing as a guest artist in the United States and abroad, Ball joined Boston Ballet as member of the corps de ballet in 1995.
He left Boston in 2003 to join Houston Ballet as a principal dancer.
[3] His repertoire includes Prince in The Sleeping Beauty, the slave in Le Corsaire, Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream, the prince in Cinderella, Albrecht in Giselle, Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Basilio in Don Quixote, Siegfried in Swan Lake, Colas in La Fille mal gardée, Vershinin in Winter Dreams, and Ivan in The Firebird.
[3] In 1999, he was invited to perform at the Benois de la Danse in Berlin, Germany.