{"id":1361,"date":"2017-04-29T19:02:05","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T19:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobballet.org\/?p=1361"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:16:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:16:30","slug":"olivia-boisson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2017\/04\/29\/olivia-boisson\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Boisson"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Olivia Boisson <\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>New York City Ballet: Corps de Ballet (2012-present)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1362\" src=\"http:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BoissonOlivia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BoissonOlivia.jpg 242w, https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BoissonOlivia-230x271.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Olivia Boisson is a member of New York City Ballet\u2019s corps de ballet. She was born in Queens, New York, and began her dance training at the age of six at The Ballet Arts School of Forest Hills. She later studied at the Dance Theatre of Harlem in 2000 before enrolling as a full time student at the School of American Ballet, the official school of New York City Ballet, during the fall of 2004.<\/p>\n<p>In August 2012, Ms. Boisson became an apprentice with NYCB, and the following December, she joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycballet.com\/discover\/meet-our-dancers\/corps-de-ballet\/olivia-boisson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Olivia Boisson, New York City Ballet<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WsPR0msEi3E\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>See also:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.womenshealthmag.com\/fitness\/a17888445\/olivia-boisson-ballerina\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;I&#8217;m One Of The Few Brown Pro Ballerinas\u2014Here&#8217;s What That&#8217;s Like&#8217;, Women&#8217;s Health<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.browngirlsdoballet.com\/blog2\/2015\/07\/29\/brown-ballerina-spotlight-q-a-olivia-boisson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brown Ballerina Spotlight: Q &amp; A Olivia Boisson<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/balancing-pointe.com\/olivia-boisson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Olivia Boisson-New York City Ballet, Balancing Pointe<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pointemagazine.com\/news\/nycb-dancers-pumas-new-collection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NYCB Dancers Show Off PUMA&#8217;s Spring\/Summer Collection, Pointe Magazine<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/slideshow\/2015\/11\/01\/arts\/dance\/the-changing-faces-of-ballet\/s\/01DIVERSITY-slide-I471.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Changing Faces of Ballet, The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/atlantablackstar.com\/2015\/07\/07\/10-black-ballerinas-other-than-misty-copeland-who-are-also-changing-the-face-of-ballet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">10 Black Ballerinas Other Than Mist Copeland Who Are Also Changing the Face of Ballet, Atlanta Black Star<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Video links:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=llzDf8Maj0c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NYC Ballet&#8217;s Olivia Boisson on George Balanchine&#8217;s SCHERZO \u00c0 LA RUSSE: Anatomy of a Dance<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1561876147282950\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Olivia Boisson &#8211; Corps de ballet member with NYC Ballet<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WsPR0msEi3E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NYC Ballet Screen Test: Olivia Boisson<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Social media:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Instagram <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/toughinatutu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@toughinatutu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olivia Boisson New York City Ballet: Corps de Ballet (2012-present) Olivia Boisson is a member of New York City Ballet\u2019s corps de [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dancers"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1361"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19475,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions\/19475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}