{"id":19470,"date":"2024-05-30T15:04:39","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T15:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/?p=19470"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:16:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:16:19","slug":"sydney-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2024\/05\/30\/sydney-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Sydney Williams<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>Boston Ballet: Artist (2022-present)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyloaded alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/bostonballet.widen.net\/content\/2t6wcxbptj\/jpeg\/BB_images_cast_photo_T.5_T.7_SydneyWilliams.jpg?crop=false&amp;position=c&amp;q=80&amp;u=e1ahl7&amp;w=340&amp;h=340\" alt=\"ARTIST\" width=\"213\" height=\"213\" data-src=\"https:\/\/bostonballet.widen.net\/content\/2t6wcxbptj\/jpeg\/BB_images_cast_photo_T.5_T.7_SydneyWilliams.jpg?crop=false&amp;position=c&amp;q=80&amp;u=e1ahl7&amp;w=340&amp;h=340\" data-uw-rm-alt-original=\"\" data-uw-rm-alt=\"CT\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sydney Williams began her dance training at age 4 in Bakersfield, California, studying jazz, tap and ballet. She continued her ballet training in Indianapolis, Indiana at the Indianapolis School of Ballet under the direction of Victoria Lyras. From 2017 through 2019, Williams attended Colburn Dance Academy in Los Angeles, CA on full scholarship. She attended Boston Ballet School (BBS) 2019 Summer Dance Program on scholarship, and subsequently received a scholarship to Boston Ballet School\u2019s Professional Division at Walnut Hill. In 2021, Williams was invited to join BBS\u2019s Post Graduate program.<\/p>\n<p>Williams\u2019 repertoire includes George Balanchine\u2019s Tarantella, Benjamin Millepied\u2019s Stepping Out, Mikko Nissinen\u2019s The Nutcracker, and Jerome Robbins\u2019 2 &amp; 3 Part Inventions.<\/p>\n<p>Williams joined Boston Ballet II in 2022 and was promoted to artist of Boston Ballet in 2023.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonballet.org\/company\/sydney-williams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sydney Williams, Boston Ballet<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8EifGMG7MWk?si=Cvx2igphkSRzFX1Z\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>See also:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/boston\/news\/black-history-month-boston-ballet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boston Ballet hopes diverse company inspires future generation of dancers, CBS News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Video links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"fitVids-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=69-RnCN1wiA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AMPLIFYING VOICES | Featuring Artist Sydney Williams<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=189680319874639\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meet Post Graduate student, Sydney Williams!<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8EifGMG7MWk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boston Ballet School Professional Division at Walnut Hill: Sydney Williams &#8217;21<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>Social media:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Instagram\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dancesydy\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"\">@dancesydy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney Williams Boston Ballet: Artist (2022-present) Sydney Williams began her dance training at age 4 in Bakersfield, California, studying jazz, tap and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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-19470","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\/19470","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19470"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19505,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19470\/revisions\/19505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}