Naazir Muhammad was born in Brooklyn, New York. He attended the Brooklyn Ballet School from 2003-2010 and trained at the American Ballet Theatre Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School from 2010-2016. Muhammad was invited to join Houston Ballet Academy II in 2016 and was promoted into the Company as an Apprentice in 2017. He was promoted to the Corps de Ballet in 2018, to Demi Soloist in 2021 and became a Soloist in 2022.<\/p>\n
Muhammad has featured in a variety of classic and contemporary ballet roles including Stanton Welch\u2019s\u00a0The Nutcracker,\u00a0<\/em>Giselle, Swan Lake, Marie, Sylvia, La Bayad\u00e8re, Romeo and Juliet, Clear, Play, Divergence, Sons de L\u2019\u00e2me, Red Earth<\/em>;\u00a0Asaf Messerer\u2019s\u00a0Spring Waters<\/em>\u00a0Pas de Deux;\u00a0Aszure Barton’s\u00a0Angular Momentum<\/em>; Justin Peck’s\u00a0Under the Folding Sky<\/em>; Cathy Marston’s\u00a0Summer and Smoke<\/em>; Arthur Pita’s\u00a0Good Vibrations<\/em>; Mark Morris’\u00a0The Letter V<\/em>; Ben Stevenson\u2019s\u00a0The Sleeping Beauty,\u00a0<\/em>Copp\u00e9lia\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Don Quixote<\/em>; George Balanchine\u2019s\u00a0Jewels, Symphony in C and Concerto Barocco<\/em>;\u00a0<\/em>Trey McIntyre\u2019s\u00a0Peter Pan,<\/em>\u00a0and more.<\/p>\n He has danced in tours of Stanton Welch\u2019s\u00a0Swan Lake<\/em>\u00a0in Dubai, UAE, Minneapolis, MN (2018) and Tokyo, Japan\u00a0(2022),\u00a0and Stanton Welch\u2019s world premiere of\u00a0Just<\/em>\u00a0at Jacob\u2019s Pillow in Becket, MA (2018).<\/p>\n Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n Naazir Muhammad, Houston Ballet<\/a><\/p>\n See also:<\/strong><\/p>\n Introducing Naazir Muhammad, Houston Ballet\u2019s Rising Star, Dance Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n