{"id":7522,"date":"2020-11-27T15:55:03","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T15:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/?p=7522"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:16:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:16:26","slug":"tyson-ali-clark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2020\/11\/27\/tyson-ali-clark\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyson Ali Clark"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Tyson Ali Clark<\/b><\/h2>\n<h2><b>Boston Ballet II: (2017-2019)<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Boston Ballet: Second Soloist (2019-present)<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>Tyson Ali Clark began <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyloaded alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.widencdn.net\/img\/bostonballet\/hi9mkon1tk\/340x340px\/Clark_Tyson.jpeg?keep=n&amp;u=jrwplt&amp;q=70\" alt=\"SECOND SOLOIST\" width=\"224\" height=\"224\" data-src=\"https:\/\/embed.widencdn.net\/img\/bostonballet\/hi9mkon1tk\/340x340px\/Clark_Tyson.jpeg?keep=n&amp;u=jrwplt&amp;q=70\" data-uw-rm-alt-original=\"\" data-uw-rm-alt=\"CT\" \/>his dance training at age 3 at Mary Flynn Murphy Dance Studio in Somerville, Massachusetts. He also trained at the Gold School with Project Moves Dance Company in Brockton, Massachusetts. Clark studied with Boston Ballet School from 2008 to 2011 and returned in 2015 on full merit scholarship as a Boston Ballet School Trainee under the direction of Margaret Tracey.<\/p>\n<p>His repertoire includes excerpts of George Balanchine\u2019s<em>\u00a0Donizetti Variations\u00a0<\/em>and Jean Coralli\u2019s\u00a0<em>Giselle,\u00a0<\/em>Ivan Li\u0161ka\u2019s\u00a0<em>Le Corsaire<\/em>, Mikko Nissinen\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Nutcracker<\/em>, John Neumeier\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler<\/em>, and Marius Petipa\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Sleeping Beauty.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Clark attended summer programs on full merit scholarship at the School of American Ballet (2014, 2015), Houston Ballet Academy (2016), and Boston Ballet (2017). In 2016, he received the Princess Grace Foundation Dance Scholarship Award and the Chris Hellman Dance Award. In 2017, he represented Boston Ballet School at the Assembl\u00e9e Internationale in Toronto, Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Clark joined Boston Ballet II in 2017. He joined Boston Ballet as an artist in 2019 and was promoted to second soloist in 2023.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonballet.org\/Home\/Global\/Profiles\/Artists\/Artists-of-the-Company\/Tyson-Ali-Clark.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tyson Ali Clark, Boston Ballet<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qsrTUp4VH7A\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>See also:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2022\/02\/11\/metro\/black-history-i-carry-with-me-tyson-ali-clark\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Black history I carry with me: Tyson Ali Clark, Boston Globe<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonballet.org\/Home\/BehindTheScenes\/Tyson-Clark-Princess-Grace-Award.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Meet Boston Ballet School Trainee Tyson Clark, Boston Ballet<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcboston.com\/news\/local\/17-year-old-is-boston-ballet-rising-star\/26701\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">17-Year-Old Is Boston Ballet&#8217;s Rising Star, NBC Boston<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/grants.pgfusa.org\/award-winners\/view\/Tyson-Clark\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tyson Clark, Princess Grace Foundation<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baystateparent.com\/2016\/11\/30\/flying-high-somerville-teen-leaps-into-ballet-elite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Flying High: Somerville Teen Leaps Into Ballet Elite, Baystate Parent<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pointemagazine.com\/boston-ballet-trainee-princess-grace-award-2412900709.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Boston Ballet Trainee Receives a Princess Grace Award, Pointe Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Video links:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/C5j1b74A5q0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cArtifact\u201d William Forsythe \u201c2nd Cannon\u201d<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=650326926713710\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">My Obsession | Tsukiyo Trick Tuesday<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qsrTUp4VH7A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Somerville teen makes a balletic leap<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcboston.com\/on-air\/as-seen-on\/new-rising-star-of-boston-ballet_necn\/26699\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Rising Star of Boston Ballet<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Social media:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Instagram <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tys.ali\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@tys.ali<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyson Ali Clark Boston Ballet II: (2017-2019) Boston Ballet: Second Soloist (2019-present) Tyson Ali Clark began his dance training at age 3 [&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-7522","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\/7522","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=7522"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19463,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7522\/revisions\/19463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}