Slowly change comes Chyrstyn Fentroy

[Tapfan]

Chyrstyn Fentroy has been promoted to principal at Boston Ballet. Good for her and good for them. She is a gorgeous dancer with exceptional musicality.  It shouldn't be, but unfortunately such occurrences are  still news. 

Edited December 24, 2021 by Tapfan

[Drew]

Congratulations to her. I don't know the Boston Ballet dancers and went to look for some footage of Fentroy on youtube. There is very little and all of it of dates way back--but what there is does show her a beautiful dancer. (It would be great to see something more recent.) Here she is in a video posted in 2018 rehearsing Forsythe's Pas/Parts and talking about her work on it.

 

[ECat]

Than you for the video @Drew Congratulations to Chrystyn!  She is gorgeous!

[its the mom]

Very happy for Chyrstyn. But I have to say that Boston has always been at the forefront of hiring persons of color. While there has not been a black principal since Tai Jimenez, there are other minority principals, as well as a healthy number of minority dancers through all of the ranks. https://www.bostonballet.org/Home/The-Company/Dancers/FullCompany.aspx