Dance

Skylar Brandt

Princess Grace Award:
Dance Fellowship, 2013

Skylar Brandt was born in Purchase, New York and began her training at the age of six at Scarsdale Ballet Studio. She attended the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at American Ballet Theatre from 2005-2009 under the direction of Franco De Vita. Brandt spent five summers at ABT's New York Summer Intensive, was a National Training Scholar from 2006-2009 and also received the Bender Foundation Scholarship in 2009. She performed the Flames of Paris pas de deux, Swanilda in Coppelia, the Act I pas de trois from Swan Lake, the lead in Les Sylphides and the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker.

Brandt was a silver medalist at Youth America Grand Prix in 2004 and 2008. As a student, she performed at the Metropolitan Opera House in The Royal Ballet's Cinderella, ABT's Le Corsaire, Coppelia, The Sleeping Beauty and ABT's 2009 Spring Gala. Brandt was invited to dance for the Antony Tudor Centennial Celebration at the Juilliard School. In 2007, she choreographed and performed in a DVD for Capezio's national campaign.

Brandt joined ABT II in 2009 where her repertoire included Medora in the Le Corsaire pas de trois, Aurora from The Sleeping Beauty and leading roles in Aszure Barton's Barbara, Jodie Gates' A Taste of Sweet Velvet, Edwaard Liang's Ballo Per Sei and Jessica Lang's Vivacce Motifs. She also danced George Balanchine's Allegro Brillante and Jerome Robbins' Interplay.

Brandt became an apprentice with the main Company in November 2010 and joined the corps de ballet in June 2011. Her roles with the Company include an Odalisque in Le Corsaire, a Flower Girl in Don Quixote, the Canteen Keeper, the Chinese Dance and one of the Nutcracker's Sisters in Alexei Ratmansky's The Nutcracker, a little swan in Swan Lake, a demi soloist in Symphony in C, and roles in Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes and In the Upper Room.

Brandt is featured in the movie "Ballet's Greatest Hits". She continues to perform in international galas.

Brandt is a recipient of the 2013 Princess Grace Award.