Skylar Brandt

Skylar Brandt was born in Purchase, New York and began her training at the age of six with teachers Diana White and Christian Claessens at Scarsdale Ballet Studio. She also studied with Susan Jaffe, Valentina Kozlova, and Fabrice Herrault. She attended the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at American Ballet Theatre from 2005-2009, under the direction of Franco DeVita. Brandt spent five summers at the ABT Summer Intensive in New York as a National Training Scholar and a Bender Foundation Scholar. Brandt was a silver medalist at Youth America Grand Prix in 2004 and 2008. She has 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 performed as Swanilda in Coppelia for a tribute to Frederic Franklin as part of the Guggenheim Museum's Works & Process. 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. In 2009, Brandt performed an excerpt from Alexei Ratmansky’s The Nutcracker at an ABT event and was invited to dance in Japan. She is profiled in an ABT II feature on the web series Dance Media 212. Brandt joined ABT II in 2009.

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