Kyle
Davis
Kyle Davis (he/him) is from Green Bay, Wisconsin. He trained at Makaroff School of Ballet and on scholarship at Rock School for Dance Education and North Carolina School of the Arts, and attended summer courses on scholarship at Milwaukee Ballet School, the School of American Ballet, and Pacific Northwest Ballet School. He also studied with Ethan Stiefel and Warren Conover. He joined Pacific Northwest Ballet as an apprentice in 2008 and was promoted to corps de ballet in 2009, soloist in 2016, and principal in 2020.
In 2008, Kyle won the Prix de Lausanne competition in Lausanne, Switzerland. He also won various awards in the Youth American Grand Prix Regional and Finals in 2005 and 2006. He was a 2007-2008 recipient of the Elizabeth Harriet Weaver Memorial Scholarship and the Martha and Spencer Love Foundation Scholarship for Excellence in the Arts at the North Carolina School of the Arts.
Kyle’s works for PNB’s NEXT STEP choreographers’ showcase include Sylvia Pas de Deux (2012), Fanfare and Waltz from “Sylvia” (2013), A Hundred Ways to Paint the Portion of a Plane Bounded by Such a Curve, Part Two (2015), Make It So (2016), and Variegated Voices (2017). In 2014, he choreographed the third act of Sylvia for PNB School’s Annual School Performance. He has also created work for Chop Shop Contemporary Dance Festival and was a 2017 choreographic resident at University of North Carolina School of the Arts. In 2018, Kyle choreographed A Dark and Lonely Space for PNB’s mainstage. In 2021 he choreographed Las Estrellas for PNB’s digital season.
Featured & Leading Roles
George Balanchine
Allegro Brillante
Agon
Coppélia
(Franz)
Divertimento from “Le Basier de la Fée”
Emeralds
The Nutcracker
(Cavalier, Solider Doll, Hot Chocolate, Tea, Candy Cane)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(Oberon, Puck)
Prodigal Son
(Friend)
Rubies
Slaughter on Tenth Avenue
(Morrisine)
La Source
Square Dance
Tarantella
Theme and Variation
Andrew Bartee
arms that work
Peter Boal
Giselle
(Albert, Peasant pas de deux)
Alejandro Cerrudo
Little mortal jump
One Thousand Pieces
Ulysses Dove
Dancing on the Front Porch of Heaven
William Forsythe
New Suite
The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude
Paul Gibson
Rush
Marco Goecke
Place a Chill
Ronald Hynd
The Sleeping Beauty
(Prince Florimund, Bluebird pas de deux, Gold and Silver pas de trois)
Jiří Kylián
Petite Mort
Jessica Lang
Her Door to the Sky
Jean-Christophe Maillot
Roméo et Juliette
(Benvolio, Acolyte)
Annabelle Lopez Ochoa
Cylindrical Shadows
Justin Peck
Debonair
The Times Are Racing
Year of the Rabbit
Crystal Pite
Emergence
Plot Point
Yuri Possokhov
RAkU
(Monk)
Alexei Ratmansky
Concerto DSCH
Pictures at an Exhibition
Wartime Elegy
Jerome Robbins
The Concert
Dances at a Gathering
Kent Stowell
Carmina Burana
Cinderella
(Prince, Jester, Evil Sprite)
Nutcracker
(Prince)
Swan Lake
(Prince Siegfried, Jester, Wolfgang, Pas de trois, Neapolitan)
Susan Stroman
TAKE FIVE…More or Less
Twyla Tharp
Brief Fling
Waiting at the Station
(Sokn)
Waterbaby Bagatelles
Original Roles
Donald Byrd
Love and Loss
Jessica Lang
Ghost Variations
Let Me Mingle Tears With Thee
Edwaard Liang
The Veil Between Worlds
Mark Morris
Kammermusik No. 3
Matthew Neenan
Bacchus
Price Suddarth
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