Sascha Radetsky

Biography

Sascha Radetsky

Radetsky played the role of Charlie Simms in Columbia Picture’s feature film Center Stage, starred in Mandy Moore’s affiliated music video I Wanna Be With You and was recent cast in the role of Ross for the Starz Network ballet Drama "Flesh and Bone".

He played the principal role of Ross in Starz television network series Flesh and Bone, set for release beginning November 8th, 2015. He has appeared in print advertisements for Capezio and MPG Sport. As a child, he starred in the PBS film Home at Last, in the NBC series Midnight Caller, and in commercials for Crest Toothpaste, Teddy Grahams, Tonka Toys, Kenner Toys, and Hallmark Cards.

Born in Santa Cruz, California, Radetsky began his ballet studies in the San Francisco Bay Area with Ayako Takahashi and Damara Bennett. At the age of 15, he was invited to study in Moscow at the Bolshoi Academy under the renowned men’s teacher Pyotor Pestov. After a year in Russia, he studied at the Kirov Academy in Washington, D.C. under Roudolf Kharatian and Andrei Garbouz. He also studied at the summer programs of the School of American Ballet, the San Francisco Ballet School, the Bolshoi Academy at Vail, Colorado, and with Mikhail Baryshnikov at American Ballet Theatre’s School of Classical Ballet.

Radetsky joined the corps de ballet of American Ballet Theatre in 1996 and was promoted to soloist in 2003. In 2008, he joined the Dutch National Ballet as a principal dancer, performing roles such as Albrecht in Giselle, Basilio in Don Quixote, and the Son in Prodigal Son. He returned to ABT in 2010, retiring from the company in 2014. Over the course of his career, Radetsky has danced the works of choreographers such as George Balanchine, Fredrick Ashton, Michel Fokine, Mark Morris, Paul Taylor, Lar Lubovitch, Christopher Wheeldon, Alexei Ratmansky, Stanton Welch, William Forsythe, Benjamin Millipied, Kenneth MacMillan, Twyla Tharp, Jose Limon, Antony Tudor, John Cranko, Agnes de Mille, Jerome Robbins, Ann Reinking, Jorma Elo, Hans Van Manen, Jiri Kylian, and John Neumeier. He has created roles in ballets by Tharp, Morris, Welch, Elo, Millipied, Wheeldon, Gomes, and Ratmansky.

Radetsky is a frequent teacher and performer in ballet galas and festivals throughout the world, and has appeared as a guest principal with companies such as The Pacific Northwest Ballet, the Berlin Staatsballett, Ballet San Jose, Ballet do Theatro Municipal of Rio de Janeiro, and the Mongolian State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet. In 2012, he choreographed for Bucknell University’s Department of Theatre and Dance. He is a repetiteur-in-training with the Antony Tudor Ballet Trust.

Radetsky studied at Long Island University and St. Mary’s College, and beginning in the fall of 2015, he will serve as an artistic fellow at NYU’s Center for Ballet and the Arts. He has written articles for Vogue.com, Dance Magazine, Dance Spirit, Shinshokan Dance Magazine, and Newsweek.

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