NYCB's Emma Von Enck and Anthony Huxley to star in BBT's "La Sylphide"
Boca Ballet Theatre is excited to welcome New York City Ballet’s Emma Von Enck and Anthony Huxley back to Boca to star in La Sylphide on July 27-28, 2024! Audience members will remember these exceptional dancers from our 2023 production of The Nutcracker and Summer Dreams. Learn more about Emma and Anthony below, and don’t forget to reserve your tickets to La Sylphide today! You don’t want to miss this unforgettable ballet classic, filled with magic, romance, and ethereal dancing!
Emma Von Enck
Emma began her dance training at the age of five at the Royal School of Ballet with Joanne Morscher. She later studied at the Cleveland School of Dance with Gladisa Guadalupe and at the Cleveland Ballet Conservatory with Kerry Skuderin. She attended summer courses at the School of American Ballet in 2011 and 2012 before enrolling as a full-time student at SAB for the 2012 winter term. In August of 2016, Von Enck became an apprentice with NYCB. As an apprentice, she originated a corps role in Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s Unframed and danced featured roles in George Balanchine's The Nutcracker® (Doll) and Nicolas Blanc’s Mothership. In August of 2017, she joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet and was promoted to the rank of soloist in January of 2022. Emma was promoted to the rank of principal dancer in May of 2024! She has danced roles in George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker®, Justin Peck’s Copland Dance Episodes, Peter Martin’s The Sleeping Beauty, and Christopher Wheeldon’s Polyphonia, among many others.
Anthony Huxley
Anthony Huxley began studying at the School of American Ballet in the summers of 2002 and 2003. He enrolled as a full-time student from 2003 to 2006, and in October of 2006, he was asked to become an apprentice with New York City Ballet. In July of 2007, Huxley joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet. He was promoted to the rank of soloist in July 2011 and to principal dancer in June 2015. Since joining the Company, Huxley has performed featured roles in Agon, Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes, “Rubies” from Jewels, Romeo + Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Mercurial Manoeuvres, among many others.
La Sylphide
One of the oldest ballets still commonly performed, La Sylphide tells the story of a Scotsman named James, who wakes from a dream on the morning of his wedding to see a beautiful winged slyph. Elusive and playful, she professes her love for him. James’ obsessive pursuit of the otherworldly creature leads him to abandon his fiancée and follow the sylph into the dangerous realm of the forest sprites, where he realizes that in reaching for an unobtainable love, he has lost everything.
Saturday, July 27, 2024, at 7:30 PM
Sunday, July 28, 2024, at 2 PM
Countess de Hoernle Theatre at Spanish River High School
5100 Jog Road, Boca Raton, FL 33496