Carter Smalling

Apprentice

Carter Smalling

Apprentice

VITA

Carter Smalling was born in Kansas City, Missouri, USA and grew up in Seattle, Washington. In 2018 he began his ballet training at the Academy of Russian Classical Ballet in Redmond, Washington. In 2021 he continued his training in the Boston Ballet School Post-Graduate Program. In September 2022 he came to Stuttgart to attend the John Cranko School from which he graduated in summer 2024.

In 2021 he reached the Semi-Final of the Youth America Grand Prix the 2nd Place Senior Men’s Contemporary.


During the 2024/25 season Carter Smalling is an apprentice with the Stuttgart Ballet.
Photo Carlos Quezada

REPERTOIRE

Corps de ballet Roles with the Stuttgart Ballet
  • Romeo and Juliet (John Cranko)
  • The Lady of the Camellias (John Neumeier)
  • The Place of Choice (Roman Novitzky)

Specially created Roles at Noverre: Young Choreographers
  • Zwischen Wind und Asphalt (Carlos Strasser)

Roles as a student
  • Don Quijote (Yanina Mikhaylynk)
  • Grand Pas de deux from: The Nutcracker (Marius Petipa): Cavalier
  • La Nascita di Venere (Emanuele Babici)
  • One with Mozart (Jorma Elo)
  • Shimmer Simmer (Kinsun Chan)
  • Spanish Dance (Catherina Mora)
  • Suite für zwei Klaviere (Uwe Scholz)
  • The Nutcracker (Mikko Nissinen)
  • The Nutcracker (Yanina Mikhaylynk)

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