Claire Kretzschmar

RESIDENT CHOREOGRAPHER

Claire Kretzschmar is a choreographer, dancer, teacher, podcast host and former soloist with New York City Ballet (NYCB). She trained at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and the School of American Ballet prior to joining NYCB as an apprentice in 2010. At NYCB, she performed several featured roles in works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Alexei Ratmansky, Justin Peck, and Kyle Abraham, and she rose to become a soloist dancer in 2018. Since retiring from the company in October 2022, Ms. Kretzschmar now shares her love of ballet through teaching, choreographing, speaking, and occasionally dancing. Her choreography credits include Rachmaninoff Variations and Rhapsodie for the New York Choreographic Institute and A Ceremony of Carols for Ballet Hartford. She regularly teaches creative movement to NYC public school students and co-hosts NYCB’s podcast, “The Rosin Box”.  Ms. Kretzschmar also co-founded Arthouse2B, a Catholic arts organization in NYC that seeks to restore culture by restoring the heart of the artist. She has a bachelor’s degree in Communications from Fordham University and is the recipient of the 2017 Janice Levin Award and the 2015 Martin E. Segal Award for rising artists.