LA Times - Q&A: Star ballerina Tiler Peck is in L.A. to prove that BalletNow goes far beyond ‘Swan Lake’
When New York City Ballet last performed in Los Angeles in 2004, Tiler Peck was an apprentice, so new to the company that she had yet to appear onstage in New York. The Bakersfield native has since become one of the company's most admired and versatile principal dancers. But while New Yorkers watched her advance rapidly through the ranks, dancing in a wide-ranging repertory with both technical brilliance and interpretive sophistication, Peck has been waiting to perform on a Los Angeles stage.
