Cynthia Harvey is the current Artistic Director of the American Ballet Theatre Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis School and a former Principal Dancer at American Ballet Theatre and The Royal Ballet. She has guest performed with Baryshnikov and Company, Nureyev and Friends and numerous other companies worldwide.
In addition to teaching, Harvey is co-author of Physics of Dance & the Pas de Deux. She re-staged The Sleeping Beauty and created her own Giselle, The Kingdom of the Shades from La Bayadère, as well as Don Quixote. Harvey has been president of The Prix de Lausanne jury and is an International Dance Council member.