IN THE NEWS // “I’m clay,” Principal Dancer Unity Phelan likes to tell the Company repertory directors, according to a recent feature in the @nytimes. “Obviously, I have some opinions, but I want the best possible product on the stage, and I want it to be the most genuine,” she said. “What I feel strongly about is that I want to be unaffected and as pure as it possibly can be.” ⁠ ⁠ Born and initially trained in New Jersey, Phelan enrolled full-time at the School of American Ballet in 2009. While a student, she befriended fellow Company member Indiana Woodward, who was promoted to the rank of principal dancer just eight hours after Unity. Woodward describes seeing her colleague debut in the second movement of Balanchine’s Symphony in C as an “extremely regal ballerina”; “I’ve seen so many exquisite ballerinas do it, and Unity was one of them now.”⁠ ⁠ Tap this post in our #linkinbio grid to read the feature.⁠ ⁠ Photo by Josefina Santos for the New York Times (@josefinasantos)⁠ ⁠ @unityphelan #unityphelan @indiana_woodward #indianawoodward #ballet #dance #dancer #pointeshoes #nycb #nycballet #newyorkcityballet