GUEST DANCER

Verb Ballets welcomes Robert Carter as a special guest dancer for the fall. He has been an American primo donna ballet dancer for Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo for over 25 years . As a lead dancer and its most senior member, Carter is the public face of the all-male dance troupe. Carter was born and was raised in Charleston, South Carolina. He started dancing at age eight, and first saw the Trocks at age ten, which inspired him to dance like them, en pointe, around age 12. He trained at the Ivey Ballet School and the Joffrey Ballet School. He has performed with a number of dance groups, including the Florence Civic Ballet, Bay Ballet Theater, and the Dance Theater of Harlem.