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The happy couple is getting ready to waltz down the aisle!
Zac Posenand ballet dancer Harrison Ballgot engagedand shared the exciting news on Instagram in August 2022.
The fashion designer — a red carpet go-to for celebrities such asSarah Jessica Parker,Katie HolmesandCoco Rocha— captioned the carousel, “Engaged 💍 8.8.22 @harrisonball 🤍.”
While Posen announced his engagement news with a roundup of sweet photos, Ball turned to his Instagram Story to repost congratulatory tributes from family and friends.
Though it’s unclear when the newly engaged couple first met, Posen made his relationship with BallInstagram officialin April 2021. Since then, they’ve attended several events together and graced each other’s social media pages.
From his prestigious ballet background to his travels around the world, here’s everything to know about Ball.
He began dancing at the age of four
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Ball got his start in dance at a very young age. A Texas native, Ball moved to South Carolina to train in dance at the Charleston Ballet Theatre.
Per hisLinkedIn, Ball later attended the Professional Children’s School, a college preparatory institution in New York City for aspiring actors and dancers.
“I feel like I skipped the process of being a kid,” he said in anAOL Originalvideo. “Everything was so intense so quickly and now I want to take it in a little bit, but too much of it is already out there. I can’t bring it back.”
He attended the School of American Ballet
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Ball was a student at the eliteSchool of American Ballet, the most renowned ballet school in the United States. It is also the associate school of the New York City Ballet. Initially, he took a course there during the summer of 2007 and then enrolled as a full-time student later that year.
He was a New York City Ballet dancer
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Ball first joined the New York City Ballet in 2012 as a member of the corps de ballet, a group of dancers who are not soloists or principal dancers. The year prior, he was an apprentice with the company.
It wasn’t until February 2017 that he was promoted to soloist. He was upped to principal dancer in 2022.
A year later, Ball retired from the New York City Ballet due to an injury and unbearable arthritis.
“It’s gotten to the point where I just can’t do my job without being in an enormous amount of pain,” he toldThe New York Times. “I lived a lot of lives in the past 12, 13 years that I’ve been in this company. And I got the great privilege of dancing on some of the best stages in the world, dancing the best ballets in the world, dancing for the best dancers in the world, with the best dancers in the world.”
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He has a love-hate relationship with ballet
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“Ballet is a person to me. I spend my whole day with this person,” he said. “Sometimes I flow with it. It can be so loving and embracing, but it’s so mean sometimes too.” He continued, “I fight with it or against it. Sometimes I just want to choke it. I just want to put it down.”
He and Zac Posen like to travel all over the world
When he’s not training in the studio or performing on the most prestigious ballet stages in America, he’s enjoying his time with Posen. Whether they are exploring different countries or attending red carpet events together, the couple is always beaming when they are in each other’s company.
source: people.com
