Keith Roberts (dancer)

Keith Roberts is a professional dancer who performed in Twyla Tharp's Las Vegas show Sinatra Dance With Me, which opened on December 11, 2010 and ran through April 2, 2011

He previously starred as Hank in Tharp's Broadway show Come Fly Away (March 25, 2010 – September 5, 2010). He danced with American Ballet Theatre (ABT) from 1987–99, during which time he also performed on Broadway in Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake and in Fosse. He has worked extensively with Twyla Tharp since 1988, originating leading roles in most of her ballets at ABT and Twyla Tharp Dance, and in her Broadway shows Movin' Out and Come Fly Away and has regularly staged Twyla Tharp ballets worldwide.

Roberts was born in Denver, Colorado into a military family. His interest in dance began when he saw his younger sister's dance recital. He joined his sister in jazz and tap lessons, followed by ballet lessons when his family was stationed in Germany. Back in the U.S. at age eleven, Roberts auditioned for the School of American Ballet, the San Francisco Ballet School, and the Houston Ballet Academy summer programs. Accepted by all three, Roberts attended Houston, during which time he decided to pursue a professional career. He moved away from home at thirteen to attend the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, from which he graduated in 1987. Roberts also attended the School of American Ballet Summer Program and danced with Julie Kent at the School of American Ballet's New Choreography workshop performance in July 1986.

In 1987, aged seventeen, Roberts joined American Ballet Theatre (ABT) as a member of the corps de ballet at the invitation of Artistic Director (1980–89) Mikhail Baryshnikov. Baryshnikov "served as an artistic role model for Roberts" and "suggested to Twyla Tharp that Roberts would be suited to her work." Roberts's dancing earned consistent praise from New York dance critics, who also noted his versatility. Dance Magazine's Gus Solomons Jr. called Roberts "a stylistic chameleon".

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