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Ethan Stiefel (born 1973 in Tyrone, Pennsylvania) is a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre (ABT). His fiance is Gillian Murphy, also a principal dancer with ABT. He is the only son of a Lutheran minister who became a prison warden in New York; their last name is pronounced "Stee-fell" and is German for "boot." He is an avid motorcyclist. He grew up riding dirt bikes, currently owns a Harley-Davidson Wide Glide and once drove 5600 kilometres across the north-eastern US with ballerina Gillian Murphy riding pillion. He is also a Green Bay Packers fan. He has been called "the most... MORE

Ethan Stiefel (born 1973 in Tyrone, Pennsylvania) is a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre (ABT). His fiance is Gillian Murphy, also a principal dancer with ABT. He is the only son of a Lutheran minister who became a prison warden in New York; their last name is pronounced "Stee-fell" and is German for "boot." He is an avid motorcyclist. He grew up riding dirt bikes, currently owns a Harley-Davidson Wide Glide and once drove 5600 kilometres across the north-eastern US with ballerina Gillian Murphy riding pillion. He is also a Green Bay Packers fan. He has been called "the most advanced male ballet dancer in the world" right now. Stiefel began ballet training in Madison, Wisconsin at the Monona Academy of Dance at age eight. He became involved with classical dance through his older sister, who was taking a class. The teacher was interested in getting Ethan to take class because boys in ballet are a rarity. He studied for two years at the Milwaukee Ballet School under Judith Warren and at the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet before moving to New York City to attend ABT's Studio Company (now known as ABT II)' and School of American Ballet on scholarship. While there, LESS