Peter Martins is a Danish ballet dancer and choreographer. Martins did the choreography for Barbie in the Nutcracker, Barbie of Swan Lake and Barbie in The 12 Dancing Princesses.
Biography[]
Born and raised in Copenhagen, Denmark.
He was a principal dancer with the Royal Danish Ballet and with The New York City Ballet, where he joined George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins and John Taras as balletmaster in 1981, retired from dancing in 1983 at which time he became Co-Ballet Master-In-Chief with Robbins, and since 1990 has borne sole responsibility for artistic leadership of City Ballet.