Elena Diner Stein

Elena Stein was born in Moscow, Russia. She studied ballet in Perm for two years before returning to Moscow to continue her training at the Bolshoi School. Ms. Stein came to the United States at age 17 to attend the School of American Ballet, the official school of New York City Ballet. She was invited to join New York City Ballet in 1994 as a member of the corps de ballet.

Ms. Stein has danced numerous corps roles from the Company's vast repertory including Balanchine's Ballo Delia Regina, Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet, Cortege Hongrois, Divertimento from “Le Baiser de la Fee”, Episodes, Firebird, The Four Temperaments, Jewels, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Serenade, La Source, Stravinsky Violin Concerto, Swan Lake, Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3, Vienna Waltzes, Walpurgisnacht Ballet, and Western Symphony; Peter Martins' Concerti Armonici, Fearful Symmetries, Harmonielehre, Jeu de Cartes, and The Sleeping Beauty (Eloquence and White Cat); Jerome Robbins' Fanfare (Flutes) and Eliot Feld's Organon. She has danced a featured role in George Balanchine's LA SONNAMBULA. She originated the role of "Maria" in Jerome Robbins' staging of WEST SIDE STORY SUITE for NYCB and also a soloist role in Christopher Wheeldon's MERCURIAL MANOEUVRES. Ms. Stein left the Company in 2001.