Profile: American Ballet Theatre Dancers

New York City is home to some of the most extraordinary young dancers around. Fox 5's Julie Chang's got a backstage pass to meet three of them at American Ballet Theatre.

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Tickets for American Ballet Theatre's 2009 Metropolitan Opera House season, priced $19-$130, are available online, at the Met box office, or by phone at 212-362-6000.

Soloists Misty Copeland, Daniil Simkin and Craig Salstein will all be performing throughout the weekend. ABT's spring season at the Metropolitan Opera House runs through July 11. More about the soloists we featured:

>MISTY COPELAND

>CRAIG SALSTEIN

>DANIIL SIMKIN

A calendar of performances that includes names of the dancers cast in each performance:
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>ABT CALENDAR

>AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE
The Metropolitan Opera House
Lincoln Center
Off Columbus Avenue/Broadway (between 63rd and 64th Streets)
Upper West Side

FROM THE WEB SITE: American Ballet Theatre is recognized as one of the great dance companies in the world. Few ballet companies equal ABT for its combination of size, scope and outreach. Recognized as a living national treasure since its founding in 1940, ABT annually tours the United States, performing for more than 600,000 people, and is the only major cultural institution to do so. It has also made more than 15 international tours to 42 countries as perhaps the most representative American ballet company and has been sponsored by the State Department of the United States on many of these engagements.