Sascha Radetsky
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Sascha Radetsky (born March 29, 1977) is a soloist with the American Ballet Theatre and an actor.
He was born in Santa Cruz, California, and began studying ballet in the San Francisco Bay Area. He was invited to study at the Bolshoi Academy in Moscow when he was 15 and after spending a year there, he went to The Kirov Academy of Ballet. He later studied on a scholarship in the summer programs of the School of American Ballet, the American Ballet Theatre's School of Classical Ballet with Mikhail Baryshnikov and the San Francisco Ballet School. Radetsky joined the American Ballet Theatre as an apprentice in 1995, moving up to corps de ballet the following year and named a soloist in 2003, where he remains today.
He starred in the 2000 movie Center Stage and appeared in the Mandy Moore music video "I Wanna Be with You" from the movie's soundtrack. He has also had lead roles in the PBS television movie, Home at Last, and the NBC television series Midnight Caller.
In 2006, Radetsky married fellow ABT soloist Stella Abrera. The two wed in his hometown of Santa Cruz, CA.
In 2008, Sascha Radetsky left ABT to join Dutch National Ballet as a first soloist (the company's highest rank)
