Michael is a dancer raised on a dairy farm in Cato, Wisconsin. He began his dance training at the Virginia School of the Arts, and has spent time with various summer programs such at the Boston Ballet, the Houston Ballet, and the Royal Ballet School. This is his fifth season with the Milwaukee Ballet
(and he’s only 22!)
It was funny: I was walking down the street behind Michael and his brother. At the time I didn’t know that it was him, and I remember thinking that they looked like they would be fun people to photograph. I was so happy when I realized that I WAS going to be photographing one of them! Yay!