MATTHEW MURPHY American Ballet Theatre New York, NY USA BIO | POSTS

It’s time to add to your collection! Today we have the very special guest, Mr. Sascha Radetsky, soloist with ABT. I’m so ecstatic to have gotten so many response to these questions from the dancers in the company and I can’t wait to share them with you. You’ll notice an outdoor theme to Sascha’s answers, which is part of what has made him such a great friend. On top of being an overall great guy, he has a great love for the outdoors, and especially Montana. He tends to know more about my hometown than I do. Enjoy!

1. Favorite New York Location: Right now, at home
2. Favorite Restaurant: Wing Wong in Chinatown
3. If you could be on place in the world right now, where would it be? In the Rockies
4. Performance that changed your life: Dancing Fancy Free for the first time–the realization of a lifelong dream
5. Favorite Band: Jimi, Cash, The Beatles, Miles, Janis–this is too hard
6. Biggest Guilty Pleasure Movie: Last of the Mohicans
7. Favorite Book: Top five? The Big Sky, A.B. Guthrie, Jr.; Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry; The Tracker, Tom Brown, Jr.; Fools Crow, James Welch; Shogun, James Clavell; On the Road, Jack Kerouac; Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith…too hard
8. Favorite Comfort Food: Anything with avocado
9. Childhood Idol: Tom Brown Jr., Crazy Horse, Hugh Glass, Muhammed Ali, Misha, my dad
10. Favorite Role to Dance: In the Upper Room, Fancy Free, Rodeo, Petite Mort
11. Who would you want to play you in a movie? Daniel Day-Lewis
12. Favorite Artist: Van Gogh
13. Favorite Historical Era: The West from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee
14. If You were not a dancer, what would you be? A park-ranging writer, hiker, biker, fighter.
15. Where do you see yourself in 20 years? Somewhere under a big sky.