Early life
Hurlin was born in New York City and raised in Westchester County, New York.[2][3] Her mother, was a Paul Taylor Dance Company dancer and left the company when she was 14 weeks pregnant with Hurlin.[4] Her father was a stage manager with the company and later Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS's production manager. Hurlin started creative movement at age three, then ballet at age five. When she was eight, her mother sent her to Westchester Dance Academy, a competitive dance school, where Hurlin trained in jazz and lyrical dance in addition to ballet, and performed around the East Coast on weekends.[1] At age 11, she competed at the Youth America Grand Prix, and won a scholarship to the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School (JKO School).[5] At the time, she preferred lyrical dance and later recalled her mother "dragged" her to the school, though gradually found herself enjoying ballet and decided to pursue it professionally.[1]
Career
Between age eleven and thirteen, Hurlin performed in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular as Clara.[6] In 2010, whilst she was a student with the JKO School, she created the role of Young Clara in Alexei Ratmansky's The Nutcracker, which was performed by the American Ballet Theatre.[7]
Hurlin first danced with the American Ballet Theatre's Studio Company, then became an apprentice with the main company in 2013, and a corps de ballet member in 2014.[2] In 2015, she danced Taylor's Company B, which had been created when her mother was in his company.[4] Whilst in the corps de ballet, she also created a role in Morris' After You, and the role of Mademoiselle Marianne Chartreuse in Ratmansky's Whipped Cream.[2] She also performed solo roles in The Sleeping Beauty,[8] La Bayadère, Le Corsaire, Don Quixote, Giselle, Swan Lake, Ratmansky's The Firebird and MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet.[2]
Hurlin was promoted to soloist in 2018.[9] The following year, she represented ABT at the Erik Bruhn Prize with colleague Aran Bell. The pair performed a pas de deux from Don Quixote and Let Me Sing Forevermore, which was created for them by Jessica Lang. Hurlin won the female category.[10] Since her promotion, she created several roles, including Hail in Ratmansky's The Seasons,[1] Greased Lighting in Tharp's A Gathering of Ghosts[11] and in Whiteside's New American Romance.[12] She had also appeared as Young Jane Eyre in Marston's Jane Eyre,[1] in Lang's Garden Blue,[5] Tharp's In the Upper Room and Deuce Coupe.[1]
In March 2020, Hurlin originated the role of Callirhoe in Ratmansky's full-length ballet Of Love and Rage in Costa Mesa, California.[13] However, ABT's spring season, which included the New York premiere and some of Hurlin's major debuts, was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[14] During the pandemic, she and Bell, who were quarantining together, performed Let Me Sing Forevermore at Central Park, filmed for ABT's virtual gala in May 2020.[15] In March 2021, Hurlin performed the world premiere of Ratmansky's Bernstein in a Bubble, created while a group of ABT dancers were in a bubble in Upstate New York earlier that year.[16] In the summer, she took part in the company's eight-city tour, performing outdoors and mainly with members of the corps de ballet.[17]
In 2022, at the company's first season at the Metropolitan Opera House since the pandemic, Hurlin danced as Kitri in Don Quixote, Odette/Odile in Swan Lake, and Callirhoe in the New York premiere of Of Love and Rage.[18][19][20] Towards the end of the season, she was promoted to principal dancer.[21]
