Quick Facts

Born: Los Angeles, California
Trained: The School of American Ballet and American Ballet Theatre Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School in New York City
Joined: 2016
Corps de Ballet since: 2018

Five Things to Know

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2. Larkin was active in sports as a child in his hometown of Los Angeles, playing basketball and baseball before starting in ballet. He also studied musical theatre and was inspired by the work of American dancer Bob Fosse.
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5. He moved to New York City at 15 to pursue his dance training and joined The National Ballet of Canada as an RBC Apprentice in 2016.
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9. He loves Christmas and The Nutcracker. Larkin dances the featured role of the Fox in James Kudelka’s staging for the National Ballet, partnering a Sheep amidst a flock of lambs.
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12. He appears in many of the National Ballet’s classical and contemporary works, such as Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, Romeo and Juliet, The Winter’s Tale, Marguerite and Armand, Angels’ Atlas, Being and Nothingness and Orpheus Alive.
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15. In 2021, Larkin appeared in Guillaume Cote’s hugely successful immersive work Touch.