Peter Martins

The daughter of him and Darci Kistler was arrested for burglary and felony theft after going on a crime-spree around Camden, Maine on August 2017. She was caught on film. She was released on a $1,500 bail.

He invited Laine Habony to join New York City Ballet as an apprentice in November of 2013.

Martins was inducted into the National Museum of Dance's Mr. & Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Hall of Fame in 2008.

Still Chairman of the New York City Ballet and the School of American Ballet. As well as Artistic Director of the NYCB. [2006]

He and wife Darci Kistler were nearly killed when their home in Connecticut caught fire in 1996 when she was pregnant with their first child. There were candles on the Christmas Tree and it got out of control.

In 1992, Scot J. Paltrow of the Los Angeles Times referred to Peter Martins as, "the former heartthrob danseur noble of the City Ballet, the tall, muscular Dane known for having the most perfect fifth position on any stage".

When he became the sole Chairman and the Artistic Director of the New York City Ballet, numerous press accused him of ruining and blaspheming everything George Balanchine and his his innovations of ballet were about. In 1988, Vanity Fair reported that critics accused him of strewing "garbage in the halls of the House of Balanchine".

Was nominated for Broadway's 1986 Tony Award as Best Choreographer for "Song & Dance."

He is known for his work on The Merry Widow (1983), Live from Lincoln Center (1976) and The Nutcracker (1993).

Was named man of the year by Danish American Society, 1980.

He began creating dances in 1977 with Calcium Light Night, a series of abstract modernist studies to the music of Charles Ives which remains a critical favorite. Balanchine encouraged him from the beginning, and critics responded early on to his seeming promise as Balanchine's aesthetic heir. Martins created or staged nearly 50 works in his first fifteen years as a choreographer--but the critical consensus is that his works are not yet fulfilling his early promise.He seems still to be seeking his own voice, and this is no easy task in the face of such expectations. By his own admission he would not be listed among the top ten choreographers of his time.

During the 1970's, he was avidly into disco-dancing.

In his youth, he studied ballet with the School of the Royal Danish Ballet and danced with the company from 1965 to 1969. He eventually danced as a guest artist with the legendary New York City Ballet and left the Royal Danish Ballet and even his own native homeland to join NYCB as a permanent member.

Peter Martins was born on October 27, 1946 in Copenhagen, Denmark.