Maxfield Haynes

Maxfield Haynes is an American Queer Afro-Latiné polyglottal artist with roots in the South, West Coast, and Brooklyn/LES. Their professional career began at age 16 with the Louisville Ballet under Bruce Simpson, and continued on through full merit scholarships to attend the San Francisco Ballet School, Houston Ballet Academy, Dance Theatre of Harlem School, and HAMU Performing Arts University in Prague, Czech Republic. They received their Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Dance from NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 2018, with concentrations in Social and Cultural Analysis, Russian Language Studies, and Dance Pedagogy under Sean Curran and Pamela Pietro.

Company work includes touring with Complexions Contemporary Ballet and Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo as a soloist traveling across the US, UK, Europe, New Zealand, and Japan. They have made guest appearances with Dance Heginbotham, Ballet 22 and Ballez. In 2022 they made history as the first genderfluid dance soloist hired at the Metropolitan Opera House in NYC to dance roles choreographed for both men and women en pointe in Julie Taymor’s “The Magic Flute”. Most recently, they toured as a principal dancer with Emmy, Grammy, and Tony award winning artist Billy Porter and made their London West End Debut at the Theatre Royale Drury Lane.

Their work as a choreographer has been featured at Lincoln Center, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Guggenheim Works and Process, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and WSA/Palm Heights Grand Cayman.

They have been featured in the Dec Issue of Vogue Magazine guest edited by Marc Jacobs, the New York Times, Berliner Zeitung, Broadway World, Pointe, Dance Magazine’s Top 25 To Watch list, and on the cover of New York Magazine. Found everywhere @itsmaxfield