The New York City Ballet’s rising young principal dancer Chase Finlay broke his foot during a performance of “Swan Lake” and is out for the season.
A company rep confirmed, “Chase was injured during a recent performance . . . which was later diagnosed as a break to his fifth metatarsal. He had surgery on his foot and is recovering well. He will be out for the remainder of [the fall] season, which ends on Oct. 13.”
The injury also means Finlay had to bow out of a planned Nov. 7 performance at Russia’s State Kremlin Palace of “Tous Les Jours,” a dance piece with music by Karen LeFrak. Word spread at the opening night of the New York Philharmonic that LeFrak was still in search of a replacement dancer.