THE BREAKOUT STARS OF 2022

Here are the actors, pop stars, dancers and artists who broke away from the pack this year, delighting us and making us think.

(This post was originally published on?www.nytimes.com?on December 16, 2022.)

By Maya Salam, Senior?Staff?Editor on the Culture desk at The New York Times

For many of us, 2022 was the year we emerged more fully from our pandemic cocoons, venturing out to movie theaters, museums, concerts— exploring our entertainment with eager, if weary, hearts and eyes before returning home to our TVs. Along the way, artists and performers across the world of the arts had, for the first time in years, the chance to connect more closely and fully with audiences, and deliver big. Here are seven stars who captured our attention in this moment and gave us a fresh perspective.

Dance

CATHERINE HURLIN

She may only be 26, but the ballerina Catherine Hurlin has been ascending for more than half of her life. As a girl, she secured a full scholarship to the American Ballet Theater’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School. Not long after, she became an apprentice with the A.B.T., then a member of the corps de ballet and eventually a soloist in 2018.

Then this summer, she was one of three dancers promoted to the role of principal.

"The simple serenity of Hurlin’s face, framed by cascading curls, is riveting, as is the daring amplitude of her expressive, singular dancing," Gia Kourlas, the dance critic of The Times, wrote in June of Hurlin’s performance in Alexei Ratmansky’s "Of Love and Rage."

And in July, when Hurlin made her debut in the double role of Odette-Odile in “Swan Lake,” Kourlas called her “the future of Ballet Theater, the kind of dancer who has a fresh take on story ballets."

Her nickname? Hurricane.

Salam, Maya. "The Breakout Stars of 2022." The New York Times. December 16, 2022. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/16/arts/breakout-stars-2022-music-tv-movies.html.