CHOREOGRAPHER
IF THE BODY SPEAKS artEmotion Choreographic Workshop 2023
MASS HYSTERICAL National Choreographers Initiative 2022, Original Score by Katy Jarzebowski
THE THING WITH FEATHERS
Ballet West Choreographic Festival 2021
In collaboration with the Sundance
Institute, Original Score by Katy Jarzebowski
BUT A DREAM
Ballet West Choreographic Festival 2019
EARTH MOVEMENTS,
A SYMPHONY FOR BALLET
In collaboration with The Way of the Rain,
Artistic Director Sibylle Szaggers Redford
Performed at the 68th UN International
NGO Conference
August 2019
LADEN
Commissioned by RUUDDANCES for the
Utah Arts Festival 2017 Ballet West II Repertoire
HOMAGE Ballet West Innovations 2015
MIXED SIGNALS Ballet West Innovations 2014
FORCES AT PLAY Ballet West Innovations 2012
REGARDING US Ballet West Innovations 2011
NEW YORK CHOREOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE Spring Session 2004
TRAINING
The School of American Ballet, 2005
Summer Intensives at San Francisco Ballet School, The Royal Ballet School, Exploring Ballet with Suzanne Farrell, and Ballet Adriatico.
ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTION: Christina Fagundes, Julie Caprio, Francois Perron, Debra Wingert, Nancy Bielski, David Howard, Studio Maestro, Princeton Ballet School.
DANCER
PRINCIPAL DANCER, BALLET WEST
Joined Ballet West in 2007
Promoted to Demi-Soloist in 2011
Promoted to Soloist in 2013
Promoted to Principal in 2015
Career highlights include Odette/Odile in Swan Lake; Aurora, Lilac Fairy and Carabosse in The Sleeping Beauty; Juliet and Lady Capulet in Michael Smuin’s Romeo and Juliet; Cinderella and Fairy Godmother in Ashton’s Cinderella; Myrthe in Giselle; Sugarplum Fairy in Willam Christensen’s The Nutcracker; Diamonds Pas de Deux, Rubies Soloist Woman, and Emeralds Walking Pas de Deux in Balanchine’s Jewels; First and Second Movement Principal Couple in Balanchine’s Symphony in C; Principal Couple in Balanchine’s Chaconne and Square Dance; Woman #2 in Forsyth’s In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated; roles in Kylian’s Return to a Strange Land, Overgrown Path, Forgotten Land, and Petit Mort, as well as original roles in ballets by Val Caniparoli, Nicolo Fonte, Matthew Neenan, Edwaard Liang, and
Helen Pickett, among others.
APPRENTICE, SUZANNE FARRELL BALLET
Kennedy Center Residence, 2007
