Linda Chapin Theater,
Orange County Convention Center
Featuring international dance
celebrities among winners of the
2015 World Ballet Competition.
Founder / Executive
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Dear Competitors, Esteemed Judges, and Honored Guests:
It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 9th World Ballet
Competition (WBC) held in Orlando, Florida, USA! The World Ballet
Competition is the premier international dance competition that each
year draws hundreds of tourists to Orlando, Florida, USA for a seven
day series of events. Garnering an impressive reputation by attracting
the highest level of talent that exists, WBC has established Orlando
as an international destination for dance. The WBC concludes with
its All Stars of Dance offering a rare opportunity to view outstanding
international dance stars, of a caliber only seen in the area through our
event.
Among unique dance education opportunities and worldwide exposure
through our internet broadcast, we are proud to each year offer cash
prizes, scholarships, job offers, and dance apparel totaling over $150,000.
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Judges
Debra Austin - USA
Carolina Ballet/Ballet Master
Debra Austin received a scholarship to the School
of American Ballet when she was 12. At 16, she
was handpicked by George Balanchine to join
the New York City Ballet. While at New York City
Ballet, Debra danced many principal roles by both
Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, one of which
was filmed for a PBS television special, Live From
Lincoln Center. She later joined the Zurich Ballet
in Switzerland where she danced principal roles in
works by all of the major choreographers. Ms. Austin toured with the
company throughout Europe. After her return to the United States, she
was invited to join Pennsylvania Ballet as a principal dancer where she
danced roles in Swan Lake, Coppelia, A Midsummer’s Night Dream,
Giselle and La Sylphide. She went on to assist Lynne Taylor-Corbett in
Ms. Taylor-Corbett’s ballet The Dancing Princesses, and in Florida was
a preliminary judge for the National Foundation for the Advancement of
the Arts.
Patricia Barker - USA
Grand Rapids Ballet/Artistic Director
Patricia Barker, former principal dancer with Pacific
Northwest Ballet, is considered one of the world’s
most gifted ballerinas. She received her early ballet
training from Lynne Williams in Richland, WA, studied
on scholarship both at Boston Ballet School with
E. Virginia Williams and Violette Verdi and Pacific
Northwest Ballet School with Francia Russell, Perry
Brunson and Janet Reed. Ms. Barker has danced in
many of the great full length ballets and contemporary
works from renowned choreographers. She performed with Pacific
Northwest Ballet extensively throughout Europe, Asia, Australia and North
America as well as a guest artists in galas worldwide. Ms. Barker danced
the lead role of Clara in Nutcracker the Motion Picture, and starred as
Titania in the BBC’s film, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She graced the
covers of Dance Magazine, Danser, Pointe Magazine, Dance Australia,
Dance Teacher, Dance Pages, Ballet Review and Dance International.
She collaborated with Freed of London, producing an instructional video
answering dancers’ most frequently asked questions about the art of
wearing Pointe shoes. She is currently a board member of the Tateuchi
Center, a performing arts center in Bellevue, Washington and on the
advisory boards for Pointe Magazine, CriticalDance.com, California Ballet
and Broadway Bound. She is also dedicated to bring greater awareness to
bone and joint health by acting as a spokes person for the United States
Bone and Joint Decade.
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Natayla BAshkatova – Russia
Cirque du Soleil/Previously Bolshoi Theater
Grigorovich Ballet,
Principal Dancer
Born in Russia, Bashkatova trained at the prestigious
Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow and Bolshoi Ballet
University. She became a principal dancer for the
Bolshoi Theater Grigorovich Ballet from 1989-1994
and immediately after was a guest principal dancer with
New York City Ballet. Her repertoire included many title
roles in the great classics including Aurora in Sleeping Beauty, Kitri in Don
Quixote, Swanhilda in Coppelia, Odette/Odile in Swan Lake among many
others. Awards include “Best Ballerina of the Festival” at the 1992 Spoleto
International Arts Festival held in Spoleto, Italy. She has toured worldwide to
countries including Holland, Greece, Egypt, Hong Kong, France, and Belgium
among many others. After moving to the United States, she joined the Cirque
du Soleil in Las Vegas as a lead dancer in Mystere. In 1998, she moved
to Orlando to perform in Cirque du Soleil’s “La Nouba” where she currently
performs. She has been featured in numerous television commercials,
interviews, and videos with Cirque du Soleil.
Susan Bello - Venezuela
Ballet Gamonet/Maximum Dance/
Principal Dancer
Susan Bello is native from Maracaibo, Venezuela
who trained with Sasha Gosic and Nedo Vojkich. In
1998, she joined Ballet de Maracaibo under direction
of Nedo Vojkick. She has also worked with directors
such as Zhandra Rodriguez and Vicente Nebrada,
and danced with Ballet Nuevo Mundo and the Ballet
Nacional de Caracas. She has performed principal
roles in The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Giselle, Don Quixote and Fire Bird,
among others. In Venezuela 1998, Susan received the awards for the Best
Classical Dancer in the national competition “Casa del Artista”. Susan dances
with Ballet Gamonet/Maximum Dance.
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Marin Boieru - Romania
Carolina Ballet/Ballet Master
Marin Boieru began his ballet training in Romania
and later trained at the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad.
Mr. Boieru came to Carolina Ballet after seven
years as principal dancer for the Miami City Ballet
under the direction of Edward Villella. He has
performed as a principal for such companies as
the Pennsylvania Ballet, Maurice Bejart’s Ballet of
the 20th Century, Roland Petit’s Ballet Company
of Marseilles, France and Opera of Bucharest. He
is the winner of the gold medal at the prestigious Varna and Moscow
Ballet competitions. Mr. Boieru starred as James in Peter Martin’s PBS
production of La Sylphide and as Albrecht on European television in the
Romanian National Ballet’s production of Giselle.
LUBA GULYAEVA – Russia
New Jersey Ballet/Ballet Mistress
A graduate of the Vaganova Ballet Academy in
Leningrad, Ms. Gulyaeva joined the Kirov Ballet in
1972, dancing featured roles in Sleeping Beauty,
Giselle, La Bayadere and Don Quixote. In the 1980s,
she was invited by Mikhail Baryshnikov to join the
staff of American Ballet Theatre where she taught
company class and coached the dancers. She also
taught all levels at the ABT School. Additional teaching
credits include the Australian Ballet in Melbourne, the School of American
Ballet in New York, and seminars at numerous universities in the U.S. Ms.
Gulyaeva’s students have gone on to dance with ABT, NYCB, Kirov, San
Francisco, North West Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Royal Ballet, American
Repertory Company, Broadway (The Music Man and Oklahoma) and
SAB. She has coached for American Ballet Theater throughout her life.
She is so skilled and respected that Mikhail Baryshnikov continues to call
upon her talents to help coach and train his dancers.
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Kate Honea - USA
Sarasota Ballet/Principal Dancer
Photo Courtesy of Barbara Banks
Kate Walsh Honea, of Longboat Key, Florida,
currently is dancing with The Sarasota Ballet,
returning for her fourteenth season in 2015/2016.
Kate trained with the Sarasota Ballet School, as
well as the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School, where
she was a trainee with the company for two years
before joining The Sarasota Ballet in 2002. She
was promoted to soloist in 2006, then to Principal in 2009. Kate has
danced lead and featured roles in ballets by Sir Frederick Ashton, George
Balanchine, Sir Kenneth MacMillan, Hans Van Manen, Anthony Tudor,
Matthew Bourne, Christopher Wheeldon, Twyla Tharp, Paul Taylor, Johan
Kobborg, Will Tuckett, Christopher Bruce and Rudolf Nureyev. She also
toured to Marrakech, Morocco for the 2005 FIFA Congress performance,
as well as toured through out Germany and Austria for the 2006 Best of
Musical Tour. Kate also appeared in Susan Stroman’s Contact in 2009.
She has choreographed four works for The Sarasota Ballet company, and
has been an instructor with the Sarasota Ballet School for thirteen years.
Kristina Kambalov - USA
First State Ballet Theatre/ School Director
Kristina Kambalov was born in Evansville, Indiana
and, at the age of nine, began studying ballet with
Jean Allenby. She continued her studies at North
Carolina School of the Arts and at the Joffrey Ballet
School and danced with Ballet Theatre Pennsylvania
and Russian Ballet Theater of Delaware. In 1999,
Ms. Kambalov co-founded First State Ballet Theatre.
Under her direction, the School of First State Ballet
Theatre has built an extraordinary record of achievement. Students of
the school have attended and received scholarships to some of the
most prestigious ballet schools in the world and have been accepted to
compete in Prix de Lausanne, World Ballet Competition, American Ballet
Competition, and Youth American Grand Prix. Students of the school
have gone to dance with Festival Ballet of Rhode Island, Alabama Ballet,
Los Angeles Ballet, Richmond Ballet, Tulsa Ballet, and First State Ballet
Theatre. In 2007, FSBT students were invited to perform at the 50th
Anniversary Gala di Danza in Italy’s Spoleto Festival die Du Mondi. In
2006, Ms. Kambalov received the Wilmingtonian Award for outstanding
contributions to the quality of life in Wilmington.
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PASHA KAMBALOV - Russia
First State Ballet Theater/Artistic Director
Pasha Kambalov is a graduate of the Vaganova
Ballet Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia under
the direction of Konstantin Sergeyev, class of V.S.
Zimin. During his career he danced with Donetsk
Ballet in the Ukraine and Komi Republic State Opera
and Ballet in Russia, touring extensively throughout
the USSR, the United States and Europe. In the
U.S., he danced with Russian Ballet Theater
under the direction of Honored Artist of Russia Lev
Assaouliak. Kambalov is the founding Artistic Director of First State Ballet
Theatre, Delaware’s only company. Under his directorship the company
has performed great classical ballets including Giselle, The Sleeping
Beauty, Coppélia, Don Quixote, and Swan Lake and contemporary works
including Viktor Plotnikov’s Pinnochio and Alex Buckner’s A Midsummer
Night’s Dream. Kambalov helped to establish residency for the company
and the school of First State Ballet Theatre at the historic Grand Opera
House in Wilmington, Delaware and has successfully built artistic
partnerships with The Delaware Symphony Orchestra, Opera Delaware,
The Grand Opera House and the City of Wilmington. He was awarded the
2005-06 Teacher Recognition Certificate from the National Foundation
for Advancement in the Arts. In the same year, he was awarded the
Wilmingtonian Award for outstanding contributions to the quality of life in
Wilmington.
Jean Logrea - Romania
Graz Ballet, Westchester Ballet/Director
Logrea came to the United States from Austria, where
for seven years he was a principal with the Graz Opera
House ballet company. He trained at the Choreographic
Institute in Cluj (Romania) in Classical Ballet,
Character, and Folk Dance, he was a principal at the
Opera House Cluj, as well as a teacher at the affiliated
school for nine years. There he was entrusted with a
class of especially talented students, all of whom are
now dancing internationally with major companies. He toured extensively
throughout Europe and the USSR in such major roles as Mercutio in
Romeo and Juliet, the Jester in Swan Lake, the pas de deux from Le
Corsaire, and the Rocker in The Miraculous Mandarin. Jean is the CoDirector of the Logrea Dance Academy in Ossining, NY and he is the
Co-Artistic Director of Westchester Ballet Company.
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COSMIN MARCULETIU - USA
Festival Ballet Providence/Ballet Master
Cosmin is a native Transylvanian from Sibiu,
Romania. At age 9, Cosmin was discovered in a
nation-wide search for artistic talents and accepted
into the Academy of Arts and Choreography in
Cluj-Napoca, RO. He completed the Academy with
honors and also received certification in pedagogy
and choreography. After graduating, Cosmin was
engaged as a soloist with the Romanian National
Ballet in Cluj-Napoca, RO and the touring company
Europe Ballet. He continued his professional dance career with the
Croatian National Ballet in Croatia’s capital, Zagreb. Cosmin danced in
various productions and commercials and performances. Cosmin has
established himself as a master ballet instructor in New England and
the east coast since his arrival to the USA in 2002. He was on the
dance faculty of the Boston Arts Academy and artistic associate at Jose
Mateo’s Ballet Theatre where he coached, taught and rehearsed students
and company members. Cosmin has also received excellent reviews for
his performances in the various productions from the Boston Globe, the
Boston Herald, and the Metro. In August of 2010 Cosmin founded the
International Ballet Academy of Norwell which is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit
organization dedicated to serve the South Shore of Massachusetts, New
England and artistic communities abroad.
Radenko Pavlovich - Croatia
Columbia Classical Ballet/Artistic Director
Radenko Pavlovich, a native of Sarajevo, Yugoslavia,
was selected by Yugoslavian officials to attend the
Sarajevo Opera Ballet School. He quickly advanced to
the top of his class and earned the privilege to attend
the prestigious Vaganova Institute in St. Petersburg,
Russia. In his final year, he gained acceptance, and
a full scholarship, to attend the Royal Ballet School in
London, England, becoming the only foreign student
in a highly elite graduating class. Upon graduation,
Grand Ballet Master, Rudolf Nureyev, noticed him
immediately, and went on to coach him personally in matters of technique
and character. Mr. Pavlovich went on to earn highest honors at the Balkan
Ballet Competition under Mr. Nureyev’s tutelage. Mr. Pavlovich began
dancing with the Austrian National Ballet. He became a soloist with the
Croatian National Theatre of Yugoslavia and London Festival Ballet,
and later became a principal with the Munich State Opera Ballet, Ballet
Casa Della Cultura in Equador, and Atlanta Ballet. After retirement, Mr.
Pavlovich relocated to Columbia, where he opened the Pavlovich Dance
School in Forest Acres and
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founded the Columbia Classical Ballet. The company, from its inception,
has been comprised of the highest-caliber dancers, qualifying Columbia
Classical ballet as one of the most distinctive and reputable companies
of its size.
RODNEY RIVERA - Puerto Rico
Ballet Brio/Artistic Director
Recognized dance figure of Puerto Rico (PR),
Rivera’s ballet teachers included Vladimir Issaev,
Carlota Carrera, and Silvia Marichal and later he
finished his studies under scholarship at Point
Park University. In 1994, he became the first male
Puerto Rican to participate in the International
Ballet Competition in Jackson, Mississippi. Rivera
has performed leading roles in many traditional
classical works as well as countless world premieres
dancing in major theatres around the globe
including Taiwan, Cuba, Haiti, Egypt, Japan, USA, Aruba, Mexico, Spain
and Italy. In 1999, he joined Ballet Brio of Bayamon invited by Elisabette
Calero who encouraged him to continue on growing as a choreographer.
His prolific career as a choreographer include collaborations with Ballets
de San Juan, Zig Zag Ballet, Connecticut Ballet, Ballet Municipal of San
Juan, Ballet Concierto de Puerto Rico, Hermanos Cepeda Foundation,
and Balleteatro Nacional of PR. In 2006, his piece titled “Donde estan?”
won the Gold Medal at the Argentina International Dance Competition. In
2010, The Puertorrican Institute of Culture recognized him as the best
choreographer of the year for his enormous contribution to dance in PR.
That same year, he became the artistic director at Ballet Brio. Under his
direction, Ballet Brio has become one of the main contemporary dance
companies in PR and Latin America.
Jeffrey Rogers - USA
Ballet West/ Principal Faculty Member
Jeffrey Rogers began his early training in Germany
under Maureen Gergun, a former Soloist from
the Royal Ballet in London. He then continued his
formation at the Olaker Youth Civic Ballet in Virginia,
under Christine Parks, an original member of the
Ballet Society, which became the American Ballet
Theatre. Rogers was awarded full scholarships to the
School of American Ballet, ABT, and Joffrey where he
trained under renowned teachers Stanley Williams,
Andrei Kramirevsky and Richard Rapp. On another full scholarship at
the National Academy of Arts in Illinois, he completed his formation in
the Vaganova, Bournonville and Cecchetti techniques, working with
such great teachers as Petrus Bosman, Georgina Parkinson and Valerie
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Taylor of the Royal Ballet and Francesca Corkle of the Joffrey Ballet,
Flemming Halby, Larissa Skylanskya and Toni Lander of The Royal
Danish Ballet. The honor being one of the first recipients of the prestigious
Princess Grace Foundation Award for Artistic Excellence in dance,
ultimately lead Rogers to a long career as Principal dancer with Ballet
West in Salt Lake City under the artistic directorships of Bruce Marks,
John Hart and Jonas Kåge. Rogers has danced all of the major principal
roles in the classical repertoire from Albrecht to Siegfried as well as in
the best contemporary works by renowned choreographers including Val
Caniparoli’s The Lady of the Camellias and Lambarena, Eugene Loring’s
Billy the Kid, John Butler’s Carmina Burana, Paul Taylor’s Company B,
and William Forsythe’s Artifact II. Currently an adjunct professor at the
University of Utah’s Dance Department, Principal teacher the Ballet West
Academy, company teacher for Ballet West, and a Master Teacher and
Judge for the world renowned YAGP, Rogers also teaches at companies
and schools nationally.
MARINA STOLYAR - RUSSIA
International Guest Performer
& Master Pianist
Stolyar received her Bachelor’s degree from the
prestigious Gnessin Music College in Moscow
and her Master’s degree from the Gorky State
Conservatory. Since her early teenage years she
has worked with wellknown Russian actors, singers
and directors in Moscow Theaters and television
programs. After her arrival in the U.S. in 1991,
she continued her career as a solo performer and
musical director. A significant portion of her career has been dedicated
to ballet: as a master pianist for classes and performances as well as
teaching music to dancers and teachers. She has worked at various major
ballet competitions and programs in the USA including International Ballet
Competition in Jackson, Youth America Grand Prix in New York, The
Harid Conservatory, many regional festivals and workshops. For the last
several years she has been the pianist for World Ballet Competition in
Orlando, Florida. In March 2014 and 2015 she also served on the jury
of the World Ballet Competition OPEN in Sibiu, Romania. She has also
released several audio CD’s for ballet class.
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Carlos Valcárcel - Spain
The School of Ballet Arizona/School Director
Carlos Valcárcel began his studies at Victor Ullate School
in Madrid and Maria de Avila Ballet School under Lola
de Avila and Ana Baselga. He danced principal roles at
Ballet Victor Ullate and was named Soloist at Balletto di
Toscana and later at the Stuttgart Ballet of Germany. Mr.
Valcárcel graduated from Royal Conservatoire of Madrid
and received an award of distinction upon graduating
from the Royal Academy of Dance teacher’s course.
He directed and was principal teacher of his own ballet
school in Madrid before joining the Showa School for
Performing Arts in Tokyo, under the artistic direction of Sir Peter Wright
CBE. At the Showa School, he was the Principal Tutor and Lecturer of
the Ballet Department. In 2006, Mr. Valcárcel began working at The
Washington Ballet as a teacher and choreographer. In 2010, he was
appointed Ballet Master of the Trainee Program. Mr. Valcárcel has also
been credited with coaching principal ballerinas such as Miss Tamara
Rojo of The Royal Ballet. Mr. Valcárcel’s students have won medals at
the Youth America Grand Prix, USA International Ballet Competition, and
the World Ballet Competition in Orlando. He was the recipient of YAGP’s
“Outstanding Young Choreographer Award” in 2009. Since joining
Ballet Arizona in 2011 as Director of its School, Mr. Valcárcel created
and expanded the School’s summer intensive program and its PreProfessional Program while increasing exposure through local television
and media. Mr. Valcárcel is enthusiastically committed to preparing the
next generation of young professional dancers for their careers, and
he is excited about expanding the recreational dance program and the
community outreach programs of Ballet Arizona.
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Chin, Allyson
Cleto, Ana
Graff, Taela Rose
Halama, Marina
Hurtado, Emma
Crow, Emma
De Janon, Isabelle
Hoffmann, Alexandra
Huerta, Emma
Klenotich, Jasmine
Lawton, Caroline
Lukasik, Maya
Miro, Martina
Moeller, Emily
Motta, Carolina
Nip, Elizabeth
Penney, Madison
Santoro, Trinity
Sean, Kenzo
Skaggs, Amber
Stamm, Reina
Tan, Clare
Tintiangco, Mahalaya
Vásquez, Eva
Allyson Chin - San Bruno, California, USA
Trains at: Westlake School for the Performing Arts
Current Coach: Viktor Kabaniaev, Cristina Fargas-Newell, Irene Liu, and Maia Siani
Awarded Platinum Award at 2014 National NYCDA, High Gold Award at 2014 Regional
Onstage Dance, and Petite Miss Photogenic Winner at 2013 Regional Spotlight Dance
Cup.
Ana Victoria De Souza Cleto - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Trains at: Escola de Danca Alica Arja
Current Coach: Daniela Silva
Attended Summer Intensives of Miami City Ballet for the past two years. Competed at
YAGP in Brazil and Danzamerica in Argentina.
Emma Elizabeth Crow - Hackettstown, New Jersey, USA
Trains at: New Jersey School of Dance Arts
Current Coach: Luba Gulyaeva and Christine Taylor
Featured as Clara and Fritz in New Jersey Civic Youth Ballet’s The Nutcracker. Also
performed in NJCYB’s Hansel and Gretel and Carnival of the Animals.
Isabelle De Janon - Panamá, Panamá
Trains at: Academia de Danzas Steps
Current Coach: Analida Galindo, Patricia de Orillac, Isabelita Lewis, Tania Ashkenazi
Awarded Company Dancers Scholarship for Dance Theatre USA this July. Attended 2014
Irina Dvorovenko and Maxim Beloservkovsky Summer Intensive. Awarded Diamond Medal
and 2nd Place at Danza Activa 2014.
Taela Rose Graff - North Miami, Florida, USA
Trains at: Pembroke Ballet
Current Coach: Gypsy Hall
2013 USA National Champion in Rhythmic Gymnastics Level 5, Silver Medalist 2014
Level 7. Awarded full scholarship to Miami City Ballet. Accepted to 2015 Summer
Programs of Kirova Ballet Academy and Pembroke Ballet.
Marina Rae Halama - Long Grove, Illinois, USA
TRAINS AT: Center Academy of Dance
CURRENT COACH: Alyce Keaggy-Brinkmann and Victoria Vargas
1st Place Classical at 2015 YAGP Indianapolis Regional. 3rd Place at 2015 Valentina
Kozlova International Ballet Competition Regional in New Orleans.
Alexandra Rose Hoffmann - Mesa, Arizona, USA
Trains at: Master Ballet Academy
Current Coach: Olga Tarasova
Featured as Clara in Master Ballet Academy’s The Nutcracker. 1st Place Classical
at 2014 YAGP Denver Regional. Attended 2014 Summer Intensives of ABT Young
Dancer’s Workshop and Ballet Arizona.
Emma Huerta - Pembroke Pines, Florida, USA
Trains at: Pembroke Ballet
Current Coach: Gypsy Hall
Awarded a full tuition scholarship to Festival Ballet Providence’s Summer Intensive at
the 2014 World Ballet Competition in Orlando. Received invitation to the Joffrey Ballet
Summer Intensive at the 2014 American Dance Competition.
Emma Sargent Hurtado - San Antonio, Texas, USA
Trains at: Saint Mary’s Hall School
Current Coach: Vanessa Bessler
Trained with Ballet Masters: Marek Cholewa, Elena Kunikova, Dmitry Tuboltzev, Inna
Stabrova and Alexei Moskalenko. Featured as Cinderella in 2014 production of “The
Glass Slipper”.
Jasmine Jade Klenotich - Palm Bay, Florida, USA
Trains at: Space Coast Ballet Academy & Kirova Ballet Academy
Current Coach: Janna Kirova and Nikolai Moroz
Introductory
Category
Scholarship awards include West Coast Dance Explosion, Joffrey Ballet, Dance Makers
Inc, Fusion. Featured as Clara in Space Coast Ballet’s 2014 Nutcracker production. 1st
Runner Up of 2014 West Coast Dance Explosion’s National Title.
Caroline Haley Lawton - San Antonio, Texas, USA
Trains at: Saint Mary’s Hall School
Current Coach: Vanessa Bessler
Featured as Fairy Godmother in school production of “Cinderella”. Trained with Ballet
Masters: Marek Cholewa, Elena Kunikova, Dimitry Tuboltzev, Inna Stabrova and Alexei
Moskalenko through workshops at Saint Mary’s Hall School.
Maya Isabel Lukasik - Denver, Colorado, USA
Trains at: Classic Dance Academy
Current Coach: Michelle Dolighan-Rodenbeck
Attended 2014 Summer Intensive of Classic Dance Academy. Performed in Classic
Dance Academy’s The Nutcracker and understudy for role of Clara.
Martina Miro - Alaro, Spain
Trains at: Escola de Dansa de Alaro
Current Coach: Carlos Miro
2nd Place Contemporary at YAGP Semifinals in Paris, France. Awarded scholarship to
Berlin State Ballet School in Germany. Gold Medalist in Classical at Dance World Cup
2014 in Portugal.
Emily Kim Moeller - Daly City, California, USA
Trains at: Westlake School for the Performing Arts
Current Coach: Viktor Kabaniaev, Tina Fargas-Newell
Attended Summer Intensives of Westlake School for the Performing Arts and performed in
WSPA’s Nutcracker. Platinum Ensemble Award at 2014 NYCDA Nationals.
Carolina Motta - Panama City, Panama
Trains at: Academia de Danzas Steps
Current Coach: Patricia Orillac
Attended Irina Dvorovenko and Maxim Beloserkovsky Summer Intensives 2013 and
2014. Awarded Gold Medal at 2014 Danza Activa.
Elizabeth Demetra Nip - San Francisco, California, USA
Trains at: Westlake School for the Performing Arts (WSPA)
Current Coach: Cristina Fargas-Newell
NYCDA 2014 Outstanding Dancer and 2012 Technical Award. Featured as Clara and
Dew Drop in 2014 production of “The Nutcracker”. Attended 2014 Summer Intensive of
WSPA Professional with Viktor Kabaniev.
Madison Rae Penney - Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Trains at: Master Ballet Academy
Current Coach: Irena Slawomir Wozniak
Hope Award Winner at 2015 YAGP San Diego Regional. Featured as Clara in Phoenix
Ballet’s The Nutcracker. Awarded a full summer scholarship to Houston Ballet and
recipient of Miss Starpower in Phoenix.
Trinity Elise Santoro - Crest Hill, Illinois, USA
Trains at: Faubourg School of Ballet
Current Coach: Watmora Casey
Introductory
Category
1st Place at 2015 NYCDA Chicago and 2nd Place Contemporary at 2015 YAGP Chicago
Regional. Attended Summer Intensives of Faubourg School of Ballet 2013 and 2014.
Kenzo Jia You Seah - Singapore, Singapore
Trains at: Cheng Ballet Academy
Current Coach: Hsienfa Cheng and Yaling Tan
Recipient of Encouragement Award at 2015 NBA Junior Ballet Competition (Tokyo) and
2014 American Ballet Competition. Silver Medalist at 2013 Asian Grand Prix (Hong
Kong).
Amber Novella Skaggs - Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
Trains at:Master Ballet Academy
Current Coach: Irena Wozniak, Slawomir Wozniak
Hope Award Winner at 2015 YAGP Austin Regional. Awarded Full Scholarship to School
of American Ballet’s Young Dancer Workshop 2012. Featured as Clara in Phoenix
Ballet’s The Nutcracker.
Reina Ashely Stamm - Lutz, Florida, USA
Trains at: All American Classical Ballet School
Current Coach: Julio Montano and Gissell Durand
Introductory Silver Medalist at 2014 World Ballet Competition in Orlando. Hope Award
Winner at 2015 YAGP Atlanta Regional. Primary Grand Prix Winner at American Dance
Competition 2014.
Clare Elizabeth Tan - Columbia, South Carolina, USA
Trains at:Julia Moiseeva Ballet School
Current Coach: Julia Moiseeva
Champion at 2014 International Dance Challenge. Attended Summer Intensives of Kirov
Academy of Ballet in Washington, D.C. and Bolshoi Ballet Academy on scholarship.
Featured as Clara in Savannah Ballet Theater’s The Nutcracker.
Mahalaya Tintiangco-Cubales
San Francisco, California, USA
Trains at: Westlake School of Performing Arts
Current Coach:Viktor
Kabaniaev, Cristina Fargas, Malu Rivera-Peoples, Irene Liu
Awarded 1st Place Regional and 4th Place National at 2014 NYCDA. Featured in
Dancing with Nuyerev, a dance film and Sayaw, a dance documentary. 1st Place at 2014
and 2013 Onstage Regional.
Eva Vásquez - Panama, Republic of Panama
Trains at: Academia de Danzas Steps
Current Coach:Tania Ashkenazi
Gold Medal at 2014 Danza Activa Competition in Panama. Attended Irina Dvorovenko
and Maxim Beloserkovsky International Ballet Summer Intensive 2013 and 2014.
Preparatory
Category
Arias, Adriana
Brothers, Olivia
Calvo, Francesca
Corson, Jillian
Cruz, Jasmine
DeGregoris, Hadley
Dichter, Joel
Dierk, Kailey Dae
D’Ortone, Teresa
Fletcher, Abigail
Fuerte, Mia
Garelick, Olivia
Gashtarska, Stefanija Gladysheva, Margarita
Hughes, Isabella
Ikeda, Reira
Kimsey, Alaina
Ledford, Raleigh
Lino, Camila
Lukasik, Gabriele
Max, Marie-Chantal
Muller, Chloe I
Myers, Rory
Naatjes, Aurora
Preparatory
Category
Nip, Alexandra
Page, Helen
Restivo, Jessica Ann Rodriguez, Denise
Rosado, Leonardo
Ruiz, Daniela
Ruiz, Vivian Maria
Shumate, Shelby
Silva, Mariana
Smelyanskiy, Alexandra Stamm, Avery
Saiz Dormoi, Isabela
Steber, Mary
Stephens, Emily
Taratorin, Alina
Tejeira, Victoria
Tessmer, Avery
Tevaga, Uimaitua
Tibbetts, Caroline
Valdés, Victoria
Vance, Sophia
Vianna, Anna
Vlieg, Mariana
Vogel, Gabrielle
Category
Yoshitomi, Hana
Mamalakis, Nikolia
Adriana Arias - Panama, Republic of Panama
Trains at: Academia de Danza Steps
Current Coach: Isabelita Lewis, Tania Ashkenazi, Analida Galindo, Patricia Galindo
Introductory Bronze Medalist at 2013 World Ballet Competition in Orlando. Awarded full
scholarships to Summer Programs of Ballet Hispanico New York City’s and Academy of
Ballet & Jazz, School of Canadian Ballet Theatre.
Olivia Camille Brothers - Los Angeles, California, USA
Trains at: Marat Daukayev School of Ballet
Current Coach: Marat Daukayev, Hasmik Amirian, Andi Schermoly
Preparatory
2nd Place at 2014 YAGP San Francisco. Awarded scholarships to Rock School for
Dance Education and 2015 Bolshoi Ballet Academy Summer Intensive. Featured in
recurring role on ABC Family’s Bunheads as Dancer “Margaret”.
Francesca Calvo - Panama City, Republic of Panama
Trains at: Academia de Danzas STEPS
Current Coach: Patricia Galindo, Tania Ashkenazi, Analida Galindo and Isabelita
Lewis
3rd Place at 2014 Danza Activa Competition in Panama, 1st Place at 2014 Stars of the
21st Century Ballet Competition, and 1st Place at 2013 Dance Awards in New York.
Jillian Corson - Garnet Valley, Pennsylvania, USA
Trains at: Academy of International Ballet
Current Coach: Anastasia Babayeva and Denis Gronostayskiy
1st Place at 2013 American Ballet Competition and 3rd Place in 2014. Top 12 in Junior
Division at 2015 Youth America Grand Prix. Awarded scholarship to 2015 Summer
Program of Bolshoi Ballet Academy.
Jasmine Heart Cruz - San Francisco, California, USA
Trains at: Westlake School for the Performing Arts
Current Coach: Viktor Kabaniaev, Cristina Fargas, Malu Rivera-Peoples
Introductory Gold Medalist at 2012 World Ballet Competition in Orlando. National
Outstanding Dancer at 2013 New York City Dance Alliance. Featured in Dance Spirit
Magazine’s April 2014 Issue of “You Should Know”.
Hadley Lauren DeGregoris
Independence Township, New Jersey, USA
Trains at: North Jersey School of Dance Arts (NJSDA)
Current Coach: Luba Gulyaeva
Attended Summer Intensive of the New Jersey State Vaganova Workshop from 20112014. Featured as Clara, Fritz and the Harlequin Doll in the New Jersey Civic Youth
Ballet’s The Nutcracker.
Joel Cameron Dichter - Eagan, Minnesota, USA
Trains at: Secrets of Classical Ballet
Current Coach: Tatiana Berenova
Awarded scholarships to attend Next Generation Ballet’s Summer Intensive and Central
Pennsylvania Youth Ballet’s Summer Intensive.
Category
Kailey Dae Dierk - Flemington, New Jersey, USA
Trains at: North Jersey School of Dance Arts
Current Coach: Luba Gulyeava
Attended Summer Intensive of New Jersey State Vaganova Workshop. Featured as
Harlequin Doll in New Jersey Civic Youth Ballet’s The Nutcracker.
Teresa Anne D’Ortone - Collegeville, Pennsylvania, USA
Trains at: The Rock School for Dance Education
Current Coach: Bojan and Stephanie Spassoff; The Rock School Faculty
3rd Place Classical and 2nd Place Ensemble at 2015 YAGP Philadelphia Regional.
Attended Summer Intensives of The Rock School for Dance Education 2011-2014.
Abigail Morgan Fletcher - Street, Maryland, USA
Trains at: The Rock School for Dance Education
Current Coach: Bojan and Stephanie Spassoff; The Rock School Faculty
Top 12 Contemporary at 2014 YAGP Atlanta Regional and 3rd Place in 2013. Attended
Summer Intensives of The Rock School for Dance Education 2013-14.
Preparatory
Mia Fuerte - Daly City, California, USA
Trains at: Westlake School for the Performing Arts
Current Coach: Viktor Kabaniaev and Cristina Fargas-Newell
Technique Award and Outstanding Execution at 2014 NYCDA Finals in NYC. Highest
Score for Junior Ballet Division at 2014 Onstage Competition. Featured as Clara in
Westlake School for the Performing Arts’ The Nutcracker.
Olivia Adams Garelick - Cohasset, Massachusetts, USA
Trains at: International Ballet Academy of Norwell
Current Coach: Melinda and Cosmin Marculetiu
Attended 2014 Urbanity Summer Intensive. Featured as Clara in International Ballet
Academy of Norwell’s The Nutcracker. Also performed in IBAN’s Coppelia, Sleeping
Beauty, and the Magic Toy Shop.
Stefanija Gashtarksa - Skopje, Macedonia
Trains at: DMBUC “Ilija Nikolovski Luj”
Current Coach: Sonja Zdravkova Djeparoska
Silver Medalist at the 2015 World Ballet Competition OPEN in Sibiu, Romania and
featured in the WBC OPEN’s Gala of the Stars.
Margarita Gladysheva - Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Trains at:New England Movement Art, Brookline Ballet Academy
Current Coach: Cosmin Marculetiu and Ksyusha Melyukhina
Featured as Clara in New England Movement Art’s (NEMA) The Nutcracker. Awarded
Scholarship to NEMA and recipient of Dancer of the Year at Brookline Dance Academy.
Attended Summer Intensives of Bolshoi Ballet Academy.
Isabella Hughes - Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Trains at: Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington, D.C.
Current Coach: Irina Vacromeeva
Hope Award Winner at 2014 YAGP Providence Regional. Previously trained with Mme.
Morkovina at City Dance in Bethesda, Maryland and also received private training from
Vladmir Djouloukhadze.
Reira Ikeda - Singapore, Singapore
Category
Trains at: Cheng Ballet Academy
Current Coach:Hsienfa Cheng & YaUng Tan
4th Place at 2015 NBA Junior Ballet Competition in Tokyo, 2nd Place at 2014 American
Ballet Competition, and 2nd Place at 2014 NBA Junior Ballet Competition in Fukuoka,
Japan.
Alaina Morgan Kimsey - University Park, Florida, USA
Trains at: School of Russian Ballet
Current Coach: Sergiy Mykhaylov and Darya Fedotova
Performed in the School of Russian Ballet’s The Nutcracker featured as Clara and
performed in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Raleigh Ledford - San Antonio, Texas, USA
Trains at: Quenedit Ballet School
Current Coach: Ernesto Quenedit and Catalina Garza
Top 12 Classical at 2015 YAGP Austin Regional. Attended Summer Intensive of Quenedit
Ballet School 2012-14 and featured as Clara in Quenedit Ballet School’s The Nutcracker.
Preparatory
Camila Lino - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Trains at: Balletarrj Escola de Dança
Current Coach: Ana Palmieri e Romulo Ramos
1st Place Ensemble at 2014 YAGP and medalist at Danzamerica in Argentina. Attended
Summer Intensive of Miami City Ballet.
Gabriele Celeste Lukasik - Denver, Colorado, USA
Trains at: Classic Dance Academy
Current Coach: Michelle Dolighan-Rodenbeck
2nd Place Classical 2015 YAGP Denver Regional. “Miss Showbiz” Title at 2014
Showbiz Denver Regional. Attending American Ballet Theatre 2015 Summer Intensive in
California.
Nikolia Mamalakis - Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Trains at: Brookline Academy of Dance and New England Movement Arts
Current Coach: Kseniya Melyukhina and Cosmin Marculetiu
Awarded scholarship to New England Movement Arts and full scholarship to Brookline
Academy of Dance. Attended Summer Intensives of New England Movement Arts and
Garden City Ballet.
Marie-Chantal Max - Pompano Beach, Florida, USA
Trains at: The Art of Classical Ballet
Current Coach: Magaly Suarez, Ibis Montoto, Tara Mitton-Catao
Hope Award Winner at 2014 YAGP Indiana Regional. Awarded full scholarships to
Summer Intensives of 2014 Royal Winnipeg Ballet and 2015 Houston Ballet. Attended
Summer Intensives of Joffrey Chicago and Royal Winnipeg Ballet.
Chloe Muller - Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA
Trains at: Academy International Ballet
Current Coach: Anastasia Babayeva, Denis Gronostayski
3rd Place Classical and Contemporary at 2014 World Ballet Art Competition. Top
10 Classical and Contemporary at 2015 YAGP Philadelphia Regional. Awarded
scholarship to Bolshoi Ballet Academy’s 2015 Summer Intensive.
Category
Rory Kathryn Myers - Malvern, Pennsylvania, USA
Trains at: International Ballet Theater Academy
Current Coach: Alexander Boitsov and Jaelyn Fellona
3rd Place Ensemble at 2015 YAGP Philadelphia Regional. Top 12 Soloist at 2014
YAGP Philadelphia Regional. Attended Summer Intensives of International Ballet
Theater Academy.
Aurora Elizabeth Naatjes - Orlando, Florida, USA
Trains at: Ballet Academy of Central Florida
Current Coach: Vasile Petrutiu
Awarded Special Mention at World Ballet Competition OPEN Romania 2014 and
featured in Gala of the Stars. Awarded Scholarships to Summer Intensives of Next
Generation Ballet 2014 and Festival Ballet Providence 2015.
Alexandra Sophia Nip - San Francisco, California, USA
Trains at:Westlake School for the Performing Arts (WSPA)
Current Coach: Cristina Fargas-Newell
Preparatory
Attended Westlake School for the Performing Arts Professional Summer Intensives
with Viktor Kabaniev from 2011-2014. Performed in The Nutcracker as Butterfly, Dew
Drop, and Russian Dancer among many other roles.
Helen Azevedo Page - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Trains at: Escola de dança Alice Arja
Current Coach: Daniela Silva
Attended 2014 Summer Intensive of Miami City Ballet School. Competed at YAGP in
Brazil from 2013-14 and Danzamerica in Argentina from 2010-11.
Jessica Ann Restivo - Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, USA
Trains at:International Ballet Theater Academy (IBT)
Current Coach:Alexander Boitsov, Jaelyn Fellona
1st Place Classical and Top 12 Contemporary at 2015 YAGP Philadelphia Regional.
2nd Place at 2012 Youth Dance Festival of New Jersey. Attended Summer Intensives
of International Ballet Theater Academy.
Denise Natalia Rodriguez - West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
Trains at:The Art of Classical Ballet
Current Coach: Magaly Suarez and Ibis Montoto
Competed at 2013 World Ballet Competition in Orlando. Attended Summer Intensives
of Kirova Ballet 2012-13 and The Art of Classical Ballet 2014. Performed in The Art
of Classical Ballet’s Giselle and The Nutcracker.
Leonardo Rosado Gonzalez - Arecibo, Puerto Rico
Trains at: Escuela Bellas Artes de Arecibo
Current Coach: Carla Curet and Wayne Riport
Awarded full school year scholarship at School of Ballets de San Juan and School for
the Performing Arts. Recipient of Futuro Danzante Scholarship for Cosmopolitan Ballet
Theatre’s 2014 Summer Intensive in Berlin, Germany.
Daniela Ruiz - Panama, Republic of Panama
Trains at: Steps Ballet Academy
Current Coach: Isabelita Lewis, Tania Ashkenazi, Analida Galindo, Patricia Galindo
Introductory Bronze Medalist at 2013 World Ballet Competition in Orlando. 2nd Place at
2014 Stars of the XXI Century and awarded scholarship to 2015 Summer Intensive of
Dance Theatre USA.
Vivian Maria Ruiz - Miami, Florida, USA
Category
Trains at:Stars Dance Studio
Current Coach: Angel Armas, Victor Smalley, Leydis Sanchez
1st Place Contemporary at 2015 YAGP Tamp Regional and 2nd Place Contemporary
at 2015 Universal Ballet Competition. Awarded scholarships to Joffrey Ballet School,
Sarasota Cuban Ballet, and Debbie Allen Dance Academy.
Isabela Saiz Dormoi - Panama City, Panama
Trains at:Academia de Danza STEPS
Current Coach: Isabelita Lewis
Member of 2011 and 2012 Artistic Gymnastic National Team in Panama. Gold Medal
at Danza Activa 2014. Attended 2014 Irina Dvorovenko and Maxim Beloserkovsky
International Ballet Summer Intensive in Panama.
Shelby Rose Shumate - Tallahassee, Florida, USA
Preparatory
Trains at: World Ballet, Inc.
Current Coach: Henry Hernandez
Featured in World Ballet’s 2013-14 The Nutcracker: A Diversity Celebration as Clara
and in Alice in Wonderland as Alice. In 2014, competed at the World Ballet Competition,
YAGP Atlanta Regional and American Dance Competition.
Mariana Fonseca Silva - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Trains at: Escola de Dança Alice Arja
Current Coach: Daniela Silva and Raphael Spyker
Attended 2014 Summer Intensive of Miami City Ballet School. Participated in 2013-14
Youth America Grand Prix in Brazil and 2011 Danzamerica in Argentina.
Alexandra Sophia Smelyanskiy
Mountain View, California, USA
Trains at: Bayer Ballet Academy
Current Coach: Inna Bayer
Competed at the 2014 World Ballet Competition in Orlando. Attended Summer Intensive
of Bayer Ballet Academy.
Avery Marie Stamm - Lutz, Florida, USA
Trains at: All American Classical Ballet School
Current Coach: Julio Montano and Gissell Durand
Attended Summer Intensives of All American Classical Ballet School 2013 & 2014.
Featured as Ballerina Doll and in various roles of All American Classical Ballet School’s
The Nutcracker.
Mary Margaret Steber - Sarasota, Florida, USA
Trains at: School of Russian Ballet
Current Coach: Sergiy Mikhaylov and Darya Fedotova
Top 24 Junior Classical Division at 2015 YAGP Tampa Regional. Attended Summer
Intensives of the School of Russian Ballet 2013 and 2014.
Emily Elizabeth Stephens -
West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
Trains at: International Ballet Theater Academy
Current Coach: Alexander Boitsov and Jaelyn Fellona
Pre-Competitive Artistry Award & 2nd Place Ensemble at Youth Dance Festival of New
Jersey. Top 12 Contemporary & Top 12 Ensemble at 2014 YAGP Philadelphia Regional.
Category
Alina Taratorin - Palo Alto, California, USA
Trains at: Bayer Ballet Academy
Current Coach: Inna Bayer
2013 Introductory Silver Medalist and 2014 Preparatory Silver Medalist at World Ballet
Competition in Orlando. Awarded scholarship to 2014 Summer Intensive of Central
Florida Ballet.
Victoria Tejeira - Panama City, Republic of Panama
Trains at: Academia de Danzas STEPS
Current Coach: Patricia Galindo, Tania Ashkenazi, Analida Galindo and Isabelita
Lewis
Awarded scholarships to Next Generation Ballet, American Academy of Ballet, and
Peridance Capezio Center. Attended Summer Intensives of Vaganova School of Ballet in
St. Petersburg, Russia and Next Generation Ballet among others.
Preparatory
Avery Tessmer - Boynton Beach, Florida, USA
Trains at: The Art of Classical Ballet
Current Coach: Magaly Suarez and Ibis Montoto
Top 12 at 2015 YAGP Denver Regional and Top 10 at 14 American Dance Competition.
Attended Summer Intensives of The Art Of Classical Ballet and the Carreno Festival.
Tua Tevaga - Orlando, Florida, USA
Trains at: Ballet Academy of Central Florida
Current Coach: Vladimir Bykov
Awarded scholarships to Summer Intensives of Next Generation Ballet and Ballet
Arizona. 2011 and 2010 National Winner of “Miss Showbiz”. Contestant in Lifetime
Network’s “Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition: Season 1”.
Caroline Grace Tibbetts - San Antonio, Texas, USA
Trains at: Saint Mary’s Hall School
Current Coach: Vanessa Bessler
Top 12 at YAGP 2013 Dallas Regional and 2014 Houston Regional. Attended Summer
Intensives of Saint Mary’s Hall Academy from 2011-14. Trained with ballet masters
Marek Cholewa, Elena Kunikova, and Alexei Moskalenko.
Victoria Valdés - Panama City, Panama
Trains at: Academia de Danzas Steps
Current Coach: Patricia Galindo, Analida Galindo, Tania Ashkenazi and Isabelita
Lewis
Featured in World Ballet Competition’s 2013 All Stars of Dance gala. Competed at the
Dance Awards Competition in NYC and Danza Activa Competition in Panama.
Sophia Carolyn Vance - Loveland, Ohio, USA
Trains at: Ballet Tech of Ohio
Current Coach: Claudia Rudolph Barrett and Ka-Ron Brown Lehman
3rd Place Classical and Contemporary at 2015 YAGP Pittsburgh Regional. Awarded
scholarship to Joffrey Ballet School’s 2014 Summer Intensives. Performed Snow Queen
in The Nutcracker for the past two years.
Anna Julia Vianna - Niteroi, Brazil
Trains at: Maria Olenewa School of Dance
Current Coach: Ronaldo Martins and Rachel Ribeiro
Pre-Professional
Category
2nd Place at 2013 International Festival of Cabo Frio and 2nd Place at 2014
International Festival of Goiânia. 1st Place Ensemble at 2014 YAGP Regional.
Mariana Vlieg - Panama City, Panama
Trains at: Academia de Danzas Steps
Current Coach:Patricia Orillac, Isabelita Lewis, Tania Ashkenazi, Analida Galindo
Awarded Scholarship to Dance Educators of America’s National Dance Workshop 2012,
Class Scholarship for Nuvo/Jump, and 2015 Dance Theatre USA’s Company Dancers.
2nd Place at 2014 Danza Activa in Panama.
Gabrielle Vogel - Westlake, California, USA
Trains at: Next Generation Ballet
Current Coach: Peter Stark, Ivonne Lemus, Tatiana Cater, Giselle Gulliem
Awarded scholarships to 2015 Summer Intensives of Pacific Northwest Ballet and Ellison
Ballet. Recipient of 2nd Place Classical and 2nd Place Contemporary at 2015 YAGP
Boston Regional.
Hana Yoshitomi - Singapore, Singapore
Trains at: Cheng Ballet Academy
Current Coach: Hsienfa Cheng and Yaling Tan
Encouragement Award at 2015 NBA Junior Ballet Competition in Tokyo, 2nd Place at
2015 NBA Junior Ballet Competition in Japan, and 2nd Place at Commonwealth Society
Teachers of Dancing 15th Singapore Dance Competition.
Amaut, Sahsha
Aragão, Ana
Bakewicz, Lauren
Bassett, Anna
Berl, Cara
Bodea, Maria
Calheiros, Lorenna
Cedeño, Diana
Pre-Professional
Category
Ciampi, Taylor
De León, Ana
Diaz, Andrea
Emiliani, Ximena
Getz, Jasmine
Felício, Constanza
Foster, Camden
Fujita, Mako
Hall, Amanda
He, Jessica
Kelley, Chloe
Khaw, Victoria
Kurdin, Abigail
LeRette, Cassandra
Mariscal, Jade
Meadors, Perry
Melendez, Tatiana
Missano, Juliana
Moray, Jolie
Motta, Michelle
Obediente, Ida
Park, Soyoun
Pierpoint, Callie
Price, Jillian
Pre-Professional
Category
Ramos, João
Richardson, Ashleigh Robles, Allison
Roçado, Manuela
Rodrigues, Letícia
Sales, Marlon
Sepulveda, Hanna
Sherrill, Julia-Rose
Sing, McKenna
Suzuki, Ricako
Tan, Zecharie
Viray, Alyssa
Wheeler, Maya
Wilkes-Davis,
Vogel, Eliana
Warren, Bryn
Yap, Sabrina
Zhu, Sylvia
Sahsha Urpi Encarnación Amaut -
West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
Trains at: Academy of International Ballet
Current Coach: Anastasia Babayeva, Denis Gronostayskiy
Attended Summer Intensives of Academy of International Ballet and awarded scholarship
to Bolshoi Ballet Academy’s 2015 Summer Intensive. Competed at 2014 American
Ballet Competition and World Arts Ballet Competition.
Ana Clara Aragão - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Trains at: Balletarrj Escola de Dança
Current Coach: Ana Palmieri and Romulo Ramos
1st place Ensemble at 2014 Youth America Grand Prix. Attended 2014 Summer
Intensive of American Academy of Ballet.
Lauren Bakewicz - Webster, New York, USA
Awarded scholarship to Carreno Dance Festival. Attended Summer Intensives of Inna
Ballet and Western New York Ballet. Private training from Finus Jhung, Jonathan Paul,
and Rebekah von Rathonyi.
Anna Katherine Bassett - Elkton, Maryland, USA
Trains at: First State Ballet Theatre
Current Coach: Pasha and Kristina Kambalov
Featured as Clara in Mid-Atlantic Ballet’s The Nutcracker and as Tiny Alice in MidAtlantic Ballet’s Alice in Wonderland.
Cara Alyssa Berl - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Trains at:The Rock School for Dance Education
Current Coach: Bojan and Stephanie Spassoff; The Rock School Faculty
Pre-Professional
Category
Trains at:Inna Ballet
Current Coach: Inna Esipova
Attended American Ballet Theatre’s Young Dancer Workshop and on scholarship to
Summer Intensives of Orlando Ballet and Florida Ballet. Featured as Clara in Florida
Ballet’s The Nutcracker.
Maria Ruxandra Bodea - Bucharest, Romania
Trains at: La Sylphide Ballet School
Current Coach: Lorelei Bari, Anca Mandrescu, Sergiu Anghel
2013 & 2014 Bronze Medalist and 2015 Silver Medalist at World Ballet Competition
OPEN Romania. Featured in the WBC OPEN’s Gala of the Stars.
Lorenna Calheiros - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Trains at:Balletarrj Escola de Dança
Current Coach: Ana Palmieri and Romulo Ramos
Soloist competitor at World Ballet Competition 2013 and 2014 in Orlando. 1st Place
Ensemble at 2014 YAGP. Awarded full scholarship for American Academy of Ballet’s
2015 Summer Intensive.
Diana Isabel Cedeño - Panamá City, Panamá
Trains at: Academia de Danzas Steps
Current Coach: Isabelita Lewis, Tania Ashkenazi, Analida Galindo,
Patricia Orillac
1st Place and Diamond Medal at 2014 Danza Activa in Pas de Deux. Attended two week
Russian Technique Intensive in St Petersburg, Russia and 2014 International Festival of
Dance in Cuba on scholarship.
Taylor Ciampi - Street, Maryland, USA
Trains at: The Rock School for Dance Education
Current Coach: Bojann Spassoff, Stephanie Spassoff, The Rock School Faculty
Awarded full scholarships to Houston Ballet’s Summer Intensive and year round program,
American Ballet Theatre Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School, Bolshoi Ballet Academy
and Ballettschule Theater Basel.
Ana Victoria de León - Panamá, Republic of Panama
Trains at: Academia de Danzas Steps
Current Coach: Isabelita Lewis and Patricia Galindo
Awarded full scholarship to Summer Intensives of Sarasota Cuban Ballet School, Orlando
Ballet School, and Carreño Dance Festival. Outstanding International Dancer at 2013
American Dance Competition.
Awarded scholarships to National Ballet Academy of Denver, Sarasota Ballet, and Joffrey
Ballet School in New York City. 1st Place Solo at 2013 Danza Activa Panama and
highest scored solo at 2013 Dance Educators of America.
Ximena Emiliani - Panama City, Panama
Trains at: Academia de Danzas Steps
Current Coach: Isabelita Lewis
3rd Place at 2013 Valentina Kozlova International Ballet Competition. Awarded
scholarships to Dance Open Festival in St Petersburg Russia, Houston Ballet, and year
round to Valentina Koslova Dance Conservatory.
Pre-Professional
Category
Andrea Isabel Diaz - Panama, Republic of Panama
Trains at: Academia de Danzas Steps
Current Coach: Isabelita Lewis, Patricia Orillac
Constanza Felício - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Trains at: Balletarrj Escola de Dança
Current Coach: Ana Palmieri and Romulo Ramos.
Finalist of the World Ballet Competition 2014 in Orlando, Florida. Participated in “The
Nutcracker” at the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro and invited to dance as special
guest artist in Brazil.
Camden Alie Foster - Palos Verdes, California, USA
Trains at: Marat Daukayev School of Ballet
Current Coach: Marat Daukayev, Hasmik Amirian
Top 12 at 2015 YAGP San Francisco Regional. Featured as Snow Queen and Masha in
Marat Daukayev School of Ballet’s The Nutcracker.
Mako Fujita - Sakaide-Shi, Kagawa-Ken, Japan
Trains at: The Rock School for Dance Education
Current Coach: Bojan and Stephanie Spassoff; The Rock School Faculty
Attended Summer Intensives of Royal Winnipeg Ballet and on scholarship to Pittsburgh
Ballet Theater and The Rock School for Dance Education. Featured as Clara in The Rock
School for Dance Education’s The Nutcracker.
Jasmine Getz - Chicago, Illinois, USA
Trains at: Faubourg School of Ballet
Current Coach: Watmora Casey, Tatyana Mazur, Ralitza lordanova
1st Place at IDO World Championships in Poland. Awarded scholarship to ARTSApplause Rising Star Showcase. Attended Summer Intensives of Joffrey Ballet (Chicago),
Bolshoi Ballet, and Ballet Chicago.
Amanda Rose Hall - Miami, Florida, USA
Trains at: Pembroke Ballet
Current Coach: Gypsy Hall
Grand Prix Award Winner at 2012 and 2013 American Dance Competition, World Ballet
Competition 2012 Introductory Bronze Medalist and 2014 Preparatory Bronze Medalist in
Orlando, Florida.
Jessica He - Rancho Cucamonga, California, USA
Trains at: The Rock School for Dance Education
Current Coach: Bojan and Stephanie Spassoff; The Rock School Faculty
2014 Pre-Professional Bronze Medalist at World Ballet Competition in Orlando. 1st Place
at 2015 YAGP Philadelphia Regional. Awarded full scholarship to Houston Ballet’s 2014
Summer Intensive.
Chloe Kelley - Newark, Delaware, USA
Pre-Professional
Category
Trains at: The Rock School for Dance Education
Current Coach: Bojan and Stephanie Spassoff; The Rock School Faculty
Featured as Marie in First State Ballet Theatre’s The Nutcracker. 3rd Place at 2014
YAGP Philadelphia Regional. Attended Summer Intensives on scholarship to Bolshoi
Ballet Academy and The Rock School for Dance Education.
Victoria Khaw - San Francisco, California, USA
Trains at: Westlake School for the Performing Arts (WSPA)
Current Coach: Malu Rivera-Peoples & Viktor Kabaniaev
Overall 1st Place Ensemble en pointe at 2015 YAGP San Francisco Regional. Platinum
Contemporary Solo at 2014 New York City Dance Alliance’s Finals. Featured as Clara in
WSPA’s The Nutcracker.
Abigail Kurdin - Springboro, Ohio, USA
Trains at: The Rock School for Dance Education Current Coach: Bojan and Stephanie Spassoff; The Rock School Faculty Attended Summer Intensives of Pacific Northwest Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, and
on scholarship to IBStage Ballet Program and Houston Ballet Academy. Top 12 at YAGP
Regionals 2012-10.
Cassandra Renee LeRette - Casselberry, Florida, USA
Trains at: Ballet Academy of Central Florida
Current Coach: Vladimir Bykov and Dawhone Perry
Featured as Maria and Butterfly in the Central Florida Ballet’s The Nutcracker. Finalist at
World Ballet Competition 2011 in Orlando.
Jade Mariscal - Panamá, Panama
Trains at: Academia de Danzas Steps
Current Coach: Tania Ashkenazi, Analida Galindo, Patricia Orillac,
Isabelita lewis
Attended Summer Intensives of Irina Dvorovenko & Maxim Beloserkovsky 2013-15 in
Panama. Awarded Gold Medal at the 2014 Dance Awards in New York and 2014 Danza
Activa in Panama.
Perry Elizabeth Meadors - Columbia, South Carolina, USA
Trains at: Pavlovich Ballet School
Current Coach: Radenko Pavlovich
Trainee with Columbia Classical Ballet. Attended Summer Intensive of Ellison Ballet on
scholarship and the Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington, D.C.
Tatiana Melendez - Tampa, Florida, USA
Trains at: All America Classical Ballet School
Current Coach: Julio Montano and Gissell Durand
2013 Preparatory Gold Medalist and 2011 Introductory Gold Medalist at World Ballet
Competition in Orlando. Awarded full scholarships to Tulsa Ballet, Festival Ballet
Providence, Orlando Ballet, and Joffrey Ballet NY.
Juliana Elizabeth Missano - Lloyd Harbor NY USA
Trains at: The Rock School for Dance Education
Current Coach: Bojan & Stephanie Spassoff, The Rock School Faculty
Attended Summer Intensives of Miami City Ballet on scholarship, Pacific Northwest Ballet,
and Houston Ballet. Gold and Silver Medalist at Long Island Ballet Competition.
Awarded scholarships to American Ballet Theatre NYC, Jose Carreno Dance Festival,
and Bolshoi Ballet Academy (also invited to train in Moscow). Recipient of 2015 Promise
Award at Music Center’s Spotlight Competition.
Michelle Motta - Panama City, Republic of Panama
Trains at: Academia de Danzas Steps
Current Coach: Patricia Orillac, Isabelita Lewis, STEPS Team
Silver Medalist in Introductory Category at 2009 World Ballet Competition in Orlando.
Awarded 2nd and 3rd Place at 2011 Dance Educator of America.
Ida Obediente - Panama City, Republic of Panama
Trains at: Academia de Danzas Steps
Current Coach: Isabelita Lewis, Tania Ashkenazi, Analida Galindo,
Pre-Professional
Category
Jolie Alexis Moray - Beverly Hills, California, USA
Trains at: Independent
Current Coach: Alla Khaniashvili
Patricia Orillac
3rd Place at 2011 American Ballet Competition. Best Stage Presence Award and 2nd
Place at Danza Activa in Panama. Attended Summer Intensive of Irina Dvorovenko and
Maxim Beloserkovsky in Panamá.
Soyoun Park - Seoul, South Korea
Trains at: SH Ballet Academy
Current Coach: Sun Hyung Yoon
Silver Medalist at 2013 Seoul Grand Prix Ballet Competition. Bronze Medalist at
2014 Sangmyung University Ballet Competition. Honor Prize at 2013 World
Association for Arts Exchange Organization Competition.
Callie MacQueen Pierpoint - Panama City, Republic of Panama
Trains at: Academia de Danza Steps, Panama
Current Coach: Isabelita Lewis
Awarded full scholarship for Dance Theatre USA “Company Dancer” and Stars of the 21st
Century 2014. “Best Hands Award” and 3rd Place Overall at Dance Educators of America
2011.
Jillian Price - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Trains at: The Rock School for Dance Education
Current Coach: Bojan and Stephanie Spassoff; The Rock School Faculty
Awarded scholarships to Summer Intensives of San Francisco Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet
Theater, School of American Ballet, Orlando Ballet, and North Carolina Dance Theater.
1st Place Classical at YAGP Hartfort Regional.
João Pedro Palmieri Ramos - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Trains at: Balletarrj Escola de Dança
Current Coach: Ana Palmieri and Romulo Ramos
Silver Medalist at Danzamerica in Córdoba, Argentina and awards at many national
festivals. Competed at 2014 World Ballet Competition in Orlando. Attended Summer
Intensive of 2014 American Academy of Ballet.
Ashleigh Richardson - Ogden, Utah, USA
Trains at: The Rock School for Dance Education
Current Coach: Bojan and Stephanie Spassoff; The Rock School Faculty
Attended Summer Intensives on scholarship to Royal Danish Ballet School and
the Bournonville Academy in France. Awarded 2nd Place at 2014 American Ballet
Competition.
Allison D’Marys Robles - Pembroke Pines, Florida, USA
Pre-Professional
Category
Trains at: The Art of Classical Ballet
Current Coach: Magaly Suarez
National Training Scholar with American Ballet Theater 2012-13. Awarded scholarships
to the Carreno Festival and International Ballet Intensive. Trained in master classes at
Institute del Teatro in Barcelona.
Manuela Roçado - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Trains at: Balletarrj Escola de Dança
Current Coach: Ana Palmieri and Romulo Ramos
Preparatory Bronze Medalist at 2013 World Ballet Competition in Orlando and featured in
WBC All Stars of Dance gala. Awarded 1st Place at the Festival Internacional de Dança
in Goiás, Brazil.
Letícia Rodrigues - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Trains at:Balletarrj Escola de Dança
Current Coach: Ana Palmieri and Romulo Ramos
Competed at 2013 World Ballet Competition in Orlando and 2012 Boston International
Ballet Competition. Two time scholarship recipient for the American Academy of Ballet.
1st Place Ensemble at YAGP.
Marlon Sales - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Trains at: Balletarrj Escola de Dança
Current Coach: Ana Palmieri and Romulo Ramos
Performed in Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro’s The Nutcracker and in Le Corsaire.
1st Place Ensemble at 2014 YAGP. Attended American Academy of Ballet on full
scholarship.
Hanna Sepulveda - Panama, Republic of Panama
Trains at: Academia de Danzas Steps
Current Coach: Isabellita Lewis
Awarded scholarships to Summer Intensives of Royal Ballet School (UK), Washington
Ballet School, Dance Open in Russia, Joffrey Ballet School and year round trainee
program. 2nd Place at Dance Educators of America in Panama.
Julia-Rose McGrath Sherrill - Oakland, California, USA
Trains at: The Rock School For Dance Education
Current Coach: Bojan and Stephanie Spassoff; The Rock School Faculty
2nd Place Classical at 2015 YAGP San Francisco Regional. Attended Summer
Intensives of American Ballet Theater in California and The Rock School for Dance
Education on scholarship.
McKenna Elizabeth Sing - Glen Mills, Pennsylvania, USA
Trains at: The Academy of International Ballet
Current Coach: Anastasia Babayeva, Denis Gronostayskiy
2nd Place Contemporary at 2015 YAGP Regional. 1st Place Classical at 2013 American
Ballet Competition. Awarded Summer Intensive scholarships to Boston
Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet Academy, Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington, D.C.
Ricako Suzuki - San Antonio, Texas, USA
Trains At: Saint Mary`s Hall School
Current Coach: Vanessa Bessler
Pre-Professional
Category
Attended Summer Intensive of Saint Mary`s Hall School. Received training through
various workshops from Marek Cholewa, Elena Kunikova, Dimitry Tuboltzev, Inna
Stabrova and Alexei Moskalenko.
Zecharie Tan - Singapore, Singapore
Trains at: Cheng Ballet Academy
Current Coach: Hsienfa Cheng & Yaling Tan
3rd Place Contemporary at 2015 NBA Junior Ballet Competition Tokyo. 1st Place
Contemporary at 2013 American Ballet Competition. Awarded Scholarship to 2013 Asian
Grand Prix Summer Intensive Program.
Alyssa Brianne Viray - South San Francisco, California, USA
Trains At: Westlake School for the Performing Arts
Current Coach: Viktor Kabanaiev
2014 NYCDA National Scholarship Winner and Regional Outstanding Dancer RunnerUp. Featured as Clara and Snow Queen in Westlake School for the Performing Arts’ The
Nutcracker.
Eliana Vogel - Westlake, California, USA
Current Coach: Peter Stark, Ivonne Lemus, Tatiana Cater, Giselle Guillem
Trains at: Next Generation Ballet
3rd Place Classical at 2015 YAGP Boston Regional. 2nd Place Contemporary at 2015
American Dance Competition. Attended Summer Intensives of San Francisco Ballet, ABT
New York, and Bolshoi Ballet Academy.
Bryn Elizabeth Warren - Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Trains at: The Rock School for Dance Education
Current Coach: Bojan and Stephanie Spassoff; The Rock School Faculty
Attended Summer Intensives of Pacific Northwest Ballet on scholarship, American Ballet
Theatre NYC, School of American Ballet, Kaatsbaan Intensive and Alabama Ballet on
scholarship. Top 12 at 2014 YAGP Regional.
Maya Quyen Wheeler - Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, USA
Trains at: The Rock School for Dance Education
Current Coach: Bojan and Stephanie Spassoff; The Rock School Faculty
Youth Grand Prix Award at 2014 & 2015 YAGP Philadelphia Regional. Final 20 Junior
Women at 2014 YAGP NY Finals. Attended Summer Intensives on scholarship to San
Francisco Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and Boston Ballet.
Nations Martin Wilkes-Davis
Columbia, South Carolina, USA
Trains at: Pavlovich Ballet School
Current Coach: Radenko Pavlovich and Oleksandr Vykhrest
2nd place in Student Division at 2013 Valentina Kozlova International Ballet Competition.
Awarded scholarships to Houston Ballet and Rock School for Dance Education. Featured
as Cavalier in Columbia Classical Ballet’s The Nutcracker
Professional
Category
Sabrina Yue-Yan Yap - Cupertino, California, USA
Trains at: Westlake School for the Performing Arts
Current Coach: Viktor Kabaniaev
1st Place at 2015 YAGP San Francisco Regional. Awarded scholarships to Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington D.C., Ellison Ballet,
Bolshoi Ballet Academy and invited to study year round at Bolshoi Ballet
Academy of Moscow
Sylvia Yijun Zhu - Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Trains At: Tulsa Ballet Center for Dance Education
Current Coach: Pia Russo
Attended Summer Intensives of Tulsa Ballet’s Pointe to the Future on
scholarship for two years and the Princeton Ballet School.
Abenanty, John
Conefrey, Aeden
Downer, Zachary
Guo, Wenyu
Akiyama, Sayaka
Capongcol, Rudolph
Carvalho, Davi
Dames, Jasmine
Dames, Jessica
Degnan, Julie
Fujishima, Kota
Galdino, Ruan
Gu, Jinchang
Homma, Toshiki
Jin, SeHyun
Hernandez, Kevin
Professional
Category
Klismann, Jhony
Liu Man Ting, Janis
Maezawa, Rei
Mochizuki, Risa
Morgenstern, Alana
Morioka, Saori
Pelegrin, Sean
Sato, Ayami
Stratton, Emma
Takada, Hibiki
Winders, Zane
Yagi, Kazuki
Yasui, Yuma
John Michael Abenanty - Brooklyn, New York, USA
Currently: Company Member of Columbia Classical Ballet
Current Coach: Radenko Pavlovich
Recipient of Dance Study Award for Ballet, Jazz and Modern from the Harid
Conservatory. Repertoire includes Conrad in Le Corsaire; Cavalier, Rat King, Arabian in
The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Etudes, and La Bayadere.
Sayaka Akiyama - Hiroshima, Japan
Currently: Company Member of Columbia Classical Ballet
Current Coach: Radenko Pavlovich, Zoltan Boros, and Takashi Yamamoto
Previous training from Masako Todo Ballet Academy and Joffrey Ballet School in NYC.
Competed at the All Japan Ballet Union Competition and the NBA Ballet Competition in
2014.
Rudolph Onato Capongcol - Manila, Philippines
Trains at: Steps Dance Studio
Current Coach: Jeffrey Floyd Espejo
1st Place Pas de Deux and 2nd Place Soloist at 2013 Asian Grand Prix in Hong Kong.
Award full scholarship to Steps Dance Studio from 2002 - 2015. Performed at the
Macau International Dance Festival in China in 2014.
Davi Chagas Carvalho - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Professional
Category
Trains at: Balletarrj Escola de Dança
Current Coach: Ana Palmieri and Romulo Ramos
2014 and 2013 Pas de Deux Silver Medalist at World Ballet Competition in Orlando.
Competed at the 2012 Prix de Lausanne and selected for the International Festival of
Dance Beijing. 1st Place Ensemble at 2014 YAGP.
Aeden William Conefrey - Edmonds, Washington, USA
Trains at: The Rock School for Dance Education
Current Coach: Sebastien Riou; The Rock School Faculty
Awarded scholarships to Summer Intensives of Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School, The
Rock School for Dance Education, and San Francisco Ballet School. 2nd Place at YAGP
Philadelphia Regional.
Jasmine Pia Angelia Dames - Manila, Philippines
Trains at: Steps Dance Studio
Current Coach: Jeffrey Floyd Espejo
2nd Place at 2014 Asian Grand Prix in Hong Kong. 1st Place Pas de Deux at 2013
Asian Grand Prix in Hong Kong. Awarded full scholarship to Steps Dance Studio from
2012-15.
Jessica Pearl Angelia Dames - Manila, Philippines
Trains at: Steps Dance Studio
Current Coach: Jeffrey Floyd Espejo
Awarded full scholarship to Steps Dance Studio from 2012-15. 6th Place Soloist at 2013
Asian Grand Prix in Hong Kong and 4th Place Soloist in 2014.
Julie Johanna Degnan - Kingston, Pennsylvania, USA
Trains at: The University of the Arts and The Pennsylvania Ballet
Current Coach: Kristin Degnan-Boonin
Currently pursuing a BFA with the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA. Attended
Summer Intensives of American Ballet Theatre, Performing Arts Institute, Pennsylvania
Ballet, and Boston Ballet.
Zachary George Downer - Paterson, New Jersey, USA
Trains at: The Rock School for Dance Education
Current Coach: Bojan and Stephanie Spassoff; The Rock School Faculty
YoungArts 2015 Merit Winner. 1st Place Pas de Deux at 2015 YAGP Regional. Recipient
of Mary Day Award at 2014 YAGP NY Finals. 1st Place Classical and Contemporary at
2014 YAGP Philadelphia Regional.
Kota Fujishima - Kagawa, Japan
Currently: Principal Dancer of Columbia Classical Ballet
Current Coach: Radenko Pavlovich
Professional Bronze Medalist at 2014 World Ballet Competition in Orlando. Silver
Medalist at 2013 Valentina Kozlova International Ballet Competition. 2014 USA
International Ballet Competition Finalist.
Ruan Galdino - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Trains at: Balletarrj Escola de Dança
Current Coach: Ana Palmieri and Romulo Ramos
Invited to attend the Alvin Ailey School on full scholarship and to join Dance Theatre
of Harlem’s professional program. Attended Summer Intensives of Orlando Ballet and
American Academy of Ballet on full scholarship in 2014.
Jinchang Gu - Hunan, China
Professional
Category
Trains at: The Rock School for Dance Education
Current Coach: Bojan and Stephanie Spassoff; The Rock School Faculty
Pre-Professional Silver Medalist at 2014 World Ballet Competition Orlando. Grand Prix
Award Winner at 2014 & 2015 YAGP Philadelphia. Featured as Snow Prince and
Russian Lead in Rock School for Dance Education’s The Nutcracker.
Wenyu Guo - China
Trains at: The Washington School Of Ballet
Current Coach: Kee Juan Han and Mimmo Miccolis
2nd Place at 2009 Osaka International Youngsters Ballet Competition, 3rd Place at the
2012 Korea International Ballet Competition. 2nd Place at YAGP Pittsburgh Regional in
both Classical and Pas de Deux.
Kevin Alexis Hernandez - Caracas, Venezuela
Currently: Soloist with Ballet Teresa Carreno
Current Coach: Susan Bello
1st Place at 2012 Competencia Internacional de Ballet Clasico. Awarded for The 2014
Joffrey Ballet Concert Group. Attended Summer Intensives of Catedra de Danza and
Ballet Nacional de Cuba.
Toshiki Homma - Hokkaido, Japan
Currently: Company Member of Columbia Classical Ballet
Current Coach: Radenko Pavlovich
1st Place at the 4th Association of Japanese Ballet Competition. Awarded scholarship to
the Pittsburgh Ballet Theater School at the Japanese Grand Prix. Silver Medalist at the
Hokkaido Ballet Competition.
SeHyun Jin - Busan, South Korea
Currently: Company Member of Columbia Classical Ballet
Current Coach: Radenko Pavlovich
3rd place at 2011 Korea International Ballet Competition. Finalist at 2011 Seoul
International Dance Competition. Recipient of Merit Award at The National Society of Arts
and Letters in the Kennedy Center.
Jhony Klismann - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Trains at: Balletarrj Escola de Dança
Current Coach: Ana Palmieri and Romulo Ramos
Soloist at Balletarrj Youth Company. Best dancer at Fendafor - Fortaleza/Brazil from
2011-14, 1st Place at Passo de Arte. Awarded 2015 full scholarship to American
Academy of Ballet.
Janis Liu Man Ting - SARS, Hong Kong
Currently: Soloist of Columbia Classical Ballet
Current Coach: Radenko Pavlovich and Oleksandr Vykhrest
3rd Place Pas de Deux at 2013 American Dance Competition. Awarded full scholarships
to Summer Intensives of Sarasota Ballet, Louisville Ballet, and
Carreno Festival. Best Female Dancer Award at Ye-Lei Cai IBC.
Rei Maezawa - Aichi, Japan
Trains at: The Rock School for Dance Education
Current Coach: Bojan and Stephanie Spassoff; The Rock School Faculty
Professional
Category
3rd Place Classical Soloist and 3rd Place Pas de Deux at 2014 YAGP Providence
Regional. Awarded full scholarship to The Rock School for Dance Education’s Summer
Intensive.
Risa Mochizuki - Tokyo, Japan
Currently: Company Member of New Jersey Ballet
Current Coach: N/A
Excellence Award at 2013 World Ballet Competition Open Romania. 2nd Place at 2007
Youth America Grand Prix New York Finals. Awarded full scholarship to Joffrey Ballet
School and previous training at Royal Ballet School of Antwerp.
Alana Morgenstern - Boca Raton, Florida, USA
Trains at: The Rock School for Dance Education
Current Coach: Bojan and Stephanie Spassoff; The Rock School Faculty
Bronze Medalist at 2013 American Dance Competition. Attended Summer Intensives of
Pacific Northwest Ballet on scholarship, San Francisco Ballet, and Central Pennsylvania
Youth Ballet.
Saori Morioka - Nara, Japan
Currently: Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida
Current Coach: Vladimir Issaev and Emily Tedesco
Finalist at 2010 Sendai Competition. Attended Summer Intensive of Colorado Ballet
Summer and previous training at the School of Alberta Ballet.
Sean Kevin Loredo Pelegrin - Manila, Philippines
Trains at: Steps Dance Studio
Current Coach: Jeffrey Floyd Espejo
Semifinalist at 2013 Asian Grand Prix in Hong Kong. Awarded full scholarship to Steps
Dance Studio from 2002-2015. Attended Summer Intensive of The Royal Ballet School
in London.
Ayami Sato - Ryugasaki, Ibaraki, Japan
Trains at: The Rock School for Dance Education
Currently Coach: Bojan and Stephanie; The Rock School Facility
3rd Place Classical at 2013 YAGP Seattle Regional. Awarded scholarship to Victoria
Academy of Ballet (Canada)’s Pre-Professional program and attended intensives of
Peridance Capezio Center and NY Blue Print program.
Emma Catherine Stratton - Columbia, South Carolina
Currently: Company Member of Columbia Classical Ballet
Current Coach: Radenko Pavlovich
Repertoire includes Colorado Ballet’s Giselle, Ben Stevenson’s Cinderella, The
Nutcracker. Attended Summer Intensives of Harid Conservatory, Kirov Academy of Ballet
in Washington, D.C. and the University of South Carolina.
Hibiki Takada - Nagano, Japan
Currently: Company Member of Columbia Classical Ballet
Current Coach: Radenko Pavlovich
Attended the Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington, D.C. from 2012-2013. Joined the
Columbia Classical Ballet in 2013.
Zane Christopher Winders - Lubbock, Texas, USA
Currently: Ballet Arizona Studio Company
Current Coach: Carlos Valcárcel
Awarded Summer Intensives on scholarships to Ballet Lubbock, Kirov Academy of Ballet
in Washington, D.C., and School of Ballet Arizona. Recipient of Outstanding Senior
Award of Kirov Academy of Ballet’s Class of 2014.
Kazuki Yagi - Japan
Professional
Category
Currently: Company Member of Columbia Classical Ballet
Current Coach: Radenko Pavlovich
Previously attended Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington, D.C. under direction of
Makhateli Nikoloz and the Nomura Ballet School under direction of Keiko Nomura.
Yuma Yasui - Osaka, Japan
Currently: Member of Columbia Classical Ballet
Current Coach: Radenko Pavlovich
Previous training at Australian Ballet School on scholarship. Repertoire with Columbia
Classical Ballet includes Romeo and Juliet (Romeo, Benvolio); The Nutcracker (Rat
King, Snow King, Marzipan), and Swan Lake (Rothbart).
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Olivia Gusti, trainee with Ballet West Academy
Category
Araya, Iori
Maarraoui, Daniela
Suzuki, Ryo
Yeungi, Jason
Iori Araya - Tokyo, Japan
Currently: Dancer at New Jersey Ballet
Current Coach: N/A
Awarded Idemitsu Scholarship Prize at the 10th Asian Pacific International Ballet
Competition in 2005, Full Scholarship at The Australian Ballet School 2008-09, and a
Scholarship at the YAGP 2009.
Lorenna Calheiros - See Pre-Professional Category
Pas De Deux
Rudolph Onato Capongcol - See Professional Category
Davi Chagas Carvalho - See Professional Category
Jasmine Pia Angelia Dames - See Professional Category
Jessica Pearl Angelia Dames - See Professional Category
Daniela Maarraoui – Houston, Texas, USA
Trains at: City Ballet of Houston
Current Coach: Luis Fuente
Attend Summer Intensives of Joffrey San Antonio and Ballet West. Repertoire includes
Sugar Plum Fairy, Aurora, Snow Queen, Paquita (Etoile variation), and Grand Pas
Classique.
Sean Kevin Loredo Pelegrin - See Professional Category
Ryo Suzuki - Saitama, Japan
Currently: Dancer at New Jersey Ballet
Current Coach: N/A
Awarded 3rd Prize at Prix du Japon Educational Ballet Concourse in 2008. Awarded Full
Scholarship to English National Ballet School’s Summer Intensive at Japan Grand Prix
2007 and attended the Houston Ballet on scholarship from 2009-2011.
Jason Yeung – Houston, Texas, USA
Trains at: City Ballet of Houston
Current Coach: Luis Fuente
Recipient of Fred Lieberman Award for Excellence from The Harid Conservatory.
Repertoire includes Cavalier in The Nutcracker and Pas de Trois from Swan Lake with
the City Ballet of Houston.
Pompano Beach, Florida, USA
“Pas de Trois”
Balletarrj Escola de Danca
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Origem” and “Witches and Angels”
Ensemble
Category
The Art of Classical Ballet
Ballet Marcia Bueno
São Paulo, Brazil
“Empire of Tang” and “Memories of a Geisha”
The Rock School for Dance Education
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
“Divergence”
Guest Artist
2015 WBC
Xiomara Reyes (Cuba)
American Ballet Theater
Born in Cuba, Xiomara Reyes studied at Cuba’s National Ballet
School. Upon her graduation, she danced as a soloist with
La Joven Guardia, the second company of Cuba’s National
Ballet. Two years later she was invited to appear with the Royal
Ballet of Flanders in Belgium. She danced with this company
for seven years rising to the rank of First Soloist. With the
Royal Ballet of Flanders, she also danced in Europe, Asia, and
the United States. She has danced as a guest in France with the Jeune Ballet de France,
in Italy with Balleto Del Sud, in Greece with the Nafsika Dance Theater, in Korea at the
International Dance Festival and in Russia with the Bashkirian State Ballet. Her awards
include: the Gold Medal for the Best Soloist at the International Ballet Competition of
Chiclayo, Peru (1996), Best Couple Prize at the XIV International Ballet Competition in
Varna, Bulgaria (1990), Silver Medal at the Cinquienne Concours International de Danse
de Paris (1992), and Second Prize at the International Ballet Competition in Luxembourg
(1995). Reyes joined American Ballet Theatre as a Soloist in January 2001 and was
appointed to Principal in April 2003. Her roles with the Company include a leading role in
Allegro Brillante, Cinderella in Frederick Ashton’s Cinderella, Swanilda in Coppélia, Kitri
and Amour in Don Quixote, Manon in Manon, Clara and the Sugar Plum Fairy in Kevin
McKenzie’s The Nutcracker, Olga in Onegin, Raymonda in Raymonda, Juliet in Romeo
and Juliet (Romeo’s Farewell to Juliet), Princess Aurora and Princess Florine in The
Sleeping Beauty, Sylvia in Sylvia, and roles in Brief Fling, Duets, Études, The Garden of
Villandry, The Leaves Are Fading, Petite Mort, Piano Concerto #1 and Without Words
among many others.
Dinu Tamazlacaru (Moldova)
Berlin State Ballet
Born in Chisinau, Moldova, Mr. Tamazlacaru graduated from the
National Ballet School in 2000 and the Vienna Ballet Conservatory
in 2002. He joined the ballet company of Unter den Linden Theatre
in Berlin in 2000 and joined the Berlin State Ballet in 2004. His
repertory includes principal roles in classical and contemporary
ballets, including Swan Lake, Don Quixote, Tchaikovsky, Onegin,
The Nutcracker, Coppelia, La Sylphide, Ballet Imperial, Herman
Schmerman, among many others. Dinu Tamazlacaru is a guest
principal with Teatro Comunale (Florence), Teatro Arcimboldi (Milan), Rome Opera,
Tokyo Ballet, the Tatar National Opera, the Romanian National Opera, the Croatian
National Opera, the Slovak National Theatre.
Jonathan Batista (Brazil)
2015 WBC
Guest
Boston Ballet
Photo by Liza Voll Photography, Courtesy of Boston Ballet
Batista trained at the English National Ballet School and
with them he performed numerous Principal and leading
roles in Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s, George Balanchine and
Sir Frederick Ashton Ballets and also has been coached
by one of the greatest dancers such as Cynthia Harvey,
Michael Coleman, David Wall and Anya Evans. In 2013,
he won the Silver Medal at The World Ballet Competition
in Orlando, Florida after which Batista joined Boston Ballet for the 2013-2014 season.
His repertoire includes Principal and Soloist works such as: Golden Idol for Florence
Clerc’s La Bayadere; Pastorale Pas de Trois in Mikko Nissinen’s production of The
Nutcracker; The Principal Role in Harald Lander’s Etudes; Emerald’s pas de trois
in George Balanchine’s Jewels, Pas de Cinq and Neapolitan pas de deux in Mikko
Nissinen’s production of Swan Lake, and The Principal Role of Saint Gauden for Val
Caniparoli’s Lady of The Camellias. Batista has made Guest appearance in Galas in
Argentina, Brazil, Europe and North America, he will now, join Cincinnati Ballet as a
Soloist for the 2015-2016 season.
Anaïs Chalendard (France)
Boston Ballet
Chalendard joined the English National Ballet in 2008 where she
was promoted to first soloist following performances in Manon and
The Dying Swan. She has also appeared in performances organized
by Carlos Acosta dancing a pas de deux (Young Apollo) especially
created for her and Junor de Oliveira Souza by choreographer Adam
Hougland. In 2009, she received the “Emerging Dancer Award”
after dancing Nikiya’s Death from La Bayadère. Her repertoire
includes Angelin Preljocaj’s Annonciation (Maria), Peter Wright’s Giselle, Marius
Petipa’s Paquita, George Balanchine’s Tarantella, Tchaikovsky pas de deux, and
Apollo (Polyhymnia, Calliope), Kenneth Macmillan’s Romeo and Juliet (Juliet),
Rudolf Nureyev’s Romeo and Juliet; Wayne Eagling’s The Nutcracker, Christopher
Wheeldon’s Swan Lake (Odette/Odile), Roland Petit’s Carmen (Carmen), and Le
Jeune Homme et La Mort. Anais is a first soloist with Boston Ballet.
Norton Fantinel (Brazil)
Tulsa Ballet
Born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Norton trained at the School
of Ballet Vera Bublitz, the School of Ballet Bolshoi in
Brazil and the School of The Washington Ballet. Following
graduation, Norton joined The Washington Ballet where he
later became a Soloist. Norton was previously a Princial
Dancer at the Sao Paulo Companhia de Danca. His
repertory includes Principal roles in Don Quixote by Anne
Marie Holmes, Grand Pas de deux Diana e Acteon by
Agripina Vaganova, James and Gurn in La Sylphide by August Bournonville, Green
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August Bournonville, Green Boy in Celts by Lila York, Rubies, Tchaikovsky Pas de
Deux, Theme and Variations and Serenade by George Balanchine, Russian and
Cavalier in The Nutcracker and Peter Pan in Peter Pan by Septime Webre, In The
Middle, Somewhat Elevated by Willian Forsythe, Six Dances by Jiri Kylian, Legend by
John Cranko, among others. Also, Norton has worked with Nacho Duato, Mark Morris,
Twyla Tharp, Edwaard Liang and Richard Cragun. Norton received many awards at
competitions such as The Youth America Grand Prix, World Ballet Competition, and
the Festival Internacional de Danca de Joinvil. He has also been invited to perform
as a Principal Guest Artist in companies and galas worldwide including “The Rudolf
Nureyev Gala” and YAGP “Gala Stars of Today Meet the Stars of Tomorrow”.
Karina Moreira (Brazil)
Tulsa Ballet
Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Karina trained at the School of
the Municipal Theatre of Rio de Janeiro Maria Olenewa and the
University of Music and Performing Arts in Mannheim, Germany.
Upon graduation, she joined Des Badisches Staatstheaters
Karlsruhe for a season before being recruited by Ballet Ireland.
Karina most recently has been dancing with the Sao Paulo
Companhia de Danca. Karina’s repertory includes Principal roles
in Legend by John Cranko, Bachiana N1 Pas de Deux by Rodrigo
Pederneiras, The Nutcracker by Tatiana Leskova and a Demi-Soloist role in Theme and
Variations by George Balanchine. She has won several competitions including the “Best
Dancer” given by Tatiana Leskova.
Miguel Anaya (Cuba)
The Washington Ballet
From Havana, Cuba, Miguel Anaya trained at the Alfonso Perez
Isaac School and National Ballet School of Cuba, where he
graduated in 2012. He was invited to the Varna International
Ballet Competition in 2010 and the YAGP in 2011. In 2012,
Anaya won the Grand Prix National Competition in Cuba, and
performed as a Soloist dancer with the National Ballet of Cuba
with Alicia Alonso. Anaya’s major roles include Basilio in Don
Quixote, King of the Snow, the Prince in The Nutcracker, Franz
in Coppélia, a principal in Flames of Paris. Anaya has also performed the Pas de Deux in
Grand pas Classique, Le Corsaire and The Nutcracker. As a guest artist, Anaya performed
the pas de deux from Paquita and Satanella at a Gala with Florida Classical Ballet in
2014. He has trained with Ramona de Saa, Marta Iris, Nor Maria, Ana Julia Bermudez,
Magaly Suarez, Alicia Alonso, Mst. Mida, Fernando Alonso and Alberto Mendez. Anaya
joined The Washington Ballet as a Company dancer for the 2014-15 Season.
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Maki Onuki (Japan)
Washington Ballet
Of Yokohama, Japan, Maki Onuki is in her 10th season with
The Washington Ballet after one season with The Studio
Company. Before joining TWB, Ms. Onuki danced with Goh
Ballet in Canada under Choo Chiat Goh and Lin Yee Goh.
She trained at John Cranko Ballet School under the direction
of Tadeusz Matacz, and at Mika Sasaki Ballet Academy under
Mika Sasaki and Mikio Ikehata. Additionally, she attended
Boston Ballet’s summer program on scholarship. Ms. Onuki
has performed in numerous classical ballets including Serenade, Don Quixote, Le Corsaire,
Diana and Acteon, Carnival of Venice, La Sylphide, Romeo + Juliet, the Esmeralda Pas
de deux, The Sleeping Beauty, Flames of Paris and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Ms.
Onuki has performed in contemporary works by Christopher Bruce, Edwaard Liang, Karole
Armitage, Mark Morris, Christopher Wheeldon, Twyla Tharp and Trey McIntyre. Ms. Onuki
has received numerous awards including the 2010 Bronze Medal at the International
Ballet Competition in Jackson, Mississippi and a MetroDC Dance Award for Outstanding
Individual Performance for Wunderland by Edwaard Liang in 2011.
Maria Clara Coelho (Brazil)
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School,
American Ballet Theatre
Of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Ms. Coelho trained at the Balletarrj
Escola de Danca under the direction of Ana Palmieri and
Romulo Romus. She has already won national and international
awards at prestigious ballet competitions among several “Best
Dancer” awards at various competitions in Brazil. Ms. Coelho
received the bronze and silver medal at the Boson International
Ballet Competition, and was a finalist for the Prix de Lausanne
in 2014 in Switzerland. In 2013, she was awarded the Gold Medal in the Pre-Professional
Category of the World Ballet Competition’s Annual Finals held in Orlando, Florida as well
as the Gold Medal in the Pas de Deux Category at the 2014 World Ballet Competition. Both
years she was featured in the World Ballet Competition’s All Stars of Dance gala receiving
great acclaim amongst the jury and audiences. In January of 2015 she began training at
American Ballet Theatre’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School in New York City.
Jorge Barani (Cuba)
Kentucky Ballet Theatre
Jorge Barani graduated from the National School of Arts in
Havana, Cuba in 2010. His professional career began at the
National Ballet of Cuba where he performed important roles
in ballets such as Fairy Doll, Romeo and Juliet, La Fille Mal
Gardée, Dracula and others. He joined Ballet de Monterrey
in 2012, and moved to the U.S. in 2013 to dance at Arts
Ballet Theatre of Florida. Mr. Barani was invited to perform with
the Royal Ballet in London. His international roles include Le
Corsaire pas de deux, Black Swan pas de deux, Don Quixote pas de deux and Flames
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Quixote pas de deux and Flames of Paris pas de deux, to mention a few. Mr. Barani
won the 2013 Gold Medal in the Professional Category at the World Ballet Competition
in Orlando. Mr. Barani just completed his first season at the Kentucky Ballet Theatre.
Andrew Brader (USA)
Complexions
Andrew Brader was born and raised in New Orleans, Lousiana,
and trained at the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts, The
Harid Conservatory, and the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School
at American Ballet Theatre. He was invited to join ABT as an
apprentice dancing with the company at The Metropolitan Opera
House and then joined the Houston Ballet. Andrew danced with
the Los Angeles Ballet for four seasons performing principal roles
in Balanchine’s Agon, The Four Temperaments, Stravinsky Violin
Concerto, Serenade, Kammermusik No.2, Lar Lubovitch’s The Evangelist, Bournonville’s
Napoli Pas de Six, and original works by Josie Walsh, Sonya Tayeh, Olivier Wevers,
and Melissa Barak’s Scrying presented as the first dance installation performed at NYC’s
Museum of Modern Art. Brader was a 2009 Lester Horton Award nominee for Outstanding
Achievement in Performance and spent two seasons with BalletMet Columbus before
joining Städtische Theater Chemnitz as a soloist in Chemnitz, Germany. Brader joined
Complexions in 2014.
Ashley Mayeux (USA)
Complexions
Ashley Mayeux was born and raised in Houston, Texas where
she attended the High School of the Performing and Visual Arts.
After high school she went on to receive her BFA with honors
in the dance conservatory at Suny Purchase College in May
2012. She has also trained with Dance Theatre of Harlem’s
Professional Training Program. In May 2012 she toured with
cast of the Broadway show Aida. Ashley joined Complexions
Contemporary Ballet in the 2012-13 Season.
Clifford Williams (USA)
Complexions
Clifford Williams began his dance training at F.H. LaGuardia
High School of Art and the Performing Arts. He attended
The Ailey School and The School of American Ballet, both on
scholarship. In 1998, he was a first-level recipient of a National
Foundation for Advancement in the Arts award and began study
at The Juilliard School. In 2001, he was invited to join Dance
Theatre of Harlem and in 2004, Mr. Williams joined Complexions
Contemporary Ballet (New York, NY). He has danced works
by Dwight Rhoden, William Forsythe, Nicolo Fonte and Jae Man Joo. Mr. Williams has
assisted Director/Choreographer Dwight Rhoden on numerous projects including ballets
for North Carolina Dance Theater, Pittsburgh Ballet, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet , The Diana
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Vishneva Project, Ballet San Jose, Israel Ballet, Teatro Dell’Opera Di Roma as well as
for the television show “So You Think You Can Dance.” He has also set Dwight Rhoden’s
works on schools such as The Ailey School/Fordham University, Boston Conservatory ,
Harvard University Marymount University and NYU Tisch School for the Arts. In 2008, Mr.
Williams joined Compañia Nacional De Danza as a Principal dancer under the Direction
of Nacho Duato. He rejoined Complexions in 2009 before being appointed to artist in
residence in 2012. He is also certified in teaching “Nique” the official Contemporary Ballet
technique of Complexions Contemporary Ballet. Mr. Williams was featured in Debbie Allen’s
“The Hot Chocolate Nutcracker” as the Title character which aired on BET Network in 2014.
He is also part of cast of the up coming Starz Network Mini-series “Flesh and Bone” due
to air later this year in 2015. Most recently Mr. Williams performed as Meyer Wolfsheim in
an international production of The Great Gatsby, Choreographed and Directed by Dwight
Rhoden.
Christye Alan (USA)
Metropolis Productions
Christye Alan began her dance training under Pat and Tanju
Tuzer at the Tuzer Dancecenter in Dallas, Texas. At 19, she
became a member of the Fort Worth/Dallas Ballet where she
performed from 1989-1993 under Paul Mejia and Suzanne
Farrel and then went on to join Ballet Dallas in 1994. Christye
left the ballet to sail around the world performing for several
high end cruise lines. From the seven seas, her talents then
took her to Las Vegas in 1996 where she performed in the
Siegfried and Roy Show. It was from here that she then became the Principal Dancer for
“Enter the Night” at the Stardust Hotel and Casino. In 2000, Christye moved to Orlando,
FL to perform in Disney’s show “Tarzan Rocks” at Disney’s Animal Kingdom. That same
year, she also joined the Central Florida Ballet and has remained to the present. Christye
is currently the Aerial Director for Metropolis Productions and Director of its school, Metro
Movement and Aerial Arts. Her newest and most prized role is “Mommy” to 3 year old twins,
Aidan and Ashton. Christye feels so blessed to still be performing with CFB
Stacy Burchfield (USA)
Metropolis Productions
Stacy is a professional aerialist currently based out of Orlando,
Florida. Stacy grew up dancing and tumbling in Oviedo, FL at
University Performing Arts Centre where she studied acrobatics,
jazz, ballet, lyrical, and tap. She danced competitively for 10 years
winning numerous regional and national awards. After receiving
her BS from Flagler College in Graphic Design, Stacy worked in
a corporate graphic design studio for two years. During the summer of 2010, Stacy was
introduced to the aerial arts and immediately began training at Metro Movement and Aerial
Arts under the instruction of Christye Alan. Stacy first started off training tissu and was later
introduced to aerial hoop. Stacy has professionally worked under Metropolis Productions, a
well-known entertainment production company in Orlando, FL. She has also worked with Q
Productions (Las Vegas, NV), Universal Studios (Orlando, FL), and Sea World (Orlando,
FL and San Diego, CA) to name a few. She also teaches aerial hoop and tissu classes at
Metro Movement and Aerial Arts.
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BALLET BRIO (Puerto Rico)
Artistic Director and Choreographer: Rodney Rivera
Ballet Brio has become a premier dance company in Puerto Rico and Latin America.
Company members have gone on to dance with major international companies including
the Martha Graham Company, New York City Ballet, Dance Theater of Harlem, Connecticut
Ballet and BalletMet Ohio. Rodney Rivera has mastered the fusion of different styles that
has given Brío their unique identity. Their passion and willingness to explore movement is
palpable in every performance.
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