Texas Ballet Theater

The Texas Ballet Theater was founded by Margo Dean in 1961 as the Fort Worth Ballet, in Fort Worth, Texas. It became a professional ballet company in 1985. In 1988 the company began adding performances in Dallas. It became the Fort Worth Dallas Ballet in 1994, then was renamed Texas Ballet Theater in 2003.^[1]

Texas Ballet Theater is a resident company of Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth and the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House at the AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas.^[2]

Contents 1 Artistic staff 2 Company dancers 2.1 Dancers 2.2 Apprentices 2.3 Trainees 3 References 4 External links

Artistic staff

As of May 2010:^[3]

Ben Stevenson, O.B.E. - Artistic Director Tim O'Keefe - Associate Artistic Director

Li Anlin - Assistant Artistic Director Anna Donovan - Principal Ballet Master

Company dancers

As of May 2010:^[4]

Dancers

Paul Adams Adam Boreland Robin Bangert Max Caro Katelyn Clenaghan Carl Coomer Heather Kotelenets Jaclyn Gill

Jennifer Hooper Kelly Kristen Irvine Carolyn Judson Lisa Kaczmarek Angela Kenny Thomas Kilps Alexander Kotelenets

Michelle LeBoeuf Lainey Logan Betsy McBride Leticia Oliveira Lucas Priolo Danny Ryan Victoria Simo

Philip Slocki Eddy Tovar Mark Troxler Joamanuel Velazquez Peter Zweifel Simon Wexler Havilah Sprunk

Apprentices

Dustin Geradine Paige Nyman

Andrew Hellerick Morgan Stinnett

Kaitlyn Potts

Drake Humphreys

Trainees

Julianna Bicki Ali Paige Block

Nicole Von Enck Amy Hollinger

Emma Pressman

Allisyn Hsieh

References

1. ^ "Evolution of TBT". Texas Ballet Theater. http://www.texasballettheater.org/index.php?q=abouttbt_evolution. Retrieved 6 May 2010. 
2. ^ "About TBT". Texas Ballet Theater. http://www.texasballettheater.org/index.php?q=abouttbt_about. Retrieved 6 May 2010. 
3. ^ "Artistic Staff". Texas Ballet Theater. http://www.texasballettheater.org/index.php?q=abouttbt_artisticstaff. Retrieved 6 May 2010. 
4. ^ "Company Dancers". Texas Ballet Theater. http://www.texasballettheater.org/index.php?q=abouttbt_company. Retrieved 6 May 2010. 

External links

• [http://www.texasballettheater.org/ Texas Ballet Theater website

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