Carolina Ballet
Carolina Ballet is a ballet company founded in 1997 which performs primarily in Raleigh, North Carolina and throughout the state. It has toured to New York City, Hungary and China. Robert Weiss, the artistic director, danced for George Balanchine for sixteen years at New York City Ballet and attained the rank of principal dancer. Lynne Taylor-Corbett is principal guest choreographer. One of Carolina Ballet's most popular performances, The Nutcracker, is performed annually. Carolina Ballet currently has about 35 dancers.
Notable productions
- Handel's Messiah, choreography by Robert Weiss, premiering in 1998
- Beethoven, Janáček, J. Mark Scearce The Kreutzer Sonata, based on the Tolstoy novella, 2000
- Carl Orff, Carmina Burana, choreography by Lynne Taylor-Corbett, first performed in 2001
- Poulenc, Debussy, Chausson Monet Impressions, 2006
- Paul Moravec, Tempest Fantasy, based on William Shakespeare's The Tempest, 2007
Dancers
Dancers of the Carolina Ballet, as of April 2010:[1]
Principals
First soloists
- Richard Krusch
- Marcelo Martinez
- Dameon Nagel
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- Hong Yang
- Lindsay Purrington
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Second soloists
- Eugene C. Barnes III
- Alicia Fabry
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- Randi Osetek
- Erica Sabatini
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- Nikolai Smirnov
- Yevgeny Shlapko
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Company
- Sean Armstrong
- Taisha Barton-Rowledge
- Oliver Beres
- Adam Chavis
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- Lola Cooper
- Ashley Hathaway
- Cecilia Iliesiu
- Zalman Grindberg
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- Malea Grubb
- Elice McKinley
- Sarah Newton
- Elizabeth Ousley
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- Sokvannara Sar
- Adam Schiffer
- Barbara Toth
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Trainees
- Ayla Weisz
- Carmen Felder
- George Sanders
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References
- ^ "Dancers". Carolina Ballet. http://www.carolinaballet.com/dancers.html. Retrieved 27 April 2010.
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