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A native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, she received her early training with June Runyon and danced with Tulsa Ballet Theatre. After graduation from Stanford University, Ms. Robertson performed and taught in New York, where she studied with Merce Cunningham, Douglas Wassell, and David Howard. She has taught ballet at Princeton University, New York University, and Mason Gross School of the Arts.
Ms. Robertson was a founding director of Teamwork Dance, and has received a Choreographic Fellowship from the NJSCA. Robertson choreographed numerous operas for Opera Festival of New Jersey including The Merry Widow, The Magic Flute, La Traviata, The Marriage of Figaro, Postcard from Morocco, and Orfeo ed Euridice. For Opera New Jersey, she has choreographed Roméo et Juliette, La Traviata, The Merry Widow, and Die Fledermaus.
She has also been a consultant for the New York State Council on the Arts and NJPAC’s Outreach Program. Ms. Robertson has been teaching at Princeton Ballet School since 1980, and became Director of the School in 1986. During these years she developed the syllabus with faculty input, inaugurated the Professional Training Program and PLUS programs, and oversaw the moves into the new Princeton and Cranbury studios. In March, 2007, the United States Congress cited Ms. Robertson for her twenty plus years of leadership of Princeton Ballet School, and for its evolution into “one of the most acclaimed (dance schools) in the country.” |
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Douglas Martin
Director ARB and ARB Workshop |
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Douglas Martin started his ballet training with Dimitri Romanoff at the San Jose Ballet School and was one of six dancers selected to study in the newly formed American Ballet Theatre School formed by Mikhail Baryshnikov. He was invited to join the Joffrey Ballet in 1984 where, as a principal dancer, he performed roles in ballets by Ashton, Arpino, Cranko, Balanchine, Joffrey, Taylor, Pendleton, Kudelka and many other great 20th century choreographers. Mr. Martin was featured in performances of Dance in America on PBS and was an original cast member of the historic recreation of Nijinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps. He was among the last dancers of the Joffrey Ballet to spend the majority of his career in the company working under founder Robert Joffrey.
Martin joined the Cleveland Ballet in 1991, and danced an array of principle roles including the Minister in Agnes deMille’s Fall River Legend. In 1993, Mr. Martin was invited to join the American Repertory Ballet. As leading dancer and Ballet Master for ARB, Mr. Martin collaborated with the directors in creating many ballets, including productions as the original cast lead in Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake, The Dream and The Nutcracker. Mr. Martin continued to be a principal dancer in the company as well as Ballet Master for ARB and ARBW and Principal Faculty for the PBS Summer Intensive until his retirement from performing in 2002.
After retiring from ARB, Mr. Martin expanded his teaching, production and choreographic work. Martin has been an integral part of the teaching staff at the Princeton Ballet School, Rutgers University and Westminster Choir College, and has also served as the School’s Music Director and ARBW Ballet Master. He has staged full length and repertory ballets for several companies, including Romeo and Juliet and Philip Jerry’s Our Town. Additionally, Mr. Martin has choreographed for several PBS productions, including the School’s Summer Intensive program. |
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Christine Chen
Managing Director |
Christine Chen comes to American Repertory Ballet after a career in the dance world as a performer, choreographer, journalist, educator and manager. She received her early dance training at Princeton Ballet School, and was a member of the school’s preprofessional division. As an undergraduate at Princeton University, Christine turned her focus to contemporary dance while earning a degree in Sociology. Christine earned an MFA in dance at the Ohio State University, then began her professional career in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she danced with AXIS Dance Company, Flyaway Productions, Dandelion Dance Theater, Paufve Dance and other independent choreographers. Christine moved back east to join STREB, an “extreme action” company based in New York. With STREB, Christine toured nationally and internationally, performed on Late Night with David Letterman, was featured in Cirque du Soleil’s production of Midnight Sun, and appeared in an international ad campaign for Puma. While performing, Christine honed her arts management skills as Programs Manager at STREB and Development and Communications Manager at Flyaway Productions. After retiring from performing, Christine decided to direct her full energies towards arts management. She earned her MBA at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management and originally joined ARB as Director of Marketing for the organization. She was appointed to the position of Managing Director in 2010 and looks forward to helping the organization continue and approve its legacy of excellence. |
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SHERRY ALBAN (Children’s Rehearsal Director) has taught at Princeton Ballet School since 1973. She has choreographed several ballets for PBII (now known as ARB Workshop), and served for many years as Rehearsal Director for Act I of The Nutcracker, a role we are happy to welcome her back to. In 2004, Ms. Alban staged Audrée Estey’s Act 1 children’s dances for Nutcracker for Washington Ballet. Ms. Alban has been a recipient of a New Jersey State Council on the Arts Choreography Fellowship and has directed and choreographed numerous musicals for Plays in the Park of Edison, NJ; Rutgers Opera; and NJPAC. She also teaches ballet at Mason Gross School of the Arts, at Rutgers University. Ms. Alban’s ebullient choreography for children has been a part of nearly every school show produced in the past 25 years. |
| CAROL BELLIS (Principal, Cranbury Studio, Ballet) received her training on scholarship at the School of American Ballet, official school of the New York City Ballet. She danced with the Garden State Ballet and has taught for Garden State Ballet School, Gloria Govrin’s New Hope Ballet Academy, and the School of Performing Arts at Somerset Vo-Tech. She has been teaching here for over 20 years, and is the principal of the Cranbury studio and the Director of Princeton Ballet School summer programs. |
| LISA de RAVEL (Dean of Students, Alumni Relations Coordinator) received her training at North Carolina School of the Arts, the School of American Ballet, and Boston Ballet School, During her professional dance career, she also studied in New York with Finis Jhung, David Howard, and Maggie Black. She joined American Repertory Ballet in 1988, and danced under the direction of Dermot Burke in ballets by Ailey, Arpino, Balanchine, Bournonville, Limón, Tudor, Taylor, Burke, Webre, and others. From 1989-2006 she taught and choreographed for Princeton Ballet School, including coodinating the Cranbury summer program, now called Summer Intensive Intermediates. She has been a recipient of the Audree Estey Award for Excellence in Dance Education, and has also been inducted into Princeton Ballet School Wall of Fame. She is the organization’s Alumni Relations Coordinator, and also faculty liaison for the Junior Gala. Ms. de Ravel received her B.A. in Psychology, specializing in child and adolescent development, from Rutgers, The State University, in 2010. She was a Phi Beta Kappa scholar and a member of Psi Chi psychology honor society. |
| MARIA YOUSKEVITCH (ARB Workshop Ballet Mistress, Ballet) the daughter of legendary ballet star Igor Youskevitch, was a soloist with American Ballet Theatre and Maryland Ballet, and ballerina with Youskevitch’s concert group, Ballet Romantique. She was company teacher, rehearsal assistant and senior faculty member at Hartford Ballet under the Artistic Direction of Kirk Peterson. She has been ballet mistress for BalletMet, Nevada Dance Theatre, and coach for the New York International Ballet Competition. In addition, Ms. Youskevitch has taught at such prestigious schools as the David Howard Dance Center, Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, Virginia School of the Arts under the direction Petrus Bosman, The Houston Ballet's Ben Stevenson Academy, and The Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at American Ballet Theatre.
A celebrated teacher and coach for over 30 years, she was featured in the June 2002 issue of “Dance Teacher” magazine. Well versed in the classical ballet repertoire, she has mounted versions of Giselle, Coppélia, La Fille Mal Gardee, and her father’s one-act Romeo and Juliet. She has also staged Michel Fokine’s Spectre de la Rose and Les Sylphides, and the children’s roles in Kirk Peterson’s Nutcracker. Ms. Youskevitch is also on faculty for ABT’s Young Dancer Summer Workshop in Manhattan, and is an ABTTM Certified Teacher, having completed the ABTTM National Training Curriculum. |
| LAURIE ABRAMSON (Ballet) received her training at the Joffrey Ballet School and holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from New York University. She has also studied with Alfredo Corvino, David Howard and at The New Dance Group. In addition to her work at Princeton Ballet School, Ms. Abramson is a member of the ballet faculty at the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University, and also at Montclair State University. Additional teaching credits include Stuart Country Day School, Mason Gross School of the Arts (Rutgers University), Southern NJ Academy of the Performing Arts, Acrodanse Theatre Company and master classes at The American College Dance Festival. She has served as a dance evaluator for the NJ State Council on the Arts and helped construct and implement the exit exams for the performing arts schools throughout the state for the NJ Dept. of Education, Visual and Performing Arts. Choreographic projects include works for PBII (now known as ARB Workshop), Acrodanse Theatre Company and musical theatre work. She has been the recipient of an arts-in-education grant from the NJ State Council on the Arts. She has been teaching here since 1981. |
| MARY BARTON (Ballet) received her training at the Washington School of Ballet and participated in summer courses at SAB and Joffrey Ballet School. Her professional experience began at Washington Ballet, dancing soloist and principal roles with the company while still a student. At age 18, she was invited to dance with Oldenburg Statt Ballet in Germany, as a Principal Guest Artist. After performing in Europe, she returned to the US and joined Dayton Ballet as a principal dancer. In 1986, Ms. Barton joined the Joffrey Ballet. She was chosen by Robert Joffrey for the role of Clara in the world premiere of his new Nutcracker. While in the Joffrey Ballet, she performed a wide variety of roles in their extensive repertory. Ms. Barton danced as a principal dancer with American Repertory Ballet from 1993-2004. Some notable roles include Sugar Plum Fairy, Cinderella, Titania, Emily in Our Town, and leading roles in Balanchine’s Serenade, Rubies, and Concerto Barocco. While under the direction of Septime Webre, she performed the role of Odette/Odile in Swan Lake, and Juliet in his Romeo and Juliet. Ms. Barton has been on the faculty of Princeton Ballet School since 1993, and is one of the primary teachers of the Summer Intensive. She is also a member of the ballet faculty at the Lewis Center of the Arts at Princeton University, and in the Musical Theater program at Rider University. She is listed in the “Who’s Who of American Teachers.” As a director, she has helped restage Romeo and Juliet and Our Town on other companies around the US. Her choreography has been presented by Rider University, The Outlet, Teamwork Dance, and Princeton University Ballet, as well as the annual school productions of Princeton Ballet School. |
| JANELL BYRNE (Ballet) a native of California, studied with Stanley Holden and Margaret Hills in Los Angeles. A graduate of the Juilliard School, where she studied with Alfredo Corvino, Ms. Byrne has taught at Mercer County Community College, Princeton University, The College of New Jersey, and the Lawrenceville School. She has performed with DanceWorks and Teamwork Dance and is Director of Mercer Dance Ensemble, and has been teaching here for over 20 years. |
| ALMA CONCEPCION (Spanish dance, Ballet) is a former soloist with the San Juan Ballet and Antonio's Ballet of Spain. After receiving her early training in Puerto Rico, she came to study in New York at the School of American Ballet and at American Ballet Theatre. Ms. Concepcion is the founder of Taller de Danza, a children’s movement and dance grassroots organization based in Trenton. She has been teaching here for over 20 years and has also taught at Ballet Hispanico in New York for many years. She is a member of the Society of Dance History Scholars and has written many articles, mainly on Caribbean music and dance. |
| ANGELA CUSUMANO (Hip Hop) started dancing at the age of five in Brooklyn, NY, and has also studied at Broadway Dance Center, Princeton Ballet School, Steps on Broadway, and Icon Dance Complex, where she is currently a faculty member. Theater credits include: The King and I, Cabaret, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Sweet Charity, Crazy for You and West Side Story. More recently, Ms. Cusumano was a member of the “alternative jazz” based company, Push Factor Dance Company in Astoria, NY, as well as the hip hop instructor of Push Factor’s National Convention. She is currently a member of ICON’s Hip Hop Pro Company, and also teaches hip hop for ARB’s DANCE POWER 2 after school program. |
GEOFFREY DOIG-MARX ( Jazz/Theater Dance) is the Artistic Director and Founder of “The Mantis Project” Dance Company, and Creator/Artistic Director of “The Elan Awards” an annual showcase that presents the work of 14 choreographers and honors a choreographer who has paved the way. Past honorees of The Elan Awards include Graciella Daniele, Jerry Mitchell, Ann Reinking, Rob Marshall, Lar Lubovitch and Susan Stroman. Recently, he received a Certificate of Excellence in Cultural Achievement from C. Virginia Fields, Manhattan Borough President, office of the Mayor of New York City, for his work with The Elan Awards. He is currently a part of the dance faculty at Marymount Manhattan College, Dance Emotion, The Lawrenceville School and The Pulse. National and Regional credits include: Pippin, A Chorus Line, West Side Story, Jesus Christ Superstar, La Cage aux Folles and many others. Dance Spirit Magazine named him “one of ‘nine dancemakers making history” … 2001 cover story. www.themantisproject.org. Geoffrey is the former Director of Arias Dance NYC. |
JENNIFER GLADNEY (Hand in Hand, Beginning Dance, Ballet) is a graduate of Princeton Ballet School, having attended our Professional Training Program throughout high school and having been a part of a trainee program ARB Ensemble (’99-’00). During those years, she also attended Steps on Broadway and Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet programs. She danced for many companies as a freelance dancer after high school performing many ballerina roles such as Aurora, Sugar Plum Fairy and Cinderella. Recent performance work includes being a dancer and choreographer with Mercer Dance Ensemble, Rider Dances and Teamwork Dance. She has been privileged to be in numerous world premiere works by Mary Barton. Ms. Gladney graduated summa cum laude from Rider University in 2006, receiving a BA in Elementary Education, Early Childhood Education and Dance as part of the Rider University/ Princeton Ballet School Dance program. Ms. Gladney is also a Pre-K teacher at Crossroads Nursery School in Princeton, which is part of the Institute for Advanced Study and she is a certified NJ Educator Preschool to Fifth grade. |
| ANNE WOODSIDE GRIBBINS (Ballet) began her training at Princeton Ballet School with founder Audree Estey. She continued her studies with the school for over 14 years, joining the Princeton Ballet Company (now American Repertory Ballet) at the age of 17, and dancing professionally under Artistic Director Dermot Burke for six seasons. She appeared in The Nutcracker in many roles including Snow Queen and Dew Drop and as Desdemona in The Moor’s Pavane. She performed in works by Dermot Burke, Gerald Arpino, and Antony Tudor, among others. After joining the faculty of Princeton Ballet School in 1991, Ms. Gribbins also served as an administrator for the Summer Intensive and Summer Children’s Programs under School Director Mary Pat Robertson. In addition to her teaching, she has choreographed for the Summer Intensive and many school shows including Coppélia, Sleeping Beauty, Don Quixote and Swan Lake. Her dance Simple Gifts, created for Princeton Ballet School students, was performed at Princeton Ballet School’s 50th Anniversary celebration in May, 2004, and recently at Yale University. Ms. Gribbins holds an Associate of Science degree in Business Administration, and has worked for McCarter Theatre Center for the last twelve years, currently serving as Director of Marketing. Ms Gribbins was inducted into Princeton Ballet School Wall of Fame in May, 2006, and is the 2009 recipient of the Audree Estey Award for Excellence in Dance Education. |
PEGGY PETTEWAY MAHONEY (Ballet) was born in Orlando, Florida. She began her training at the School of Performing Arts and continued through the apprentice program of Southern Ballet Theatre under the direction of Barbara Riggins. She is a magna cum laude graduate of Florida State University. Ms. Petteway has danced with Bay Ballet Theatre, Southern Ballet Theatre, North Carolina Dance Theatre, Chautauqua Dance Company, and Pennsylvania Ballet. She has danced principal roles in a wide range of classical and contemporary ballets. At American Repertory Ballet, Ms. Petteway has appeared in Graham Lustig’s The Nutcracker, Paramour, Silkscreens, VISTA, Uncertain Steps, Borderlines, as a Stepsister in Cinderella, Bianca in The Shrew, and Beauty in Beauty and the Beast. She has also danced in Monopoly, The Eyes That Gently Touch, Opposites Distract, Fandango Furiouso, Lambarena, and -a part between parts-. In 2001, Ms. Petteway married fellow ARB dancer Sean Patrick Mahoney. This is Ms. Petteway’s eleventh season with American Repertory Ballet and her tenth season teaching at Princeton Ballet School. |
| AMY MEGULES (Ballet) began dancing in her hometown of Vineland, NJ, with the Vineland Regional Dance Company. She went on to receive her BFA in dance from State University of New York at Purchase, where she received the Bert Terborgh Dance Award. She apprenticed with the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, and then danced with American Repertory Ballet. She has taught on the faculties of Princeton Ballet School, the National Dance Institute of Trenton, and Mercer County Community College. While living in Cincinnati, Ms. Megules taught and choreographed for the Otto M. Budig Academy of Cincinnati Ballet, the College Conservatory of Music Preparatory Division of the University of Cincinnati, and was the ballet instructor for the elite and accelerated gymnasts at the Cincinnati Gymnastics Academy. |
| ERIKA MERO began her dance training at Princeton Ballet School. As a dancer in the Professional Training Program, she studied with Elisabeth Carroll, Septime Webre, Maria Youskevitch, and Mary Pat Robertson. Ms. Mero was a member of Princeton Ballet II, a pre-professional company of the school where she performed works by Sherry Alban. Later as a dancer in ARB Workshop, Ms. Mero appeared in the premiere of Graham Lustig’s Standstill as well as the ballerina role of Swanhilda in Coppelia. During these years, she attended The Juilliard School’s summer program. In 2006, Ms. Mero graduated Cum Laude with a BFA in Dance Performance from SUNY Purchase. After graduation, Ms. Mero continued teaching at Princeton Ballet School, where she had started in 2003. Recent performance work includes two season’s with Stuart Loungway’s Terra Firma Dance Theatre, several opera productions with Opera New Jersey and as a featured dancer/choreographer in Capriccio at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia. Ms. Mero is an ABT® certified teacher, who has successfully completed the ABT® National Training Curriculum. She has also been on the faculty of ABT’s Young Dancer Summer Workshop for two summers. In May 2010, Erika graduated with an MS in Dance Education with a concentration in ABT Ballet Pedagogy from New York University. |
| KATHLEEN MOORE (Ballet) began her serious ballet training with Dame Sonia Arova during high school at the Alabama School of Fine Arts (ASFA), She also attended summer intensives in New York, at the School of American Ballet and the American Ballet Theatre School, before graduating from ASFA as a Presidential Scholar in the Arts and moving to NY to join ABT II in 1980. Invited by Mikhail Baryshnikov to join ABT as a member of the corps in 1982, Ms. Moore was appointed soloist in 1988 and Principal Dancer in 1991. Her repertory includes Myrta in Giselle, Lescaut’s Mistress in Manon, Hagar in Pillar of Fire, The Cowgirl in Rodeo, a Stomper in In the Upper Room,and roles in works by Mark Morris, Paul Taylor, Jiri Kylian, Glen Tetley, and Agnes de Mille. She was a member of the premiere tour of the White Oak Dance Project under the direction of Mikhail Baryshnikov and Mark Morris, and has appeared in several dance documentaries and the Herbert Ross movie Dancers. Ms. Moore is married to Peter Tovar and is the mother of Becket. Since fall of 2006, she has been Ballet Mistress for American Repertory Ballet. |
| KYRA NICHOLS (Guest Teacher, Ballet) began her early training in Berkeley, California, with her mother, Sally Streets, a former member of New York City Ballet. By age 13, Ms. Nichols started spending her summers in New York at School of American Ballet. She became an apprentice to NYCB in 1974, and quickly was moved into a corps position. By 1979, she had attained the rank of Principal Dancer. As such, she has danced all the great ballerina roles of the NYCB repertory, including Chaconne, Concerto Barocco, Liebeslieder Walzer, Afternoon of a Faun, Stars and Stripes, and numerous others. Critic Marilyn Hunt describes Ms. Nichols as a “ballerina full of freedom and speed and joy. She...irradiates everything she does with integrity, taste, and a fresh glow.” |
NORA ORPHANIDES (Ballet) trained at the American Ballet Center, official
school of the Joffrey Ballet in New York. She has also studied modern dance
at the Erick Hawkins Studio. She received a B.A. from Hunter College. After
moving to Princeton, Ms. Orphanides studied with Virginia Griffee at the
Princeton Ballet School. She choreographed numerous spring musicals for
Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart. She is a biographee in
“Who’s Who in American Women,” “Who’s Who in American Education” and
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| ANTHONY RABARA (Pilates) danced professionally as a ballet and modern dancer, touring in the States and abroad. He studied Pilates technique with and was certified by Romana Kryzanowska, and has been teaching Pilates technique in New York and New Jersey since 1982. Anthony is a Master Teacher and a Teacher Traininer with Romanaspilates. |
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| KATIE SCIBIENSKI (Ballet) began her dance training at Princeton Ballet School with Cheryl Whitney, Carol Bellis, and Sally Edwards. Upon moving to Michigan she trained at The Flint School of Performing Arts and spent a year at The Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington, D.C. Katie graduated cum laude from Butler University’s Dance Program in Indiana where she received a B.A. in Dance Pedagogy. Katie danced with Portland Ballet Company, in Portland, Maine, before moving to NY in 2006. She spent a year dancing with the STEPS Repertory Ensenble in NYC and has danced in numerous works by Yesid Lopez, a member of Ballet Hispanico. She has been teaching for Princeton Ballet School since 2006, including teaching Summer Intensive Intermediates in Cranbury. Ms. Scibienski continues to be a freelance dancer in the metropolitan area. |
KATHLEEN SMITH (Hand in Hand, Beginning Dance, Ballet), a graduate of Princeton Ballet School Professional Training Program, has also studied dance at the Joffrey Ballet School in New York City. Performance work highlights include the evil Carabosse in our production of Sleeping Beauty in 2003, numerous appearances in Nutcracker and with Susan Tenney and Dancers, and as the Spirit of Mary in A Jazz Nativity choreographed by Bat Abbit. Ms. Smith has been teaching and choreographing clogging for the past eleven years with her group, The Century Cloggers. She also teaches DANCE POWER, an outreach program of American Repertory Ballet in collaboration with the New Brunswick Public School system. She has been teaching for Princeton Ballet School since 2003. This summer, Ms. Smith will also teach dance for the George Street Playhouse’s 2010 Summer Theater Academy. |
SUSAN TENNEY (Modern Dance, Ballet) has been produced off-Broadway, at the Limelight, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Jacob’s Pillow Touring Ensemble, Edinburgh International Theatre Festival, and Tanglewood. She was resident choreographer and movement coach at Williamstown Theater Festival for four years and has re-staged the choreography for McCarter Theatre’s A Christmas Carol. She has performed as a soloist with Jean Erdman, Andrew deGroat and Dancers, Novantiqua, Muna Tseng, and Nat Horne Musical Theater. She is Artistic Director of Susan Tenney and Company. Ms. Tenney began her dance training here at Princeton Ballet School with Audrée Estey, then went on to receive a B.F.A. from SUNY Purchase. She has taught here for over 20 years. |
DR. KIM CHANDLER VACCARO (Beginning Dance, Ballet, Modern Dance, World Dance Forms, Pilates) is an Associate Professor of Dance at Westminster College of the Arts, of Rider University. She became a professional dancer and teacher while earning a BA in Choreography and Performance from the University of California at Santa Barbara, a MA in Dance Education from UCLA, and an Ed.D from Temple University. During that time she performed in numerous modern dance companies, choreographed and produced her own work, and taught dance at colleges on both the east and west coasts. Dr. Vaccaro has taught at Princeton Ballet School since 1989, and she has also been an educational consultant to the organization. In addition to speaking at national conferences on dance education, Dr. Kim, as she is known at PBS and on campus, works often with the NJ Department of Education. She has choreographed over 50 dance pieces for the Ballet School and the Rider Dance Program. Dr. Vaccaro is the author of Jazz Dance Today with Lorraine Person Kriegel; the editor of Dance In My Life; and a contributing editor to the award winning Core Collection in Dance. |
CHERYL WHITNEY-MARCUARD (Ballet) received an M.S. in Ballet from Indiana University and a B.A. in English Literature and Music from St.Lawrence University. She was trained and performed professionally in the Baltimore/Washington, D.C. area. In addition to teaching for Princeton Ballet School, she has been delighted to serve as a rehearsal director for the ARB productions of The Nutcracker. She is a teacher and national teacher trainer for Music Together LLC. Guest teaching credits include Brandywine Ballet, Peabody Conservatory, Ballet Royale Academy, and New Jersey Governor’s School. Her ballet/dance teaching in academic settings includes Howard University, Princeton University, Indiana University, The Lawrenceville School, Foxcroft School (where she instituted a program in dance), and Latin School of Chicago.
As Artistic Director of Reverence Dance Company her activities have included choreography and participation in liturgies in churches and cathedrals in New Jersey, Maryland, and New York City; presentation of workshops at Westminster Choir College; and collaborations with Princeton Pro Musica. Ms. Whitney-Marcuard has received grants from the New York and New Jersey State Councils on the Arts and was the 2008 recipient of the Audrée Estey Award for Excellence in Dance Education.
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NOTE: Many of the faculty members of
ARB's Princeton Ballet School maintain active professional
dance careers in addition to their teaching commitments.
The school supports this professional involvement and is very proud of its
teachers. When it is necessary for a teacher to miss class because of
performance or illness, every effort is made to replace this teacher with another
teacher from our staff or from our substitute roster.
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