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BIG NEWS!
The Tallahassee Ballet is moving August 2021.
OUR NEW LOCATION IS NorthHampton Shopping Center at 2910 Kerry Forest Parkway.
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850-224-6917 [email protected] 1940 N Monroe Street, Suite 78 Tallahassee, FL 32303
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Administrative & Artistic Staff
Janet Pichard ........ Chief Executive Officer Tyrone Brooks .................. Artistic Director Kathryn Karrh Cashin, PhD ....... Resident
Choreographer Ann Todd........Resident Costume Designer Yenna Colvin.................. Costume Mistress Boo Hartsell.................... Costume Mistress Carla DeLoach........Development Director Photography .................... Meagan Helman
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A MESSAGE FROM THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Janet Pichard
Dear Patrons,
Thank you for watching our virtual spring performance Dancing in the Streets! Artistic Director Tyrone Brooks, his dancers, and choreographers have worked hard to bring you an energizing performance that showcases the beauty of local outdoor venues in Leon County. We hope you enjoy it.
Exciting things are happening in 2021.
WE ARE MOVING! The Tallahassee Ballet (TTB) is moving to the Northampton Shopping Center located at 2910 Kerry Forest Parkway.
The new location contains three large studios which will allot
our professional dancers a dedicated studio and expand the school’s schedule and class offerings.
Classes at our new location will begin in the fall. Class schedules will be available May 3, 2021. Please visit our website to register!
TTB is looking forward to in-person performances. We plan to invite you back to experience the live ballet at Opperman Music Hall and Ruby Diamond Concert Hall on the FSU campus for the 2021-2022 season.
If you have not already done so, please consider helping us achieve our mission
of bringing Tallahassee high quality performances, education, and outreach programming by becoming a donor. Donations may be made as a single or recurring gift. For as little as $20+/month you can become a Sustaining Patron and help us continue to expand the arts within our community. Visit TallahasseeBallet.org and give today!
To stay connected and up-to-date on all things at TTB, please visit our website and follow us on social media.
We are grateful for your support! Janet Pichard
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Our Story ...
The Tallahassee Ballet (TTB) was founded in 1972 as “The Tallahassee Civic
Ballet,” Tallahassee’s premiere ballet company. The Ballet was founded by Helen Salter, a former Balanchine dancer who dedicated her life to dance from an early age. The original studios were housed in the lower level of the Northwood Mall which was, at the time, a thriving shopping center.
In the four decades since its inception, The Tallahassee Ballet has evolved alongside our city, becoming an integral part of Tallahassee culture. Over 47 seasons, the Ballet has provided North Florida with renditions of some of the world’s most renowned ballets highlighted by exquisite music, original costumes, and innovative choreography.
We proudly operate on a mission of enriching our community through exposure to excellent dance, education, and community outreach.
The Tallahassee Ballet company is composed of 40-50 dancers who are selected annually through auditions and train at the dedicated studios of The Tallahassee Ballet School. The
troupe consists of both professional and emerging professional dancers, as well as critically acclaimed guest artists representing major ballet companies from across North America. Over the years, our dancers have had the opportunity to study under and perform with more than 500 guest choreographers, artists, teachers, and musicians.
In the early years, the Ballet was administered by an active volunteer Board of Directors and Artistic Director Nancy Carroll Abbey. Joyce Straub Fausone was the
next Artistic Director, leading the organization to prosper for more than 20 years in partnership with Resident Choreographer Kathryn Karrh Cashin. Cashin was responsible for choreographing the first full-length production of The Nutcracker in 1986, and many other works including
the premieres of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cinderella, and Beauty and the Beast.
In 2006, The Tallahassee Ballet hired Artistic Director Henry Hernandez, an international performer (Ballet Royal de Wallonie, Belgium) and former principal dancer
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and choreographer for Southern Ballet Theatre (Orlando Ballet). In 2008, Rick McCullough became
The Tallahassee Ballet’s Artistic Director. McCullough was on faculty with the Florida State University School of Dance. He has performed internationally and received numerous choreography awards.
In 2013, The Tallahassee Ballet welcomed Artistic Director Tyrone Brooks. Brooks brings with him a wide range of professional experience including 18 years as a Principal Dancer at the Dance Theatre of Harlem in New York City. Brooks’s
artistic vision is the foundation
for TTB’s productions, which are spearheaded by a creative team including Brooks, Assistant to the Artistic Director Hope Eltomi, and Resident Choreographer Kathryn Karrh Cashin.
The Tallahassee Ballet is administered by an active Board
of Directors and a full-time Chief Executive Officer, Janet Pichard. Corporate underwriting, private foundations, and grant support are also vital to The Tallahassee Ballet. TTB receives continuous support
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Our Story
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from local businesses; national companies; and city, county, state, and federal grant programs. The Tallahassee Ballet relies on and values the resources of the FSU College of Music, Florida State Opera, FSU School of Dance, FSU School of Theatre, and FAMU that contribute to our prosperity. Additionally,
TTB is funded in part by the State
of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture.
The exceptional reputation of The Tallahassee Ballet is the product
of many individuals over the years who have given their talents and dedication.
Giving back to our community
is a critical part of our mission, and TTB has supported community outreach programs since its inception. Over the years, the programs have
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grown, expanded, and traveled to ensure that they continue to meet
the needs of the community. Current programming includes Now Playing (live productions for school audiences), On Stage Now (encore mini- performances), Backstage at the Ballet (educational open house event for the community), Turning Pointe (summer workshop series for dancers), Joy of Motion (summer camps and classes), and regional touring.
The most widespread community outreach program is DanceChance, which was initiated in 1997. This program was designed to provide economically disadvantaged school- aged children with tuition-free dance instruction and dancewear. The program currently provides classes in public schools, after-school programs, and community centers around
Leon County.
Over the past 46 seasons, The Tallahassee Ballet has established a repertoire as diverse as the Company itself. TTB’s repertoire of both classical and contemporary works has gradually grown to include 16 classical ballet pieces, seven full-length ballet productions, 21 neoclassical pieces,
47 modern ballet and jazz pieces, 18 romantic ballet pieces, and six children’s ballets.
The Tallahassee Ballet strives to present quality ballet productions that will stimulate appreciation of dance and cultural arts in the community. From first-time attendees to veteran ballet fans, and from college students to families, our productions truly have something to offer everyone.
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ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Tyrone Brooks
Tyrone Brooks joined The Tallahassee Ballet as the Artistic Director in the 2013-2014 season. He has a wide range of professional experience including 18 years as a Principal Dancer with the Dance Theatre of Harlem, New York
City (DTH). Brooks has been featured in a number of acclaimed performances including Alvin Ailey’s The River, Jerome Robbins’ Fancy Free, and John Butler’s Othello. He has also performed internationally in Austria, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Israel, Japan, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, Venezuela, South Africa, and Russia.
In 1984, Brooks was nominated for the Dancers Choice
Award in London for his performance as Alan Strange in Equus.
His work has also been in a number of television specials including the NBC presentation of Dance Theatre of Harlem’s Creole Giselle, the closing ceremonies of the 1984 Olympics, the PBS series Dance in America, CBS 60 Minutes with Ed Bradley featuring DTH, the PBS presentation of Live at the Kennedy Center The Making of Firebird, and the 1993 Kennedy Center Honors.
For over 25 years, Brooks served as full-time Ballet Faculty at DTH. During that time he also served as the Associate Director of the DTH community outreach program Dancing Through Barriers Ensemble. As Associate Director, Brooks represented DTH as a teaching artist in New York City Public Schools and created curriculum development workshops for teachers. He also conducted master classes and outreach programs in South Florida, for the Dance Theatre of Harlem-Kennedy Center Residency in Washington, D.C., and the Northern Virginia region.
Mr. Brooks has also taught at various institutions including Hofstra University, Mary Mount Manhattan College, Florida State University School of Dance, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, New World School of the Arts, Thomas Armour Youth Ballet, Flint Institute of Music- Flint Youth Ballet, Interlochin Center for the Arts, Ballet Hispanico, and Hampton University.
In 2004, Brooks joined the Virginia School of the Arts as the Director of Community Dance and was subsequently appointed as the Executive Director of the Virginia School
of the Arts by the Board of Directors. During his tenure at the Virginia School of the Arts, Brooks became an active member of the Lynchburg community and developed community partnerships. His community engagement extended to service on the advisory panel for the Virginia Commission for the Arts Tour and Performing Arts Directory, James River Diversity Council, and the Board of Directors of the James River Council for the Arts.
Mr. Brooks has served on the Florida State University Friends of Dance Board of Directors, The Florida Division for Individual Artist Fellowship Panel, and has choreographed for The Tallahassee Chapter “Links” Beautillion.
Mr. Brooks is featured in Smithsonian Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C., with the Dance Theatre of Harlem and was recently inducted into (MOBB) Museum of Blacks in Ballet.
Tyrone Brooks
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RESIDENT CHOREOGRAPHER
Kathryn Karrh Cashin
Kathryn Karrh Cashin has choreographed for The Tallahassee Ballet for more than 30 years, including The Nutcracker and numerous chamber works, most notably Boléro. Her full-
length ballets include Beauty and the Beast, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Coppélia, Cinderella, and The Sleeping Beauty. She has also choreographed several children’s ballets. She has served as choreographer for more than 20 Florida State Opera works, most recently The Mikado, Eugene Onegin, Orpheus in the Underworld, and Romeo and Juliet.
Dr. Cashin holds a Bachelor of Arts in Russian/Business
Administration, Master of Arts in Slavic and East European Studies and a PhD
in Humanities. She is on the faculty of Florida State University’s Program in Interdisciplinary Humanities, supervises the multicultural film course, and frequently teaches in Europe during the summer.
Dr. Cashin, a former president of the Junior League of Tallahassee and graduate of Leadership Tallahassee, serves on the Leadership Council of FSU’s College of Arts and Sciences, and is a former curriculum and steering chair for Youth Leadership Tallahassee. She serves as vice-president of scholarships for Alpha Delta Pi Sorority National Foundation. She is the 2014 recipient of The Tallahassee Ballet’s Melissa Villella award for volunteer service.
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RESIDENT COSTUME DESIGNER
Ann Todd
Yenna Colvin and Boo Hartsell, Costume Mistresses
Ann Todd became involved with The Tallahassee Ballet in 1988 when her daughter, Julie, was in the Company. She im- mediately found a creative outlet on the costume committee and began creating her own designs. In 1990, she became the Resident Costume Designer, and this will be her 28th season of costuming at Tallahassee Ballet.
Her original costumes include the ensemble pieces of An Evening
of Music and Dance productions, such as Boléro, Malachite, and the gypsycostumesofMadeline’sGypsyAdventure. Shealsodesigned
the Company’s 2002 production of the full-length The Sleeping
Beauty, and the premiere costumes of Coppélia, A Midsummer
Night’s Dream, and Beauty and the Beast. In 2005, Ann was com-
missioned by the FSU Dance Department to design the costumes for the premiere of Aqueous Myth. Over the next two years, Ann and her staff added costumes for two new premiere ballets, Henry Hernandez’s Alice In Wonderland and Peter Pan. The following years brought us Story Book Ballet, Tallahassee Rocks, Snow White, Rapunzel, Carnival of Animals, In Performance with The Tallahassee Ballet, and the 2016 productions of Firebird and La Bayadère, all with new designs. This season will bring more wonderful costumes.
The Ballet is also indebted to Yenna Colvin and Boo Hartsell, our Costume Mistresses. In 2011 Yenna added the art of mask-making to her already extensive talents when we needed tocostumealloftheanimalcharactersinRapunzel. BothsheandBoohavemasteredthe
art of constructing tutus, and through these many years, have assisted Ann in the costume shop with their countless hours of hard work and dedication. They have donated their sewing skills and have helped organize, coordinate and maintain the Ballet’s hundreds of costumes. Besides being known as the “tutu queens,” they are essential to the Company and, along
with Laurie Molina, Sue Kay, and Brenda Huang, complete this extraordinary team. Many thanks go to Yenna and her husband Barry for designing and building the storage of all our costumes, materials and supplies in The Tallahassee Ballet facility.
Thank you to valued contributors to the production: Brenda Huang, Sue Kay, and Laurie Molina.
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DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR
Carla DeLoach
Support Tallahassee’s Ballet Company. The Tallahassee Ballet is a not-for-profit institution. It is through corporate partnerships with local businesses that The Tallahassee Ballet continues to expand our programming and successfully reach our goals of providing excellent training, discipline, direction and leadership for our community’s most talented young artists. For further information on how your company can contribute, please contact Carla DeLoach at 850-591- 2271.
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CINEMATOGRAPHY
Jennifer Akalina Petuch
Jennifer Akalina Petuch is currently Adjunct
Faculty and Staff at Florida State University's
School of Dance. Originally from West Palm
Beach, Florida, she trained for 14 years at the
Academy of Ballet Florida and performed in
professional ballets with the Company of Ballet
Florida in pieces including Marie Hale’s The
Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, and Sleeping Beauty.
She graduated magna cum laudé from the
University of South Florida (USF) achieving a
bachelor’s degree in Dance Studies. While at USF, she performed in several notable pieces including Gretchen Warren’s, Les Sylphides and Doug Varone’s, Sacre du Printemps. Petuch participated in the USF Dance in Paris Program in the summer of 2010 working with well- known choreographers Claudia Lavista and Michael Foley. After graduating, she taught at three dance studios in the Tampa Bay area as well as performing and choreographing with Shoes at the Door Dance Company.
Petuch graduated summa cum laudé from Florida State University’s School of Dance with her master’s degree of Fine Arts in choreography and performance with a focus in dance technology in 2017. While attending FSU, she performed in multiple pieces such as Tim Glenn’s, RIDE, Joséphine Garibaldi’s, Land of the Pick and Choose, and a Tedx Talk in Spring
of 2015. She also became certified by Balanced Body, Inc. as a Pilates Mat instructor in 2017. Her MFA thesis resulted in a two-year collaboration with the FSU Computer Science faculty and students creating an original interactive software for the stage called ViFlow. She creates screendances, projections, and uses new technology to enhance the performance experience. Her life-long mission as a performing artist and choreographer is to create work that resonates with the audience members. Her goal is for them to walk out of the theater thinking back on their experience feeling stimulated and inspired.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Perrone Ford
Perrone Ford is a Tallahassee-based professional photographer and cinematographer currently conducting special projects for The Tallahassee Ballet. He is an active staff photographer for FSU Athletics, The Tallahassee Symphony, and several other local clients. He is a local filmmaker having worked on over 10 productions in the North Florida region. His work has been featured in Tallahassee Magazine, Unconquered Magazine (FSU Boosters), on numerous ads and billboards, and has been published by the US Olympic Committee Committee, the NCAA, and ESPN.
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PROGRAM
Dancing in the Streets “In this Lane”
Composer: Darryl J. Hoffman
Choreography: Trent D. Williams, Jr
CAST
Jorge Arceo, Aleck Condon, Conrad Channell, Hoke Payne, Christopher Miller
Location: Smoky Hollow (Cascades Park)
TrentD.Williams,Jr. anativeHoustonianreceived
his MFA in Dance Performance & Choreography from
The Florida State University and BA in Psychology from Morehouse College. Williams was a founding member of Urban Souls Dance Company in Houston, Texas and he has been a guest artist with The Tallahassee Ballet in Tallahassee, FL, and EDGEWORKS Dance Theatre in Washington, DC.
While at Morehouse College, he worked with choreographers such as Nicole Wesley, Jhon strokes, Ivan Pulinkala, Darla Johnson and Wayne Smith as a member of the Spelman Dance Theatre. Additionally, Mr. Williams has performed alongside Destiny’s Child, 112, and Janelle Monae among others.
In 2007, Williams was invited to dance with Dayton Contemporary Dance Company (DCDC) in world-renowned works by Talley Beatty, The Stack Up (1992) and Eleo Pomare, Las Desenamoradas (1987), Donald Byrd, Rodney A. Brown, William B. McClellan, Jr., Debbie Blunden-Diggs, Shonna Hickman-Matlock and Bill T. Jones, to name a few. In addition, he has performed works by choreographers like Gerri Houlihan, Anjali Austin, and Michael Foley.
He is currently working on a new project with Liz Lerman and Jawole Zollar called Blood, Muscle, and Bones. Williams’ choreography has been performed by Dayton Contemporary Second Company, Texas Tech University, Towson University, University of Trinidad & Tobago, Coker College Dance Company, Urban Souls Dance Company, and has been showcased at The American Dance Festival, The American College Dance Festival, The Modern Atlanta Dance Festival, The Dance Gallery in Huntsville, Texas, and Kennedy Center: Millennium Stage. Mr. Williams has served as a faculty member at the University
of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), University of Trinidad & Tobago, Howard Community College, Howard University Division of Fine Arts and Johns Hopkins Estellle Dennis/ Peabody Dance Training Program for Boys. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Modern Dance & Choreography at the University of Florida.
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PROGRAM
How They Danced
Composer: Elena Ruehr
Choreoraphy: Katy E. Cashin
CAST
Katerina De Lawyer, Eden Desotell, Katherine Liljestrand,
Christopher Miller
Location: St. Teresa Beach
Thank you to the Doolin Family for the filming location.
Katy E. Cashin is a freelance choreographer in New York City creating works for White Horse Theater Company (WHTC) and The Tallahassee Ballet (TTB). Cashin’s WHTC productions include Tennessee William’s A
Cavalier for Milady, Sam Shepard’s Eyes for Consuela and WHTC Artistic Director Cyndy Marion’s world
premiere, You Are Perfect which was selected for the 2017 Toronto Fringe Festival and restaged in Los Angeles, CA
in 2018. Cashin has created ten original works for TTB including Rhapsody, Retour, Focus, Mainframe, Rebonds B. She created works for “First Look” presented by Brooklyn Ballet and South Georgia Ballet’s FUSE: Boots & Ballet.
Cashin received her BFA in dance performance and
BA in history from Southern Methodist University where she performed soloist roles in masterworks by George Balanchine, Maurice Béjart, Arthur Mitchell, and Gerald Arpino. She trained with The Tallahassee Ballet (TTB) under the direction of Joyce Fausone as well as under Christina Paolucci (New York Theatre Ballet), Sheila Humphreys (Royal Ballet), and Richard Sias (National Ballet of Canada).
Cashin received her masters of public administration from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs in New York City. Cashin is an ABT® Certified Teacher, who has successfully completed the ABT® Teacher Training Intensive in Pre-Primary through Level 3 of the ABT® National Training Curriculum.
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PROGRAM
“Lakme” The Flower Duet
Composer: Leo Delibes
Chorography: Tyrone Brooks
CAST
Eden Desotell, Abby Ginn, Emma Iseman, Emilia Minton, Bella Rich, Madison Ryan
Location: Museum of Florida History
Tyrone Brooks joined The Tallahassee Ballet as the Artistic Director in the 2013-2014 season. Brooks has a wide-range
of professional experience including 18 years as a Principal Dancer at the Dance Theatre of Harlem, New York City (DTH). Brooks has been featured in a number of acclaimed performances including Alvin Ailey’s The River, Eugen Loring’s Billy the Kid, Jerome Robbins’ Fancy Free, Michael Smuins’
A Song for Dead Warriors, Medea, and John Butler’s Othello. Brooks has also performed internationally in Austria, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Israel, Japan, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, Venezuela, South Africa, and Russia. Additionally, Brooks has been featured in performances by celebrated choreographers George Balanchine, Agnes DeMille, Geoffrey Holder, Garth Fagan, Jerome Robbins, Alonzo King, John Butler, John McFall, Robert North, John Taras, Billy Wilson, and DTH Founder and Artistic Director Arthur Mitchell.
In addition to his experience as a Principal Dancer and performer, Brooks has accumulated extensive experience as a dance faculty member and administrator. For over 25 years, Brooks served as full-time Ballet Faculty at DTH, as well as Associate Director of the Dancing Through Barriers Ensemble. As Associate Director, Brooks represented DTH as a teaching artist in New York City Public Schools. He also conducted master classes and outreach programs in South Florida and for the Dance Theatre of Harlem-Kennedy Center Residency in Washington, D.C. and the Northern Virginia region. Brooks served as the Director of Community Dance and then Executive Director of the Virginia School of the Arts. During his tenure in Lynchburg, Brooks developed community partnerships with Opera on the James, The Academy of Fine Arts, Lynchburg Symphony Orchestra and the E.C.C. Glass High School Theatre Department.
Mr. Brooks has a Certificate in Advanced Business Administration from Lynchburg College and was a Visiting Artist for the Florida State University School of Dance. Mr. Brooks serves on the Florida State University Friends of Dance Board of Directors and was recently inducted into the (MOBB) Museum of Blacks in Ballet.
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PROGRAM
Saltamontes
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Chorography: Meagan Helman
CAST
Carri Britt, Abigail Centers, Conrad Channell, Kelly Chase, Katerina De Lawyer, Katherine Liljestrand, Christopher Miller, Lauren Wood
Location: Quincy, Florida
Meagan Helman is an adjunct faculty member at Florida State University’s School of Dance and a faculty member and company teacher at The Tallahassee Ballet. She performed professionally as a principal dancer with Ballet Theatre
of Maryland (BTM), where her repertoire included: Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet, Coppelia, Cinderella, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Firebird, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Nutcracker, Carmen, and The Scarlet Letter, among many other contemporary works. Meagan served as the Ballet Mistress for BTM from 2009-2014, where she also choreographed and taught for the company and school. Her choreography has been performed by Ballet Theatre of Maryland,
The Tallahassee Ballet, Delaware Dance Company,
Goucher College, and at the American College Dance
Association. Meagan holds a BA in Dance from Goucher College and an MA in Dance from Florida State University. She is currently the photographer for FSU’s School of Dance and the performance photographer for The Tallahassee Ballet. Her photographs have been published in Dance Magazine, Dance Studio Life, and Dance Teacher Magazine. Meagan is an American Ballet Theatre® Certified Teacher, who has successfully completed the ABT® Teacher Training Intensive in Pre-Primary through Level 3 of the ABT® National Training Curriculum.
Special thank you to the Hutchinson family for their generosity in allowing The Tallahassee Ballet to use of their property.
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PROGRAM
Becoming
Composer: ediT
Choreography: Carri Britt and Christopher Miller
CAST
Carri Britt and Christopher Miller
Location: Blue Sink, Leon County
Special thank you to the Hutchinson family for their generosity in allowing The Tallahassee Ballet to use of their property.
Carri Britt is a principal dancer currently in her eighth season with The Tallahassee Ballet. She has danced both principal and soloist roles in classical works such as The Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, La Bayadère, Swan Lake, and Paquita. She has danced original choreography by Kathryn Karrh Cashin, Ilana Goldman, Christopher Huggins, Trent Williams, Jr., Katy Cashin, Anjali Austin, and Gabriel Williams. Carri was given the opportunity choreograph for TTB’s “Night of Pas
de deux’s” and later restaged her work for An Evening of Music and Dance film “Pulling Back the Curtin.” Much of her classical ballet training is contributed to the Vagonava method. Carri is also Pilate certified and has a bachelor’s degree of fine arts in dance from Florida State University School of Dance.
Christopher Miller began performing around the age of 10. He attended the dance program at Santa Fe College in Gainesville, FL and later transferred to the Florida State University School of Dance. Miller’s on stage career is not limited to classical ballet. He has performed in musicals, such as West Side Story, and even spent a year and a half in a hip hop crew called The Levitations. In the future, Chris envisions dance as a vehicle to travel, meet new people, and gain even more diverse life experiences.
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PROGRAM
Dancing in the Streets
Musical Artist: Martha Reeves and the Vandellas Choreography: Ilana Goldman
CAST
Florida State University School of Dance & The Tallahassee Ballet Location: Florida State University, “Honors Way”
Ilana Goldman is a dancer, choreographer, filmmaker, and educator. She serves as Choreographer in Residence of Bowen McCauley Dance Company and has choreographed works
for Sacramento Ballet, New York Theatre Ballet, ARC Dance Seattle, The Tallahassee Ballet, Black Rock City Ballet, Santa Cruz Ballet Theatre, Perry-Mansfield, Florida State University, and University of Washington. Her work was selected for performances at Brooklyn’s Dumbo Dance Festival and the Boston Contemporary Dance Festival.
She danced professionally as a principal dancer with Oakland
Ballet and Sacramento Ballet, as a member of Cedar Lake
Contemporary Ballet, Trey McIntyre Project, and as a guest
artist with Alonzo King LINES Ballet. She performed in works
by George Balanchine, Marius Petipa, Agnes de Mille, and many other legends.
Her three short dance films, Convergence, Fledgling, and InterState screened at numerous juried international film festivals in the United States and abroad, including in Sweden, Russia, Greece, Mexico, Portugal, and Ireland.
Goldman has presented papers on community engagement at the Hawaii International Conference of Arts and Humanities, the World Dance Alliance Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, the World Dance Alliance Global Summit in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, and the National Dance Education Organization’s Annual Conference in San Antonio, Texas.
She is an Associate Professor of Dance at Florida State University and has taught at Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts School and Camp, Berkeley City Ballet, the School of the Sacramento Ballet, the University of Washington, the American College Dance Association Conference, and Regional Dance America’s National Choreography Intensive, in addition to company classes and master classes across the country with Trey McIntyre Project.
Goldman received her BFA from The Juilliard School, where she was awarded the John Erskine Prize for artistic and academic excellence, and her MFA from the University of Washington.
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Jorge Arceo is in his sixth season with The Tallahassee Ballet, just recently being promoted to Principal dancer.
He has starred in performances
such as The Nutcracker, In Performance with The Tallahassee Ballet, and An Evening of Music and Dance performances from 2014-2019.
Born in Havana, Cuba, Arceo began dancing at age nine at the academy of Cuban dancer Narciso Medina. He completed his studies at Escuela Provincial de Ballet and then attended The National Ballet School. At 19, he joined the Contemporary Dance of Cuba company, where he danced for three years
and became the first soloist. Arceo has toured nationally and internationally with Contemporary Dance of Cuba and worked with various world-renowned choreographers.
After arriving at the U.S. in 2009, he danced with the Cuban Classical Ballet
of Miami and joined Las
Vegas’ Rio Hotel show
ND’S FUEGO. In 2010,
Arceo moved to Los Angeles, where he danced as a Principal for various companies, including Pasadena Dance Theater, City of Angels Ballet, California Riverside Ballet, and the production Silent Roar, choreographed by Zina Bethune.
DANCERS
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Carri Britt is
in her seventh
season with The
Tallahassee Ballet;
fourth as a principal dancer.
She has danced soloist and
lead roles in classical works
including The Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, La Bayadère, and Paquita,
as well as original works by Kathryn Karrh Cashin,
Ilana Goldman, Christopher Huggins, Katy Cashin,
Anjali Austin, and Gabriel Williams. Britt trained in the Vagonava method at the Academy of Ballet Internationale in Indianapolis, where she toured The Nutcracker and The Sleeping Beauty with the professional company in residence. She later graduated from the Louisville Ballet School. Carri has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in dance from Florida State University.
DANCERS
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Abigail Centers joined The Tallahassee Ballet as a Junior Dancer in 2009 and was promoted to Soloist in 2016. She has received the Helen Salter Scholarship and the Ken Cashin Scholarship awarded by The Tallahassee Ballet Board of Directors and has performed in productions of Swan Lake and Other Works, Paquita and Other Works, Cinderella, Bernstein and Gershwin, An Evening of Music and Dance, In Performance,
The Nutcracker, Beauty and the Beast, Rapunzel, The Sleeping Beauty,
and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Her lead and feature roles include Clara, Columbine, Mirliton, and Spanish from The Nutcracker;
Pas de Trois Variation from Paquita; Jewels Pas de Quatre: Diamond Fairy from The Sleeping Beauty; Waltz Pas de Deux from Kathryn
Cashin’s Three Dances; and Dance of the Little Swans
from Swan Lake. Centers has attended intensives
at Orlando Ballet, Richmond Ballet, the Harid Conservatory, and Florida State University School of Dance, and she worked as a resident assistant for the Orlando Ballet School’s summer intensive. She is currently pursuing her bachelor’s degree in computer science at Florida State University.
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DANCERS
Conrad Channell is is pursuing a BFA in dance at
Florida State University. His devotion to dance stems from his introduction to New Tampa Dance Theatre at the age
of 10. After training in ballet, tap, jazz, modern, and hip
hop that first year, Channell moved to Kansas City, Missouri, and continued his dance education as a company member of Heart of America Youth Ballet and their performing group. For two years, Conrad shared his enthusiasm of dance by teaching youth ballet classes
as an assistant instructor at Heart of America Dance Centre. He trained with Kansas City Ballet, Manhattan Dance Project, Autie Miller & Company, P&D School of Dance, Tremaine, NYCDA, and KAR. In past performances, Channell was featured in DTT and HADC’s productions of
The Nutcracker, as well as original renditions ofCinderellaandTheLittleMermaid. Lastyear,
Channell performed in Caleb Mitchell’s
Linked in Florida State
University’s
Evenings of Dance
and trained with
Texas Ballet Theater over the
Summer. This year, Channell performed in The
Tallahassee Ballet’s An Evening of Music and Dance in
pieces by choreographers Katy E. Cashin and Jennifer
Medina as a member of the Corps De Ballet.
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Katerina De Lawyer is excited to return for her third season at The Tallahassee Ballet. She began her training at Ballet Lubbock in 2008 performing in a variety of full length works including Sleeping Beauty, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Firebird, Cinderella, and The Nutcracker. Throughout her training, she attending summer intensives at CPYB, Kaastbaan, Boston Ballet, Alonzo King Line’s Ballet, Chautauqua, River North Dance Theater, and Cincinnati Ballet. In 2012, De Lawyer attended Texas Christian University and received her BFA in
Ballet and minor in Child Development, graduating cum laude. During her time
at TCU she performed many different classical works including Le Corsaire, Paquita, Giselle, and Joffrey’s Birthday Variations. She also performed many contemporary dances featuring choreography by Susan Jaffe, Michael Bearden, and Willy Shives as well as many local choreographers. She also participated and performed at ACDA and at The Texas Dance Improvisational Festival. De Lawyer has received awards including Nordan Fine Art’s Scholarship, Excellence
in Lighting Design, and given Honorable Mention for
her choreography When They’re Not Watching.
After graduating, De Lawyer danced professionally with the Central Illinois Ballet as a company member, teaching staff, and lighting designer.
She performed soloist roles in Dracula,
The Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, and
Beauty and the Beast. While performing
she also designed the lighting for
The Nutcracker and Beauty and the Beast.
In 2017, she joined the Tallahassee
Ballet as a Corps de Ballet
member. She performed in
The Nutcracker and in
Swan Lake as pas
de quatre along
with many additional contemporary
works. During the summer of 2019, she
performed for the Corps de Ballet Conference and then shortly after was promoted to Soloist Dancer.
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DANCERS
Katherine Liljestrand grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she began studying with Ballet Repertory Theatre of New Mexico at the age of three. She attended summer intensives with American Ballet Theatre, Nutmeg Conservatory for the Arts, the Walnut Hill School
(on merit scholarship), and Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet. Liljestrand
first joined Ballet Repertory Theatre of New Mexico’s company as an apprentice in 2007 and danced with the company until 2015. Liljestrand danced featured and principal roles in numerous BRT productions, including Sleeping Beauty (Aurora), Beauty & the Beast (Beauty), The
Nutcracker (Dew Drop Fairy, Sugarplum Fairy), Diana & Acteon (Diana), The Little Mermaid (the Prince’s Fiancée), and Alex Ossadnik’s Romeo & Juliet (Peace). Liljestrand began teaching ballet in 2011 and has since taught all levels of ballet. She acted as the Junior Company Mistress in 2015, staging an excerpt from Coppélia for BRT’s
Annual Academy Performance.
After graduating from the University of New Mexico in 2014 with bachelor degrees in both biology and English, Liljestrand moved to Washington, D.C., in 2015 to attend Georgetown University Law Center, where she received her J.D. in
2019. While in DC, Liljestrand continued to teach at Adagio Ballet in
Arlington, VA, and briefly,
at Ballet Petite, where
she acted as rehearsal
mistress for their
production of The Nutcracker.
Liljestrand danced with several
choreographers and groups in the D.C. metro
area, including dancing lead roles in Classical Repertory Dance Ensemble’s excerpts of Paquita and Giselle and guesting as the Sugarplum Fairy at Adagio Ballet. Notably, Liljestrand performed at the Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center in Moveius Contemporary Ballet’s Rite of Spring, Crash of Fall and in their San Francisco tour of Glacier, which was an affiliate event of the Global Climate Action Summit 2018. Most recently, Liljestrand returned to Ballet Repertory Theatre of New Mexico to guest as Titania in Celia Dale’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Liljestrand is excited to join The Tallahassee Ballet as both a company dancer and teacher this upcoming year.
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DANCERS
Christopher Miller began performing around the age of 10. He attended the dance program at Santa Fe College in Gainesville, FL and later transferred to the Florida State University School of Dance. Miller’s on stage career is not limited to classical ballet. He has performed in musicals, such as West Side Story, and even spent a year and a half in a hip hop crew called The Levitations. In the future, Chris envisions dance as a vehicle to travel, meet new people, and gain even more diverse life experiences.
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2020-2021 DONORS HONORARY
prima: Kathryn Karrh Cashin; Jim and Lisa Graganella prinCipal: Nancy Carroll & Stuart Abbey; Adele Cunningham SoloiSt: Gregory & Kali Iseman; Katie Pernell
Len & Marcia Taliaferro
Demi-SoloiSt
Barbara L. Aguirre Fred & Sarah Burns Blaine & Nancy Click Eden Desotell Chris & Alli Ginn Linda Ginn
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Family
Jimmy & Mia Minton
Joanna Piris
Jessica Ranjbari
Dr. Kenya Rich
Jonathan Waters
Khanty Xayabouth & Thomas Morton
CorpS De Ballet
Daniel & Shelby Augustyniak
Kasia Chodyla Betsy Couch Brooke Kennerly Trina Searcy Richard & Mary Thiry
apprentiCe
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EVERYTHING IN THE UNIVERSE HAS A RHYTHM,
—Maya Angelou
THE RHYTHM OF LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL
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