Carolina Ballet
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Carolina Ballet is a ballet company
Ballet company
A ballet company is a group of dancers who perform ballet, plus managerial and support staff. Most major ballet companies employ dancers on a year-round basis, except in the United States, where contracts for part of the year are the norm...

 founded in 1997 which performs primarily in Raleigh
Raleigh, North Carolina
Raleigh is the capital and the second largest city in the state of North Carolina as well as the seat of Wake County. Raleigh is known as the "City of Oaks" for its many oak trees. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city's 2010 population was 403,892, over an area of , making Raleigh...

, North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...

 and throughout the state. It has toured to New York City, Hungary and China. Robert Weiss
Robert Weiss (choreographer)
Robert Weiss is an American ballet dancer, choreographer, and Artistic Director of Carolina Ballet. He began his professional career at age 17 joining the New York City Ballet under George Balanchine, eventually becoming a Principal Dancer. Balanchine created several roles for him, including Ballo...

, the artistic director
Artistic director
An artistic director is the executive of an arts organization, particularly in a theatre company, that handles the organization's artistic direction. He or she is generally a producer and director, but not in the sense of a mogul, since the organization is generally a non-profit organization...

, danced for George Balanchine
George Balanchine
George Balanchine , born Giorgi Balanchivadze in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to a Georgian father and a Russian mother, was one of the 20th century's most famous choreographers, a developer of ballet in the United States, co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet...

 for sixteen years at New York City Ballet and attained the rank of principal dancer. Lynne Taylor-Corbett
Lynne Taylor-Corbett
Lynne Taylor-Corbett is a choreographer, director, lyricist, and composer. She was born in Denver, Colorado.She works in theatre and film, and also choreographs for dance companies, both ballet and modern, and is the principal guest choreographer for Carolina Ballet...

 is principal guest choreographer. One of Carolina Ballet's most popular performances, The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto is adapted from E.T.A. Hoffmann's story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King". It was given its première at the Mariinsky Theatre in St...

, is performed annually. Carolina Ballet currently has about 35 dancers.

Notable productions

  • Handel's Messiah, choreography by Robert Weiss
    Robert Weiss (choreographer)
    Robert Weiss is an American ballet dancer, choreographer, and Artistic Director of Carolina Ballet. He began his professional career at age 17 joining the New York City Ballet under George Balanchine, eventually becoming a Principal Dancer. Balanchine created several roles for him, including Ballo...

    , premiering in 1998
  • Beethoven, Janáček, J. Mark Scearce The Kreutzer Sonata
    The Kreutzer Sonata
    The Kreutzer Sonata is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1889 and promptly censored by the Russian authorities. The work is an argument for the ideal of sexual abstinence and an in-depth first-person description of jealous rage...

    , based on the Tolstoy novella, 2000
  • Carl Orff, Carmina Burana
    Carmina Burana (Orff)
    Carmina Burana is a scenic cantata composed by Carl Orff in 1935 and 1936. It is based on 24 of the poems found in the medieval collection Carmina Burana...

    , choreography by Lynne Taylor-Corbett
    Lynne Taylor-Corbett
    Lynne Taylor-Corbett is a choreographer, director, lyricist, and composer. She was born in Denver, Colorado.She works in theatre and film, and also choreographs for dance companies, both ballet and modern, and is the principal guest choreographer for Carolina Ballet...

    , first performed in 2001
  • Poulenc, Debussy, Chausson Monet Impressions, 2006
  • Paul Moravec, Tempest Fantasy, based on William Shakespeare's The Tempest
    The Tempest
    The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–11, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set on a remote island, where Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place,...

    , 2007

Principals

  • Attila Bongar
  • Timour Bourtasenkov
  • Jan Burkhard

  • Gabor Kapin
  • Alain Molina
  • Pablo Javier Perez

  • Melissa Podcasy
  • Lara O'Brien
  • Margaret Severin-Hansen
  • Lilyan Vigo Ellis

First soloists

  • Richard Krusch
  • Marcelo Martinez
  • Dameon Nagel


  • Hong Yang
  • Lindsay Purrington


Second soloists

  • Eugene C. Barnes III
  • Alicia Fabry

  • Randi Osetek
  • Erica Sabatini

  • Nikolai Smirnov
  • Yevgeny Shlapko


Company

  • Sean Armstrong
  • Taisha Barton-Rowledge
  • Oliver Beres
  • Adam Chavis


  • Lola Cooper
  • Ashley Hathaway
  • Cecilia Iliesiu
  • Zalman Grindberg


  • Malea Grubb
  • Elice McKinley
  • Sarah Newton
  • Elizabeth Ousley


  • Sokvannara Sar
  • Adam Schiffer
  • Barbara Toth
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