BalletMet

BalletMet
General information
Name BalletMet
Previous names Ballet Metropolitan
Founder Daryl Kamer
Website balletmet.org
Senior staff
Executive Director Sue Porter
Artistic staff
Artistic Director Edwaard Liang
Ballet Master Hisham Omardien
Ballet Mistress Susan Dromisky
Other
Orchestra Columbus Symphony Orchestra
Official school BalletMet Academy

BalletMet is an American ballet company based in Columbus, Ohio. It is also known as BalletMet Columbus.[1]

The current company came into existence in July 1978, with a $200,000 grant from the Battelle Memorial Institute Foundation. At that time it consisted of three staff and 12 dancers, and soon hired Wayne Soulant as its first artistic director. By 1997, the company had expanded to 25 dancers.[2]

Artistic directors

  • Wayne Soulant (1978–86)
  • John McFall (1986–94)
  • David Nixon (1995–2001)
  • Gerard Charles (2001–12)
  • Edwaard Liang (2013–present)

Dancers

BalletMet's current company consists of the following dancers:[3]

  • Miguel Anaya
  • Adrienne Benz
  • Attila Bongar
  • Jessica Brown
  • Andres Estevez
  • Romel Frometa
  • Arielle Friedman
  • Emily Gotschall
  • Rachael Jones
  • Kohhei Kuwana
  • Kristie Latham
  • Bethany Lee
  • Austin Moholt-Siebert
  • Grace-Anne Powers
  • Jarrett Reimers
  • Sarah Reimold
  • Martin Roosaare
  • Lisset Santander
  • Michael Sayre
  • Gabriel Gaffney Smith
  • Caitlin Valentine-Ellis
  • David Ward
  • Carly Wheaton
  • Karen Wing
  • Sarah Wolff

References

  1. "Home Page". BalletMet. Retrieved February 26, 2012.
  2. Zuck, Barbara (January 1998). "BalletMet: a renaissance in Ohio". Dance Magazine. Retrieved February 26, 2012.
  3. "Company Members". Retrieved August 28, 2016.

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