Carolina Ballet is made up of a company of 29 professional dancers, seven apprentices and two trainees from around the world. Artistic director Robert Weiss calls the company a virtual mini-United Nations with 13 different nationalities being represented. Aside from the United States, these countries are Moldavia, Hungary, Cuba, Uruguay, Canada, China, Paraguay, Russia, the Ukraine, France, Australia, and Romania where one of the ballet masters is a very famous former dancer. In our first decade, Carolina Ballet grew from 20 dancers to the current company of 38 dancers.


 

Principals

Attila Bongar
Timour Bourtasenkov
Gabor Kapin
Alain Molina
Pablo Javier Perez
Melissa Podcasy
Margaret Severin-Hansen
Lilyan Vigo Ellis


First Soloists

Margot K. Martin
Marcelo Martinez
Dameon Nagel
Wei Ni
Lara O'Brien
Hong Yang

Second Soloists

Eugene C. Barnes III
Jan Burkhard
Richard Krusch
Randi Osetek
Lindsay Purrington
Erica Sabatini

Company

Oliver Beres
Adam Chavis
Alicia Fabry
Elice McKinley
Adam Schiffer
Yevgeny Shlapko
Nikolai Smirnov
Barbara Toth
Martin Vignolo



Apprentices

Sean Armstrong
Taisha Barton-Rowledge
Lola Cooper
Malea Grubb
Ashley Hathaway
Cecilia Iliesiu
Sarah Newton

Trainees

Elizabeth Ousley
Elena Shapiro







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