Bio

I recently retired from a seven-year dance career with the New York City Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet. I became an apprentice with NYCB at age seventeen and shortly thereafter joined the company, performing its rich and vast repertoire. My performed roles include over one hundred choreographies by George Balanchine, as well as ballets by Jerome Robbins, Peter Martins, Christopher Wheeldon, Alexei Ratmansky, and Benjamin Millepied. I also toured with NYCB, performing in China, Japan, Germany, Denmark, Saratoga Springs (New York), and in Washington, DC at the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Prior to joining NYCB, my formal ballet training included three years of study at the School of American Ballet (New York), two years at the Berrend Dance Center (Maryland), and one year at the Washington School of Ballet (Washington, DC), as well as summer intensives at the Pacific Northwest Ballet, Exploring Ballet with Suzanne Farrell, San Francisco Ballet, Atlanta Ballet, and the Washington School of Ballet. 

Additionally, I individually trained under Shirley Bennett (Washington School of Ballet & Atlanta Ballet), Christina Fagundes (ABT), Elizabeth Carroll (ABT), Barbara Walczak (NYCB), Wilhelm Burman (NYCB), Charla Genn, and Finis Jung.

Cross training has been an integral part of my dance career. Among my fitness regimes, I have practiced Gyrotonics for 7 years, and Pilates for the last 11 years. I am also in the process of being certified as an instructor for ChaiseFitness.

My modeling experience includes sports, fitness wear and apparatus, and ballet wear and technique.

I currently live in New York City and attend Columbia University.