Alumni
Many former Santa Cruz Ballet Theatre dancers have continued on to professional careers in the dance field. Others have attended prestigious college and university dance departments. Examples follow . . .
Hannah Beddow
Chapman University BFA in Dance
Hayley Blackman
formerly Pennsylvania Ballet II
Doctor of Physical Therapy at Big Sky Pediatric Therapy in Austin, Texas
Caitlin Bonura
UC Santa Cruz BA in Art; former Santa Cruz Ballet Theatre board member; Cabrillo Foundation Development Department
Joshua Burnham
Manassas Ballet Theatre; formerly with Ballet Theatre of Maryland, Cincinnati Ballet
Johanna Butterworth
Administrative Assistant, San Francisco Ballet School
BFA in Dance from Boston Conservatory
Flora Chatwin
Choreographer: SC Symphony Family and Children's Concerts, Several scenes in The Nutcracker
4th year Dance major at University of California at Irvine
Creative Team and choreographed The Santa Cruz Nutcracker: Clara's Dream film
Faculty, The Studio School of Classical Ballet, summers 2021 and 2022 (Choreography)
AvaRose Dillon
Dancer with Texas Ballet Theater
Bonnie Costa
formerly with Utah Regional Ballet
Santa Clara University graduate - Communications degree
Brittany Duncan
formerly Ballet Alabama under Wes Chapman
Leila Drake
formerly:
State Street Ballet Associate Artistic Director
principal dancer State Street Ballet
Erin Duffy
formerly with Ballet San Jose
Lily Frazier-Ransom
formerly with Missouri Contemporary Ballet and Los Angeles Ballet
Samuel Fulk
Sacramento Contemporary Dance Theatre
formerly with Utah Regional Ballet
Madison Griffith
Dance major at UC Santa Barbara
Julia Halpin
Nathan Hirschaut
The Juilliard School, BFA in Dance 2020
Artistic Director, HIVE Dance Company
Alicia Houser
BFA in Dance, Muhlenberg College in Allentown PA
Creative Team, Co-Produced The Santa Cruz Nutcracker: Clara's Dream film
Jazmine Hurley
formerly Ballet West II
Jan Javier
Free-lance dancer
formerly: National Broadway Touring company of "Movin' Out," Richmond Ballet, Nashville Ballet, Luna Negra
Leah Kaplan
pursuing her degree in Physical Therapy from NYU, Pre-Med at UOP
Gabbi Kamalani
Resident at Mount Sinai Morningside West
Doctor of Medicine from Tufts University School of Medicine; undergrad degree from Stanford University
Sam Kaplan
Dance major at SUNY Purchase, NY
Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone
Assistant Editor at Dance Spirit Magazine
Kaelyn Magee
formerly with Ballet Arizona and Utah Regional Ballet
Nahshon Marden
BFA/Dance, Cornish School of the Arts
Melody Mennite
Houston Ballet, Principal dancer
Choreographer, mentor, artist
Michael Miller
works at Precision Physical Therapy in Santa Cruz
Bachelor’s in Dance Science from Cal State Long Beach
Gabriela Minden
English Literature lecturer at Cardiff University
PhD in English Literature from Oxford University
Masters in English Literature from Columbia University
Fulbright Scholar
formerly Ballet West trainee
Emerson Moose
Morgan Panitchpakdi
BS in Biochemistry and Cellular Biology from UC San Diego
Research chemist in an analytical chemistry lab at UC San Diego
Lucien Postlewaite
Principal dancer with Pacific Northwest Ballet
formerly Principal dancer with Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo
Katerina Robinson
Legislative Director for California State Senator Nancy Skinner
Founder of the Ballet Company @ UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley graduate
Emily Rose
formerly with Grand Rapids Ballet
Lucy Rudnick
Dance and Film major at Muhlenburg College, Allentown PA
Rachel Schmidt
freelance dancer in NYC
faculty of Greenwich House
Chicago Repertory Ballet
formerly DawsonDanceSF company member
formerly LINES trainee
Butler University BFA in Dance
Jeffrey Stanton
formerly: Ballet Master Oregon Ballet Theatre
Principal dancer with Pacific Northwest Ballet
San Francisco Ballet
Sarah Stein Eriksen
Co-owner and director of Boise Ballet Academy
formerly with Silicon Valley Ballet
ABT-Certified Instructor and certified Gyrotonic Method instructor
Beth Terwilleger
Artistic Director and choreographer The Grey Seattle
formerly with Ballet Austin
Natalie Thomas
formerly Nederlands Dans Theatre II and Ballet Frankfurt under William Forsythe
Asher Voorhees
Professional Division trainee at Pacific Northwest Ballet
Gabriel Williams
Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from Florida A&M University
Florida State University Tallahassee MFA/Dance.
Click HERE to see the 2014 "Nutcracker" campaign image featuring Gabe.
Formerly:
Trey McIntyre Project
Sacramento Ballet
Milwaukee Ballet
Oakland Ballet
Georgina Wilson
University of Texas at Austin BFA in Dance
Creative Team, Directed and produced The Santa Cruz Nutcracker: Clara's Dream film
Molly Winslow Hanson
formerly:
Utah Regional Ballet
Ballet San Jose trainee
Lauryn Winterhalder
Click HERE to see the 2014 "Nutcracker" campaign image featuring Lauryn
formerly dancer with Sacramento Ballet, American Contemporary Ballet
Cincinnati Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet trainee
Kaelyn Magee (above) as a student at The Studio and (below) with Utah Regional Ballet
Molly Winslow Hanson (above) in her Junior year at The Studio and (below) with Emerson Moose photographed by Ballet Zaida
Lauryn Winterhalder (above) in SCBT rehearsal and (below) photographed by Sacramento Ballet
Melody Mennite (above) guest starring in "The Nutcracker"
Lucien Postlewaite (above) guest starring in "The Nutcracker"
Photo of Gabriel Williams (above) by Kurt Sutter
Leila Drake Fossek (above) photograph courtesy of State Street Ballet
