Chelsea Ainsworth, originally from North Carolina is a senior dancer at the Juilliard School. Her dance training began at the age of 8 at Pierrette Sadler Dancers where she studied Jazz, Ballet, Tap, and Modern dance for competition dancing. After many competitions she was accepted into the North Carolina School of the Arts in high school as a ballet major. She participated in Youth America Grand Prix in the 2003-2004 and 2005 years and won first place in the contemporary category...(click to read more about Chelsea)
Emily Erickson, 17, is a high school senior at The Professional Children's School in New York City and a native New Yorker. Although she currently lives in northern New Jersey with her family, Emily commutes into New York daily to attend school and to dance as a trainee at the Joffrey Ballet School. She has studied classical ballet for more than ten years and made her stage debut as Thumbelina at the tender age of three!...(click to read more about Emily)
Glenna Clifton, originally from Wayne, Pennsylvania, is currently completing a double major in dance and physics and minor in chemistry at Barnard College. Throughout her childhood, she trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of Ballet, with Margarita DeSaá and John White, and at the Novak and Kovalska Academy of Ballet, with Edmund Novak. She attended several summer ballet intensives including Kaatsbaan Extreme Ballet, the Boston Ballet, the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts, and the Kirov Academy of Ballet...(click to read more about Glenna)
Marquet K. Lee began his dance training at John S. Davidson Fine Arts Magnet School (DFA) in Augusta, GA at the age of twelve under the direction of Renee Toole. In addition to his training at DFA, he trained at Cutno Dance mentored by Ferneasa Cutno and Thomas and Sarah Shoemaker. He would continue to train at such institutions as The Augusta Ballet, LINES ballet, Hubbard Street, and The Ailey School where he is currently pursuing a BFA from the Ailey/Fordham BFA Program...(click to read more about Marquet)
Sarah Beth Haarmann hails from the small town of Macungie, Pennsylvania. Although she has been on her toes since the age of three and studied with many local dance studios, she attributes her greatest artistic growth to her experience in high school. In 2008, Sarah graduated with honors from The Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Performing Arts. Under the guidance of Kim Maniscalco, Sarah was given great opportunities and performed in numerous dance concerts...(click to read more about Sarah)