Bio

My international career as a principal dancer spanned the San Francisco Ballet, the Stuttgart Ballet and the Birmingham Royal Ballet.  I have worked with some of the 20th century’s most significant choreographers of our time such as Jiri Kylian, William Forsythe, Maurice Bejart, Glen Tetley, Sir Peter Wright, Hans Van Manen, David Bintely and Wayne McGregor, as well as performed principal roles in works by John Cranko, Sir Kenneth MacMillan, George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Sir Frederick Ashton, Helgi Tomasson and Michael Smuin. My classical repertoire included principal roles in Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet, Nutcracker, Giselle, Coppelia and Grand Pas Classique, among others. My contemporary roles included the Table Solo in Bolero, Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute, Sonata a Trois, Stepping Stones, the Mother in Le Sacre du Printemps, My Brother, My Sisters, the Woman in Song of the Earth and the Pas de Deux from In the Middle Somewhat Elevated, among others. I performed principal roles in the televised performance of Cinderella with San Francisco Ballet in 1985 and Giselle with the Stuttgart Ballet in 1993. Taking part in the prestigious international competition of Varna in 1983 and in Helsinki in 1992, I placed sixth.

In 2001, I co-founded Configuration Dance, a project based company that showcased contemporary and classical ballets as well as commissioned works from established and emerging choreographers, and co-directed it until 2008. Configuration Dance celebrated the beauty, diversity and power of dance by bringing in artists from different backgrounds to dance together in a  variety of styles of work. Dance Magazine called the company "...a living art gallery with an international collection." In 2004 I founded and directed the school for Configuration Dance, that worked with students of all ages as well as trained apprentices to work with the company.   

I have choreographed for the Cincinnati Ballet Academy and Cincinnati Ballet II, Configuration Dance, Portland Ballet (ME), Alberta Ballet School, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, American Academy of Ballet, Greenwich Ballet Academy and Ballet Conservatory of South Texas. She has been an invited teacher at many schools such as the Boston Ballet, San Fransisco Ballet, Indiana University, North Carolina School of the Arts, Alberta Ballet School and Walnut School for the Arts. 

In 2008 I was invited to become the Artistic Director at Ballet Conservatory of South Texas. In 2010 I was offered the position of Dean of the Cincinnati Ballet’s Otto M. Budig Academy, where I have worked for the past six years while also teaching as adjunct faculty with Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. I am currently pursuing consulting work and guest teaching at various schools and Universities across the country. 

In 2021 I was invited to become a member of the Principal Faculty and the Artistic Coordinator at the Frederick Q. Lawson Ballet West Academy.

I hold an M.A. in Dance in Education and the Community from Birmingham University, England.