The Canton Ballet

Alumni

 

 

2006 Hoover High grad Zachary Catazaro Clark, son of SCB faculty member Jennifer Catazaro Hayward and member of  New York City Ballet's corps de ballet made his debut as the Sugar Plum Fairy Cavalier with NYCB in 2010.  Photo © Paul Kolnik

                         

Kelly Yankle a 2004 Central Catholic High grad is a member of Ballet Met after eight years with Cincinnati Ballet.  She received her degree from the College Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dillon Shifferly 2006 McKinley grad,has danced with Ballet Puerto Rico, Dayton Ballet, North Carolina Dance Theatre and Cleveland's Verb dance company.

 

 

2004 Hoover High grad Noelle Lelakus danced with Missouri Contemporary Ballet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1992 Grad Bliss Kohlmeyer is working on her MFA in Dance at the University of Washington in Seattle and performs with the UW Chamber Dance Company.               

 

 

 


                             

 

Ashley Spencer is headed back to Broadway in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert after starring as “Sandy” in Grease

and in Hairspray on Broadway. Ashley was a popular finalist for the role of Sandy on the NBC talent competition series Grease: You’re the One That I Want.

                          

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Heather Hendrix, 2001, has made a career of her belly dancing passion and is known as Serena with Sherena's Art In Motion Dance Studio.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kristin Hare Hasty, 2002 Schenley High in Pittsburgh and 2007 Liberty University grad is the program & company director/administrator for Assemble' Dance Studio in Lynchburg, Virginia.


 

 

1987 Grad Kelly Moriarty lives in Paris and teaches Pilates after a 20 year career with Pennsylvania Ballet.

                           

Amanda Kloots, a 2000 high school grad has been on two Broadway National Tours, a Rockette at Radio City Music Hall and performed on Broadway in Good Vibrations, Spamalot and other shows.

                                                           

 

 

 

Toby George,1999, danced with Royal Winnipeg Ballet and OhioBallet, before working on computer programming and attending University of Akron.


                                                            

 

 

 

Alicia Cutler Pitts, 1998 Wooster High grad and a long time principal dancer with OhioBallet is the proud mother of two young children.

 

Julie Gedalecia, 1993 Wooster High graduate, is the coartistic director of Saratoga City Ballet.

Jeanne Morehart Mahaffey is the former owner and director of Avondale Dance Center in Canton.

Christy Montuoro Donnelly, 1991 lives in Canton with her family.  A paralegal and former member of Canton Ballet's board of directors, Christy has twice co-chaired the Nutcracker Ball and plans to attend law school.

           

 

Tariq Hunter, 2002 Mckinley High, now happily married, works for the Air Force in New Mexico and hopes to become a pilot.

Allison Campbell, 2003 is a dancer in Columbia, South Carolina.

                       

Tricia Jenkins Meyer, 1990 Perry High, is the artistic director for Wooster’s Wayne Center Ballet.

 

Mara George Schwendiman (left), 2002 formerly a member of Colorado Ballet, is the artistic director of Living Fountain Dance Company in Canton.  Making a mirror image is sister Rachel George Norman, 1997.

 

 

 




                               

Tommie Jenkins (stage name Tee Jaye), a 1984 Timken grad, lives in London and performs in the West End. A multitalented artist he recently filmed a movie with Cameron Diez and performed on Broadway in Jersey Boys.

 

2008 grad Joy Raub danced with Ballet Magnificat in Jackson, Mississippi. 2011 Alum Ethan Lee danced with Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School.

 

 

Anita Artzner, 1995 McKinley and 1999 Wright State University grad, is the owner and operator of the Pilates studio, Building Balanced Bodies with Anita in Canton.

 

Ashley Bettis, 2002 is a free lance choreographer who lives in Germany.

 

           

Nicole Salvo, 2005 Central Catholic grad, is a student at Chicago's Columbia University.

 

Lauren Engleman, a 2000 GlenOak grad, danced at Kennedy Center in a Washington National Opera production of Bizet's "The Pearl Fisher” and performs with two modern-dance companies.

 

 

Laura Spangler Mead, 1998 a research biologist, lives in Canton with her family.  Her daughter Molly dances at Canton Ballet.

Anne Shaheen, 1986 Jackson grad and former principal dancer with OhioBallet is a gynocologist in Pittsburgh, PA.

Susan Shaheen Warner, 1984 Jackson grad is an attorney who lives with her family in Cleveland, OH.

Andrea Vinci White, 1986 lives with her family near Sacramento, California and works for Apple Computer.

Margot Greenlee, 1981 lives in Washington, D.C. and dances with the Liz Lerman Dance Company.

Amy Junemann Diamond, 1987 lives in New York City with her husband and children.