Texas Dance Theatre: Natalie

Fall Mixed Rep November 12 & 13, 2010

Premieres by Bruce Wood, Wil McKnight, and Emily Hunter. Includes pieces set to Philip Glass, Samuel Barber, and Cole Porter. The paired programs, though different, will repeat featured world premieres each night.

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Natalie Bracken graduated with a BFA in Ballet and a BA in Political Science with Departmental Honors from Texas Christian University. She received her early training in Fort Worth, Texas from Gayle Corkery, Carrie Cheng, and Li-Cho Cheng. She has attended summer programs with ABT, New York City Dance Alliance and the Broadway Theatre Project. Natalie has experience in both the commercial and concert dance worlds. She has performed in many classical and contemporary pieces including George Balanchine’s Valse Fantaisie, in Stephen Mills’ Women in Light, and in Petipa’s Giselle, Swan Lake, Paquita, and Don Quixote. Natalie has also recently enjoyed working with choreographers Melissa Thodos and Christopher D’amboise on upcoming pieces. Natalie has performed as a guest dancer with Muscle Memory Dance Theater and the Festival Ballet of North Texas. Natalie also has a passion for choreography. Her work has been nominated for a Betty Buckley Award, selected to be performed in the 2007 winter Disneyland festivities, and most recently featured in Muscle Memory’s emerging choreographers program. Natalie is currently on faculty at Fort Worth Country Day School where she teaches theater and dance. This is Natalie's first season with TDT.

Texas Dance Theatre: Erin

Fall Mixed Rep November 12 & 13, 2010

Premieres by Bruce Wood, Wil McKnight, and Emily Hunter. Includes pieces set to Philip Glass, Samuel Barber, and Cole Porter. The paired programs, though different, will repeat featured world premieres each night.

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Erin Labhart began her classical ballet training with Karen and Fernando Schaffenburg here in Ft Worth, Texas. Erin has attended summer workshops with The Orlando Ballet and San Francisco Ballet as well as private intensives with Paul Mejia. Erin has performed with Ballet Arlington (now Metropolitan Classical Ballet), the University of Oklahoma’s Oklahoma Festival Ballet and Ballet Concerto. This is Erin's first full season with Texas Dance Theatre. She danced in TDT's season finale last season in Wil McKnight's Webern Variations and Emily Hunter's Confugium.

Texas Dance Theatre: Jacob

Fall Mixed Rep November 12 & 13, 2010

Premieres by Bruce Wood, Wil McKnight, and Emily Hunter. Includes pieces set to Philip Glass, Samuel Barber, and Cole Porter. The paired programs, though different, will repeat featured world premieres each night.

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Jacob Sebastian has received full scholarships to the Joffrey Ballet School in New York, and the Orlando Ballet School where he trained this past summer and was invited to join Orlando Ballet II. This is Jacob's first season with Texas Dance Theatre.

Texas Dance Theatre: Emily

Fall Mixed Rep November 12 & 13, 2010

Premieres by Bruce Wood, Wil McKnight, and Emily Hunter. Includes pieces set to Philip Glass, Samuel Barber, and Cole Porter. The paired programs, though different, will repeat featured world premieres each night.

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Emily Hunter began her dance training at the age of eight under the instruction of Penny Askew at the Western Oklahoma Ballet Academy and was a performing company member of the Western Oklahoma Ballet Theatre for six years. Upon graduating high school, she attended the University of Iowa on a Dance Department scholarship, received the Francoise Martinet ballet scholarship in 2000, and graduated with a BFA in dance in 2003. While in Iowa, she was able to study technique and choreography not only with the UI faculty but also with guest teachers and choreographers such as Joan Buttram, David Capps, Nacho Duato, Miguel Gutierrez, Nicholas Leichter, Lars Lubivich, Ben Stevenson, and Twyla Tharp, among others. In addition to performing in original works by the UI Dance faculty, several works of her own choreography were selected for UI Dance presentations. Throughout her training, she has been awarded scholarships to study at summer intensive programs such as American Dance Festival, Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute, Long Beach Summer Ballet, and Regional Dance America’s Craft of Choreography Conference. These opportunities allowed her to train with renowned teachers like Patricia Barker, Thom Clower, David Dorfman, Mark Haim, Gelsey Kirkland, Jennifer Nugent, Clay Taliaferro, Edward Villella, and David Wilcox. She has performed with Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth, Dancers In Company, Duarte Dance Works, Charlotte Adams & Dancers, Push Comes to Shove, and UI Dance Company, in addition to guest artist work.

Texas Dance Theatre: Caradee

Fall Mixed Rep November 12 & 13, 2010

Premieres by Bruce Wood, Wil McKnight, and Emily Hunter. Includes pieces set to Philip Glass, Samuel Barber, and Cole Porter. The paired programs, though different, will repeat featured world premieres each night.

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Caradee Cline is a native of Texas, and a graduate of Texas Christian University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. She received her training from Svetlana Stanova and Nikolai Semikov. Upon moving to New York, she studied with Ilya and Zoya Gaft of the New York Ballet Institute. Caradee has danced with Sarasota Ballet, Montgomery Ballet, Nevada Ballet Theater and City Ballet of San Diego. At City Ballet of San Diego, Caradee was featured in Elizabeth Wistrich’s Raymonda Pas De Trois, Nutcracker, Carmina Burana, Stravinsky Suite, Balanchine’s Four Temperaments, and Serenade. She was invited by Long Beach Ballet to dance in their summer tour of China in 2009. Upon moving back to Fort Worth, she has been dancing with Ballet Concerto and is excited to be dancing her first full season with Texas Dance Theatre. She first danced with TDT in Wil McKnight's Webern Variations during its 2009-10 season.

Texas Dance Theatre: Josie

Fall Mixed Rep November 12 & 13, 2010

Premieres by Bruce Wood, Wil McKnight, and Emily Hunter. Includes pieces set to Philip Glass, Samuel Barber, and Cole Porter. The paired programs, though different, will repeat featured world premieres each night.

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Josie Baldree was born and raised in Fostoria, Michigan where she received her early training at the Flint School of Performing Arts. She attended Texas Christian University as a Nordan Fine Arts Scholar and graduated in 2006 with her BFA in Ballet and Modern Dance. During her fours years at TCU, Josie studied with dance faculty and other guest artists. She performed featured roles choreographed by Elizabeth Gillaspy, Jin Wen Yu, and Fernando Bujones. This is Josie's second season with TDT.

Texas Dance Theatre: Caradee, Jacob & Natalie

Fall Mixed Rep November 12 & 13, 2010

Premieres by Bruce Wood, Wil McKnight, and Emily Hunter. Includes pieces set to Philip Glass, Samuel Barber, and Cole Porter. The paired programs, though different, will repeat featured world premieres each night.

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Texas Dance Theatre Fall Mixed Rep 11/12 & 11/13

Premieres by Bruce Wood, Wil McKnight, and Emily Hunter. Includes pieces set to Philip Glass, Samuel Barber, and Cole Porter. The paired programs, though different, will repeat featured world premieres each night.

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Photo by Ivan Romanho