Thierry Blannchard

Thierry Blannchard began his dance training at the age of eight in Sao Paulo, Brazil at Elizandra Bellotto School and, subsequently, the Bolshoi Theatre School in Brazil with Galina Kravchenko, Vladimir Vasiliev, Dennys Nevidommy, Pedro Carneiro and Rostlav Dzabraev. Thierry’s classical repertoire includes roles in “The Nutcracker”, “Don Quixote”, “Raymonda”, “Swan Lake” and others. He also danced in contemporary ballets by choreographers such as Cassi Abranches (Grupo Corpo), Binho Pacheco, Carol Segurado and Amarildo Cassiano. Thierry was a third-place finalist at the Youth American Grand Prix in Brazil and traveled to NY to paraticipate in the finals. Prior to joining Eglevsky Ballet, Thierry was a member of the Basileu Franca Junior Company in Goiania, Brazil.

Kylie Fox's

Originally from Iowa, Kylie Fox’s training includes full scholarships to The Pointe Academy, CPYB, and a year of tutelage with Basil Thompson, Jeffrey Bullock, and Jim Vincent. Kylie then went on to receive private training and mentoring from Karin Averty. During her time with Ms. Averty, Kylie attended company classes with Ballet Hispanico. Professionally, Ms. Fox has worked with many companies including Armada Dance Company, Ballet des Ameriques/Carole Alexis Ballet Theatre, Neville Dance Theater, Benjamin Briones Ballet, Vine Street Ballet, City Dance NY, Connecticut Ballet and Albano Ballet. She’s performed original works by choreogra-phers including Royce Zackery, Ursula Verduzco and Nadia Vostrikov. Kylie has danced in the Periapsis Open Series, CounterPointe, Dance Parade NYC (Main Stage), Brooklyn Dance Gala; and Liberty Hall, Brookyln Bridge, and Higher Ground Dance Festivals. A career highlight of Ms. Fox’s was being the first African-American principal guest artist to dance as “The Sugarplum Fairy” for Iowa Dance Theater’s annual “The Nutcracker”. In 2021, Ms. Fox had the privilege of being featured as a ballerina in New Yorker Magazine for an illustrated series by Jenny Kroik. Outside of dance, Kylie has choreographed new works for festivals, benefits, and academies. As a singer/actor Kylie has played lead and principal roles in Off-Broadway plays, independent films, TV shows, and national and international commercials.

Briana Laman

Briana Laman grew up in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and trained with Laszlo Berdo and Leslie-Hench. After spending one year as a dance performance major at SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance, she moved to Charlotte, North Carolina to be a trainee with Charlotte Ballet. While at Charlotte Ballet she worked with the legendary Patricia McBride and performed in Balanchine’s Donizetti Variations, Who Cares, and Raymonda Variations. She also performed in the Odalisque Pas de Trois from Le Corsaire and in Jean Pierre Bonnefoux’s The Nutcracker. This past summer she was an apprentice with Terpiscorps Theatre of Dance and performed in Heather Malloy’s Vampyre. This is Briana’s first season dancing with Eglevsly Ballet and she is very excited to begin her professional career with the company.

Ethan Schweitzer-Gaslin

Ethan Schweitzer-Gaslin is a New York City based freelance dance artist from Western Massa¬chusetts. He began studying ballet at age 5 at Amherst Ballet, then trained on scholarship at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and at summer programs around the country. After graduating from the UNCSA high school program, he spent 2 years as an apprentice with Oregon Ballet Theatre and 8 years as a Company Artist at Ballet Idaho. He has also been appearing with Arc Dance Company in Seattle since 2015 and with Project Flux Dance in Boise since 2018. He has been a semi-final Silver and Bronze medalist and a two-time finalist at Youth America Grand Prix, and has appeared at the Men In Dance Festival, the Sweet Pea Festival, and Treefort Music Festival. Ethan is known for performances in the roles of Peter Pan and the Nutcracker Prince, and in works by choreographers including George Balanchine, Alejandro Cerrudo, Edwaard Liang, Penny Saunders, Alex Ketley, Marie Chong, Peter Anastos, Daniel Ojeda, Lauren Edson and Anne Mueller. He has choreographed for dancers from Boston Ballet School, Houston Ballet II, Oregon Ballet Theatre, Northwest Dance Theatre, and Ballet Idaho. He has been an instructor for Ballet Idaho’s Learning Through Dance outreach program and the Project Flux Dance community class program, and a guest instructor at Ballet Idaho Academy, Idaho Fine Arts Academy, Northwest Dance Theatre and Amherst Ballet.

Courtney Renee Cochran

Courtney Renee Cochran is a NYC-based dancer, teacher, and choreographer. Born in Sacra-mento, CA, she received her training from Crocket-Deane Ballet, Sacramento Ballet, Lines Ballet, Alvin Ailey, Ballet X, and Dance Theatre of Harlem. Courtney has spent six seasons with Brooklyn Ballet and has been a guest artist with companies such as The Black Iris Project, Collage Dance Collective, Columbia City Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem, and starred as “Puck” in Sierra Nevada Ballet’s A Midsummer’s Night Dream.

As a choreographer, she has presented work in Brooklyn Ballet’s First Look programs, Norte Maar’s Counter Pointe program, and Dance Theatre of Harlem’s Sunday Matinee series. In 2019, Courtney was nominated for Dance Lab New York’s collaboration with The Joyce Theatre where her work was featured at Works & Process at the Guggenheim. Most recently, she created a piece for Works & Process Artists Virtual Commission Series entitled From cage of teeth and jaw, which was awarded “Best Solo Performance” in Earl Mosley’s Dance is Activism Film Festival in 2021. As an educator, Courtney has taught at Brooklyn Ballet, The Billie Holiday Theatre, Dance Theatre of Harlem, and Harlem School of the Arts. After completing her ABT NTC certification, Courtney joined the faculty of the JKO School at ABT in the fall of 2021.

Sasha Gologorskaya

Sasha Gologorskaya was born in Kiev, Ukraine and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She trained at the San Francisco Ballet School and later went on to study at the Conservatory of Dance at SUNY Purchase, graduating summa cum laude with a BFA in Dance and a concentra¬tion in Ballet Performance. She has attended intensive programs around the United States and abroad, including Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance, Arts Umbrella Dance, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and Springboard Danse Montreal. Sasha has performed repertory by Greg Amato, Marika Brussel, Marco Geocke, Margo Sappington, Bettijane Sills, Michelle Thompson-Ulerich, Norbert de la Cruz, Merce Cunningham, and George Balanchine, and has danced in theaters from San Francisco to New York to Hong Kong. During her senior year at Purchase, Sasha was featured in the NY Times for performances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, where she danced in Luca Veggetti’s reimagined version of Jerome Robbins’ Watermill. Sasha was a featured artist with Peninsula Ballet Theatre in their productions of The Nutcracker, Guys and Dolls, and Cinderella. She has also been a part of several creations with em(body) dance project and choreographer Marika Brussel, including the world premiere of Brussel’s dance film House of Names.

Omar Rodriguez

Omar Rodriguez was born in Mexico. He began his professional dance studies in Mexico City’s National Dance School for Classical and Contemporary Dance, where he graduated in 2018. He completed his apprenticeship at Mexico’s National Dance Company, participating as a dancer in The Nutcracker, Cinderella, Giselle, Don Quixote, Manon and Swan Lake. Omar was a company dancer with Virginia National Ballet, where he performed Aladdin, Carmen and contemporary repertoire. He then moved to NY, where he joined the New York Dance Project performing Birthday Variations and Confetti by Gerald Arpino in venues throughout New York City. He has also worked as a demi-soloist with Brooklyn Ballet for The Nutcracker staged on King’s Theatre.

Elisabeth Shim

A native of Long Island, Elisabeth Shim is an alumnus of the Pre-Professional Training Program at Eglevsky Ballet. A 2022 BFA graduate of the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, Elisabeth obtained her Bachelors in Science in Ballet, under the direction of Kyra Nichols. Additional teachers at IU included Michael Vernon, Carla Korbes, Sarah Wroth, Sasha Janes, and Christian Claessens. While there, she was featured in “Donizetti Variations” by George Balanchine and “Pas de Sept (A Folktale)” by August Bournonville. Additionally, during her time at Indiana University Elisabeth worked towards an outside field-study in Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management, with a minor in marketing from the Kelley School of Business.

Mari Takayama

Mari Takayama was born in Japan. She received a scholarship and graduated from Senzoku Gakuen College of Music in Japan, with a concentration in ballet. While in college, she also organized and choreographed performances. Additionally, Mari participated in various summer and winter intensives such as American Ballet Theatre (ABT), Miami City Ballet, American Academy of Ballet in NY, Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington D.C., and Bolshoi Ballet Acade-my, and London Studio Center. Most recently, Mari performed with American Repertory Ballet as a Trainee for their 2020-2021 season. She also performed the role of “Clara” in the ARB production of The Nutcracker.