1978: begins ballet training at age 15 with Oakland Ballet and San Francisco Ballet schools
1980: receives scholarship with Joffrey Ballet School in New York
1982: joins Joffrey Ballet
1995: appointed schedule assistant/assistant ballet master as the company relocates to Chicago
1998: promoted to ballet master
2000: spearheads development of Arpino Apprentice Program
2004: appointed with Cameron Basden as co-assistant artistic director
2005: both are promoted to associate artistic directors
Dance career includes lead roles in works by choreographers Gerald Arpino, Sir Frederick Ashton, George Balanchine, John Cranko, Robert Joffrey, Jiri Kylian, Paul Taylor. Instrumental in acquiring Ashton's full-length "Cinderella" for Joffrey Ballet.
Has appeared with The New York Metropolitan Opera Ballet, The Dallas Metropolitan Ballet and California's Diablo Ballet. Has appeared on numerous TV programs and in Robert Altman's film "The Company," which was based on The Joffrey Ballet.
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