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Artists of the Company Rebecca Kelly, Choreographer Emily SoRelle Adams Mo na Afable Robin Cantrell Uthman Ebrahim Raul Peinado Therese Wendler Royce Zackery Affiliated Artists: Kathryn Albarelli, Sean Scantlebury Julie Hebb, KCM Instructors: Sharyn Korey, Michelle Wurf 25th Anniversary Season Gerald Lynch Theatre, New York City GUEST ARTISTS Duncan Cooper Principal Dancer, Dance Theater of Harlem Jared Matthews American Ballet Theater, Corps de Ballet Pointe Magazine May 2005 Profile	Contact Us \| Site Index \| Home About RKB and the Environment	About RKB Artistic Director/ Choreographer Auditions Board of Directors Touring Performance Schedule Photo Gallery Repertory E-Media Kit - 4pgs RKB Guest Artists - Nutcracker Commission a Ballet Photographs: Rhyder McClure, Todd Bissonette Adrian Buckmaster Rebecca Kelly All are under copyright
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	EMILY ADAMS trained at he Kirov Academy in Washington, D.C. the Baltimore School for the Arts, the Washington School of Ballet, and the Rock School of PA Ballet. She attended S.M.U. Meadows School of the Arts. She has danced for Ballet Austin, the Washington Ballet, and Connecticut Ballet. Emily has appeared in principal roles in Kelly's ballets since 2004 in A Fine Line, Mr. Wonderful, Reves, The Travelers, Drums, Air, Spice, and Jibun Jishin. She originated the role of Micaela and Fortune in Kelly's Jose's Dream. She has taught for RKB's youth program, in New York City and in upstate NY.	EMILY SORELLE ADAMS
	MONA AFABLE was trained at the Philippine High School for the Arts Ballet Philippines. She danced with the Louisville Ballet, Peoria Ballet, Ontario Ballet Theater, and Burklyn Ballet Theatre where she was Resident Choreographer. In 2005, she participated in the Alonzo King's LINES Ballet Professional Workshop. She performs with the Metropolitan Opera and Tina Croll and Company. She first performed with RKB at the 25th Anniversary Season in March 2006. Her RKB repertory includes Silver Circles, Jibun Jishin, Drums, Waiting for Mr. Wonderful, The Travelers and Waters. Mona teaches in RKB's Intensives program.	MONA AFABLE
	ROBIN CANTRELL from St. Paul Minnesota, received her training at Midwest Youth Dance Theatre. She holds a BFA from the University of Utah in ballet performance, and a degree in anthropology. Robin danced for City Ballet of San Diego, where she performed in a number of Balanchine ballets, including the lead violin in Concerto Baroquo. Robin has danced with Ballet Deviare and Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre, and currently dances for Battery Dance Company. She is experimenting with site specific dance films and working on her worldwide outreach project, TCDC. She joined RKB in 2008. Her repetoire includes Writing in Water and Tear of the Clouds.	ROBIN CANTRELL
	UTHMAN EBRAHIM joined RKB in 2007. Trained in acting and contemporary dance at the North Carolina School of the Arts, he received a BFA in 2006. Uthman has performed and toured with Cedar Lake Ensemble II, of Columbia, OH, and appeared with Washington Reflections Dance Company. Uthman originates a principal role in the duet Earth, from Kelly's Adirondack Elemental He appears in the restaging of Kelly's 1989 environmental ballet, Tear of the Clouds, Spice, and Long Time Passing.	UTHMAN EBRAHIM
	RAUL PEINADO from Madrid, Spain trained at Victor Ullate School and The Catedra Alicia Alonso Raul studied with Master Ullate, Christina Alverez and Juana Taft. He has performed with the Cuban National Ballet as a guest. the Joffrey Ballet Ensemble, and Peridance Ensemble, Eglevsky Ballet, Gwinnet Ballet Theater, Ruth Michel Dance Theater, Andalusia Ballet, South West Virginia Ballet, Mobile Ballet, and Configuration Dance in USA, and with the Fukuoka International Ballet in Japan. 2007 marks his first season with Rebecca Kelly Ballet. His repetoire includes Air, Long Time Passing, Tear of the Clouds, and Spice.	RAUL PEINADO
	SEAN SCANTLEBURY is a native of Barbados. He trained with Richard Thomas, Christine Sarry and Daniel Levans at New York City Public School for Dance and joined Eliot Feld's Ballet Tech, with which he performed throughout the U.S. He has been a member of Battery Dance Company since 2003, and with them has performed and taught in New York, Poland, Morocco, Tunisia, Israel, Jordan, Vietnam, Malaysia and Australia. He is Battery's teaching artist at P.S. 257 in Brooklyn. He has also served as a guest ballet teacher with Dance Theatre of Harlem. 2009 is his first season with Rebecca Kelly Ballet.
	THERESE WENDLER from Honolulu, Hawaii, trained in Phoenix, AZ with Nina Marlow, and The Joffrey Ballet in NYC. She has since worked with Ballet Metropolitan of Caracas, Venezuela, Ballet International, Ballet Hawaii, Victoria Ballet Theatre, Connecticut Ballet, Ballet Jorgen Canada, and Frances Patrelle and Mathew Brookoff. Therese joined RKB in 2003. Her RKB repertory includes principal roles in the original cast of Jose's Dream, Silver Circles, and Air, along with Reves, Spice Suite, Drums, The Travelers, Jibun Jishin, Those Who Must Be Kept, and Waters. Therese teaches in RKB Intensives and the Variations Coaching Program.	THERESE WENDLER
	ROYCE ZACKERY, a native of Atlanta, GA, got his BFA from Southern Methodist University. He later joined the musical circuit performing My One and Only, and Oklahoma! He spent the year 2000 in Stuttgart. Royce has worked with Thomas/ Ortiz Dance Theater, Pascal Rioult Dance Theater, Ballethnic Dance Company, and Kate Thomas. He joins Rebecca Kelly Ballet for the Spring Summer tour 2007. He originated a principal role in the duet Earth from Kelly's Adirondack Elemental. He appears in the restaging of Kelly's 1989 environmental ballet, Tear of the Clouds, Spice Suite, and the new work Long Time Passing.	ROYCE ZACKERY
	GUEST ARTISTS Alumniaand Friends
		Nathan Bland Giorgia Bovo Khiara Bridges Jonathan Collins Elysia Dawn Erin Ginn David Guggino Jean Paul, Jr. Indre Vengris (left in Jibun Jishin)
Guest Artist: JARED MATTHEWS Soloist, American Ballet Theater (left), from Houston, After being a member of ABT's Studio Company, Mr. Matthews joinedthe corps de ballet of ABT in April 2003. His repertoire with ABT includes the Neapolitan Dance in Swan Lake, leading roles in Sechs Tanze, Petite Mort, Sinfonietta, Symphonic Variations, and a featured role in HereAfter. Jared Matthews was a featured dancer in Kelly's ballet noir THE TRAVELERS for RKB 25th Anniversary season.	Alumni ALEXANDER FORSYTHE from Hungary, graduated from the Dance Academy in Budapest. He danced in principal roles for Rebecca Kelly Ballet from 2000 to 2007. His repertoire includes Rising into Light, Telemann, Wilderness Suite Ballet, Dream Driven, Drums, A Fine Line of True Togetherness, Trouve Moi, Those Who Must Be Kept, The Travelers, Waiting for Mr. Wonderful, Reves, and his showstopper solo variation, Paprika, in Spice Suite. He was cast as the lead, Don Jose in Kelly's Carmen: Jose's Dream.	Guest Artist: DUNCAN COOPER, former Principal Dancer, Dance Theater of Harlem. (right) from New York City and San Francisco. Mr. Cooper joined Dance Theater of Harlem in 1995. He trained with San Francisco Ballet School and the School of New York City Ballet. His repertoire covers leading roles in Balanchine's Apollo, Prodigal Son, Agon, Allegro Brilliante, Albrecht in Giselle, Fancy Free, Thais, and El Capitan in Stars & Stripes in NYCB's Balanchine Centennial Celebration. Duncan Cooper was a principal dancer partnering Therese Wendler for SILVER CIRCLES, after the fall at RKB 25th Anniversary season,
	KATHRYN ALBARELLI from Alexandria, Virginia, trained at Arlington Center for Dance. She has a BFA in dance from Florida State University. She has performed with the Suzanne Farrell Ballet, The Metropolitan Opera Ballet, the Pennsylvania Ballet, Center Dance Company, Bodigraphy Contemporary Ballet, and Lydia Johnson Dance. Musical Theater: "A Chorus Line", La Cages aux Folles" TV credits: Law and Order, Criminal Intent, All My Children, The Sopranos. Movie credits: Out of Control, The Eleventh Hour. Kate joined RKB for its 2004 summer season and 2005 Sourth Carolina tour. Her RKB repertory includes A Fine Line, Reves, The Travelers, and Silver Circles.
	JULIE HEBB Choreography Assistant in Staging RKB Repertory, received her training with the Boston Ballet and Hartford Ballet Ensemble. She performed in principal roles for Rebecca Kelly Ballet from 1992 to 2003. Among her extensive RKB repertory are original and lead roles in Undercurrents, Dream Driven, Telemann, Drums, Trouve Moi, Rising into Light, Boundaries, Yellowstone, Those Who Must Be Kept, Pour Cinq, and Spice. Ms. Hebb holds a BS degree from CUNYBA, in Mind and Movement Studies, combining psychology and exercise science.
MICHELLE WURF	SHARYN KOREY, Instructor in RKB's Early Childhood Dance Program, Kids Co-Motion. (pictured right) Sharyn holds a BA in International Studies from Middlebury College and is fluent in Spanish. She previously danced with Richmond Ballet. She also teaches ballet at the Logrea Dance Academy in Ossining. Sharyn has engaged in several activist projects exploring sustainable environmental solutions. MICHELLE WURF Senior Instructor, Kids Co-Motion. (pictured left) Michelle trained in dance at NYU, and received her BFA in modern dance from University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She danced professionally in NYC in the 1990's. She has been teaching for KCM since 1994 and is currently Director of the Westchester Division of Kids Co-Motion.	SHARYN KOREY
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