Guest Artists

Guest Artists
Who have performed with
Colorado's Classical Youth Ballet
include:

	Stella Abrera of South Pasadena, California, began her studies with Philip and Charles Fuller and Cynthia Young at Le Studio in Pasadena. She also spent three years studying with Joan and Monica Halliday at the Halliday Dance Centre in Sydney, Australia. Prior to that she studied with Lorna Diamond and Patricia Hoffman at the West Coast Ballet Theatre in San Diego. Abrera joined American Ballet Theatre as a member of the corps de ballet in 1996. Her repertoire with ABT includes Gamzatti and a Shade in La Bayadère, the Winter Fairy in Cinderella, an Odalisque in Le Corsaire, Clair De Lune in Dancing with Monet, She Wore a Perfume in Dim Lustre, the woman in white in Diversion of Angels, Driad Queen in Don Quixote, Helena in The Dream, the first passerby in Fancy Free, Myrta and Zulma in Giselle, a principal role in Jabula, the Sugar Plum Fairy and the Arabian Dance in The Nutcracker, Queen of the Carriage Trade in Offenbach in the Underworld, Rosaline in Romeo and Juliet, Princess Florine and Diamond in The Sleeping Beauty, the Hungarian Princess and the pas de trios in Swan Lake, His Mistress in Weren't We Fools?, leading roles in Concerto No. 1 for Piano and Orchestra, Petite Mort, Symphonic Variations and workwithinwork and featured roles in Black Tuesday and Gong. Abrera created the roles of His Memory and His Experiences in HereAfter. Abrera received the Gold Medal at the Royal Academy of Dancing's Adeline Genée Awards in London in 1995. Abrera was appointed a Soloist in August 2001.
	Sascha Radetsky was born in Santa Cruz, California and began his ballet studies in the San Francisco Bay Area with Damara Bennett and Ayako Takahashi. At the age of 15, he was invited to study in Moscow at the Bolshoi Academy under world-renowned men's teacher Pytor Pestov. After a year in Moscow, he studied on scholarship at the Kirov Academy in Washington, D. C. under Rudolph Kharatian. He toured with the Kirov Ballet throughout the United States and internationally. He also studied on scholarship at the summer programs of the School of American Ballet, American Ballet Theatre's School of Classical Ballet with Mikhail Baryshnikov, the San Francisco Ballet School and the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Vail, Colorado. Radetsky joined American Ballet Theatre as an apprentice in 1995 and became a member of the corps de ballet in 1996. His repertoire includes the fourth movement in Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1, Birbanto in Le Corsaire, the second sailor in Fancy Free, the Nutcracker- Prince in The Nutcracker, the Officer in Offenbach in the Underworld, the Champion Roper in Rodeo, Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet, Benno, von Rothbart and the Neapolitan Dance in Swan Lake, the fourth movement in Symphony in C, leading roles in Black Tuesday, Gong and Jabula, and featured roles in La Bayadère, Le Corsaire, Don Quixote and Romeo and Juliet. He has also been a frequent guest artist with ballet companies across the United States. In December 1999, Radetsky appeared on PBS's Great Performances/Dance in America in ABT's Le Corsaire. In 2000, he starred as Charlie in the movie Center Stage as well as in pop singer Mandy Moore's music video I Wanna Be With You from the Center Stage soundtrack. Mr. Radesky was promoted to Soloist in 2003.
	Scott Marble, originally from New Hampshire, started his classical training at the University of New Hampshire and the Boston School of Ballet. During his performing career, he was a member of Indianapolis Ballet Theatre in Indianapolis, Indiana; Ballet West in Salt Lake City, Utah; and Nevada Ballet Theatre in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Mr. Marble also appeared as a guest artist with the Seacoast Ballet in New Hampshire and the Alberta Ballet School in Edmonton, Canada. He has performed principal and soloist roles in Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, The Nutcracker, Cinderella as well as numerous contemporary and original works.
	Peter Strand is retired from a 20 year career in dance and is happy to be back in his home town, Colorado Springs, dancing purely for the love of it. He has worked with such companies as Oakland Ballet, Minnesota Ballet, Lexington and Connecticut Ballet. Internationally, he has worked on the MS Vistafjord as featured dancer, Crystal Cruises, and The Scotia Prince. Modern companies he has worked for include Micheal Mao Dance Company, Muna Tseng, Kim Robbards, and David Taylor. He has also choreographed in Rock Island, Illinois; Nashua, New Hampshire; Venice, Italy; St. George, Utah; NY, New York; and Lexington, Kentucky.
	Lawrence Jackson, a native of Jackson, MS., and graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi, holds a B.F.A. in Dance. Mr. Jackson has taught at the Madison County Cultural Arts Center, Mary Bethune Performing Arts School, and the University of Southern Mississippi. Mr. Jackson danced four seasons with Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble and is currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts degree with Florida State University. Besides performing with Colorado's Classical Youth Ballet, Mr. Jackson also offers Contemporary Dance Master Classes at Ballet Society of Colorado Springs studios for Intermediate and Advance level dancers that are well attended and enjoyed by dance students in the area.
	David Sckolnik, since 1995, Mr. Sckolnik has taken an active role in the Pikes Peak Region's performing and visual arts scene and brings a lifetime of love for the arts to his efforts. He has been a writer and critic for the Colorado Springs Independent and Springs Magazine and in January 1997, started ArtsPeak for Southern Colorado. Through his own company, à la carte productions, Sckolnik works with numerous performing arts organizations as a consultant, program developer, publicist and representative. For two seasons he was the Director of Marketing for the Colorado Springs Philharmonic. As a performer, David has spent long hours on the stage in drama, comedy, musical theatre and opera. A classically trained baritone and actor, Sckolnik has performed with the Fine Arts Center's Repertory Theater Company. He also founded the very popular Thursday Night Recital Series at the Colorado Springs School. Currently he works as a marketing consultant for Ballet Society and Opera Theatre of the Rockies
	Jacob Mora is artistic director of Moraporvida Contemporary Dance, a company of unique and talented individuals based on urban experiences and human emotions. As well as director of Porvida, Jacob teaches and choreographs using a unique blend of traditional and contemporary techniques that fuse modern, jazz, hip hop, poetry and ethnic movements. Teaching around the country Jacob is currently on staff At the University of Wyoming as well as the New York Institute of Dance. As a solo dancer, Jacob has had the pleasure of working with many choreographers and companies including The Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble, David Taylor Dance Theatre, Toronto based Mohawk choreographer Santee Smith Group, Kaleidoscope Dance Theatre, Alaska Dance Theatre and Hannah Khan Dance Co. As an ADF Scholarship Recipient, Jacob worked with Betty Jones, Nathan Trice, Lisa Race and performed the critically acclaimed piece "Subverse" with the David Dorfman Dance Co. Jacob has also had the pleasure of working with Master Choreographers such as Donald Mckayle, Milton Meyers, Betty Jones, Bill T Jones, Ron K Brown and Eleo Pomare among many. As well as an accomplished stage performer, Jacob works as an actor and producer of video and film.
	Lincoln Thomas is a software engineer and team lead for Hewlett-Packard Company. In the arts community, he is more often heard than seen. He moonlights as a substitute on-air host for KCME-FM, 88.7's classical music programming. He has provided voices for KCME Radio Theatre productions, and performs in the classical guitar quartet Colorado Springs Guitar Ensemble. He is as surprised as you that he is playing Tchaikovsky, having neither formal acting training nor significant experience beyond high school drama classes. Script author David Sckolnik remembered him from their KCME days together and offered him the role. Lincoln overcame his shyness and self-doubt (as Tchaikovsky did) and is now thoroughly enjoying bringing the master to life and watching the amazing Youth Ballet from his better-than-front-row seat during these performances.
	Tessa Victoria has performed with the City Ballet of Houston, Houston Ballet and Ballet West. She has attended summer programs at Boston Ballet, Pacific Northwest, Pennsylvania Ballet and Houston Ballet. Tessa dances with Robert Sher-Machherndl's Lemon Sponge Cake Contemporary Ballet in Boulder, CO.