ALUMNI
QBSC alumni have performed in major dance companies across Canada and around the globe such as National Ballet of Canada, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Pacific Ballet Company, Ballet Victoria, Ballet Kelowna, Ballet Classique de Paris, Albert Ballet and Portuguese National Ballet.
Many graduates have also gone on to exciting non-performing careers in the arts and arts-related disciplines. QBSC alumni are invited to contact us with updates on new developments in their careers.
Megan West, Victoria Academy of Ballet
Marco Abdelnour … Ballet Grandiva
Katlyn Addison … Ballet West
Tal Aronson … OMO Dance Company, Intergrated Dance Artists Collective
Taryn Ash … National Ballet of Canada and Ballet B.C.
Hayley Atkin … Broadway
Anthony Bakty … Soloist with The National Theatre of Beograd
Skye Balfour-Ducharme … Alberta Ballet, Shanghai Ballet
Laura Bayne … Portugese National Ballet, Ballet Classique de Paris
Elizabeth Belyea … Eugene Ballet in Eugene, Oregon
Robb Beresford … Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Ballet Kelowna, Ballet Victoria
Sylvia Berman … Post-graduate student at SUNY (State University of New York at Purchase)
Gabriella Blades … Dance teacher in Barbados
Cassidy Boone … School of Toronto Dance Theatre, Professional Training Program
Ryan Boorne … Principal Dancer, National Ballet of Canada
Sonya Boretski … Graduate of School of Toronto Dance Theatre

Desirée Botting … Assistant to the Artistic Director and Artistic Staff at QBSC
Steven Bretzlaff … Nevada Ballet Theatre, Banff Centre
Valerie Brown … Berlin Opera, Ballet de Monte Carlo
Andrea Burridge … National Ballet of Canada
Adrianna Calvo … Ontario Ballet Theatre
Chris Carley … Opera Atelier
Jessica Charron … Ballet Department Head, Studio Dance Arts
James Clark … Royal Danish Ballet Company
Meredith Clinton … ZViDance Company, New York, KDNY Dance
Shelley Cormier … Ontario Ballet Theatre
Ainslie Cyopik … National Ballet of Canada, Pacific Ballet Theatre, Ballet B.C., AinslieWear creator/owner
Rhea Daniels … Bachelor of Fine Arts from Fordham University/Alvin Ailey Dance Center, also trained at National Dance Theater of Jamaica and Lou Conte Dance Studio of Hubbard Street Dance, Chicago, Masters of Fine Arts from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts
Melissa Debertin … Dance Instructor
Alana Della Mora … Dance Instructor, Bloch Dance, Australia
Brandon Downs … Royal Winnipeg Ballet
Sarah Dupuis … Royal Danish Ballet Company
Ashley Evans … Artistic Director, Ballet Étoile Canada
Karen Fisher … Winnipeg Contemporary Dancers
Polly Forsdyke … Ballet Bordeau and Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, Phantom of the Opera
Ayako Fukuyama … Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia
Tina Fushell … Ambitious Enterprises, Independent Choreographer
Rocky Gagne … Ballet Kelowna
Jessica Giroux-Ingrao … Greg Ferwin Theatre
Dana Glassman … Arts Producer with CBC, National Post Dance Critic
Anthony Gordon … London Ballet
Allison Fox … Choreologist
Eric Hall … Ballet Jorgen
Julie Hay … Second Soloist with the National Ballet of Canada, starred in Dirty Dancing – The Musical, Toronto
Tina Headecker … Royal Winnipeg Ballet
Andre-Claude Kaltenrieder … Tulsa Ballet Theatre, instructor & administrator at Texas Ballet Theatre School, Dallas Campus
Donna Kelly … Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Cats and Phantom of the Opera. Taught at QBSC
Dan King … Ballet Jorgen Canada
Riiko Kitayama … Roxey Ballet Company
Melenka Kustec … Arts Umbrella Post Graduate Program
Katia Lacelle … Dance teacher at L’académie de danse classique
Nancy Lavine … Joffrey Ballet
James Leja … National Ballet of Canada
Peter Locke … Royal Ballet of Flanders
Agata Maria … OMO Dance
Emilie Martineau … Arts Umbrella graduate, Vancouver
Preston McBain … Ballet Jorgen Canada
Alison McCreary … Soloist with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Alberta Ballet, yoga teacher
Ellen McDonald … Ballet Victoria
Kristina McIntosh … Artistic Staff at QBSC
Shannon McKechnie … Western University
Riyo Mori … Miss Universe 2007, dance studio owner in Japan
Jamie Nix … Gärtnerplatztheater
Peter-Nicholas Taylor … Royal Winnipeg Ballet
Andreea Olteanu … National Ballet of Canada
Sandra Paris … Ontario Ballet Theatre
Alexandra Pera … Washington Ballet, Alberta Ballet
Anna Peterson … Dance teacher
Cara Piscitelli … Les Grands Ballet Canadiens
Racheal Prince … Ballet B.C., Alberta Ballet
Emily Puumala … Undergrad/Masters from Durham University, Durham UK. Currently PhD candidate in Toronto
Isabella Rapino … Dance Instructor at Roland & Romaine School of Dance, Toronto
Meghan Rose … OMO Dance Company, Ontario Ballet Theatre
Chip Seibert … National Ballet of New Zealand, Alberta Ballet, Ballet B.C., costume and clothing designer
Andrea Sherwood … Phantom of the Opera, Canadian Opera Company
William Steers … Europa Ballet, Austria
Kayli Taylor … Le Jeune Ballet du Quebec
Jessika Tomik … Carnival Cruise Lines
Erica Turner … Alberta Ballet, Ballet Kelowna
Emily Tye … Ontario Ballet Theatre, Ballet Espressivo
Tyler Udall … New York City Ballet
Brittany Vaters … Post-graduate student at School of Alberta Ballet
Alex Viau … Slovak National Theatre, Bratislava Slovakia
Alanna Veitch … Carnival Cruise Line
Brianna Veitch … Carnival Cruise Line
Meghan Veitch … D2D Dance Festival
Amy Walsh … Phantom of the Opera, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, Rapunzel in the Stratford production of Into the Woods
Aarik Wells … National Ballet of Canada
Shannon Wells … Milwaukee Ballet Company, Dance studio owner
Megan West … Victoria Academy of Ballet
Jessica Wilson … Toronto Dance Theatre
Isaac Wright … National Ballet of Canada