Karen Scalzitti-Kennedy to Teach Allen Civic Ballet's Summer Intensive

KAREN SCALZITTI-KENNEDY, former principal dancer of the Boston Ballet and Ballet West, will teach master classes for the Allen Civic Ballet's Summer Intensive on June 8, 9 and 10, 2015 at the Allen Civic Ballet's School in Allen, Texas.

KAREN SCALZITTI-KENNEDY was born in Hawthorne, New Jersey and received her formative training at the Irine Fokine School of Ballet and with Jeremy Ives.

Ms. Scalzitti-Kennedy joined Ballet West and rose to the rank of principal dancer. She danced the role of Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty during Ballet West's engagement at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.

Ms. Scalzitti-Kennedy joined Boston Ballet as a soloist in 1988 and was appointed a principal dancer in 1991. Her repertoire included Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty, the title role in Giselle, Kitri in Don Quixote, Titania in Bruce Wells' A Midsummer Night's Dream, Columbine in Fokine's Carnaval, the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker, the Pas de Trois in Fernando Bujones' staging of Raymonda Act III, the title role in Ben Stevenson's Cinderella, Juliet in Choo San Goh's Romeo and Juliet, Tatiana in John Cranko's Onegin, Caroline in Antony Tudor's Jardin Aux Lilas and Irma in the reconstruction of Auguste Bournonville's Abdallah; a role she had also danced in Ballet West's production.

Her contemporary repertoire included principal roles in Jiri Kylian's Symphony in D, Frederick Ashton's Monotones, Maurice Bejart's Le Sacre du Printemps, David Bintley's Allegri Diversi and in the Balanchine ballets, Bourree Fantasque, Who Cares?, The Four Temperaments and Theme and Variations.

Among her frequent partners have been Fernando Bujones, Roland Price and Gilles Reichert.

During the summer of 1990, Ms. Scalzitti-Kennedy toured with Fernando Bujones and the Stars of the Boston Ballet performing in Romeo and Juliet, Giselle and Don Quixote Pas de Deux in Puerto Rico, Miami and San Antonio. In 1991, 1996, and 1999 Ms. Scalzitti-Kennedy appeared as a guest artist in the Brighton City Ballet's production of The Nutcracker. In 2002 Ms. Scalzitti-Kennedy appeared as a guest artist in the Shreveport Metropolitan Ballet's production of The Nutcracker. In 2003 Ms. Scalzitti-Kennedy appeared in the Gala des Etoiles in Montreal, Canada. Ms. Scalzitti-Kennedy has also appeared as a guest artist with many regional ballet companies in the United States.

In 1994, Ms. Scalzitti-Kennedy joined the Indianapolis Ballet Theatre (which became known as Ballet Internationale/Indianapolis) as a principal dancer and added the following roles to her repertoire: the title role in Alberto Alonso's Carmen, the title role in Martin Fredmann's Cinderella, the title role in La Sylphide, the title role in Firebird, the title role in Phaedra, Lisette in Oleg Vinogradov's production of La Fille Mal Gardee, the title role in Raymonda Act III, Princess Tiger Lily in John McFall's Peter Pan, Mina in Michael Pink's Dracula, and principal roles in Leonid Yakobsen's Creation of the World, Carnival in Venice, Pas de Dian, A Thousand and One Nights, Paul Taylor's Company B, and Val Caniparoli's Lambarena. She also created one of the principal roles in Vladimir Angelov's Interzone.

In 2005 Ms. Scalzitti-Kennedy left Ballet Internationale to pursue a career as a freelance teacher, and coach.

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