@BWW_Nashville Twitter Held Hostage, Day 9: Nashville Ballet's JULIA EISEN

If it's Tuesday, then that means a return to one of our most popular features in the BroadwayWorld: the takeover of our @BWW_Nashville Twitter account by yet another luminary from our community. Today (which according to experts is @BWW_Nashville Twitter Held Hostage Day 9), Nashville Ballet's Julia Eisen, the Chapel Hill, North Carolina native who has been an integral part of the company's success since 2010, has our password and a license to thrill and delight.

We fully expect Julia, what with her graceful ways and high caliber training (oh, for the love of God, she looks like she belongs on Masterpiece Theatre or something), to bring a sense of class to our coterie of Twitter Takers-over, but there is also the fear that all that pointe work has taken its toll on her and she'll be just as wacky as any of the myriad of actor-types who've already taken on the assignment and somehow managed to blackmail us into submission. We considered ourselves warned and, too, so should you. She is, after all, among the principal dancers in this weekend's 7 Deadly Sins - the latest Nashville Ballet premiere - and so there is that to pique your interest, n'est ce pas?

In the interest of decorum and such, here is Julia's official bio: Julia Eisen started her dance training at The Ballet School of Chapel Hill, N.C. where she studied ballet, modern and jazz. She was also a member of the internationally recognized North Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble. Her extensive preparation to become a professional dancer led her to the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, N.C. After graduating, Eisen moved to Richmond, Virginia, to become a trainee with the Richmond Ballet. In 2010, Eisen moved to Nashville to become a member of Nashville Ballet's Second Company, NB2. She was promoted to an apprentice in 2012 and became a full company member in the spring of 2013.

She has performed in memorable works such as Nashville Ballet Artistic Director & CEO Paul Vasterling's Carmina Burana, Jirí Kylián's Petite Mort, Christopher Bruce's Moonshine, Salvatore Aiello's Afternoon of a Faun and Gina Patterson's ...but the flowers have yet to come. Eisen has also danced with Terpsicorps Theater of Dance in Asheville, N.C. and National Choreographers Initiative in Irvine, Calif.

When Eisen is not at Nashville Ballet, she teaches ballet, jazz and tap to aspiring dancers. She embraces her new hometown of Nashville by frequenting the local live music scene, restaurants and playing with her dog Lil' Man.

Julia's just the latest in a long line of artists-creative types-people especially gifted in expressing themselves in 140 characters or less (albeit a rogue's gallery of individuals including Tori Keenan-Zelt, Katie Bays, Ryan Bowie, Hunter Martin, Matthew Hayes Hunter, Sara Kistner, Brett Myers, JorDan Scott and Ryan Lynch)who have taken up the Takeover Challenge to entertain you, and later this week she'll be joined by all manner of personalities bent on keeping you intrigued and informed, including Wednesday's Patrick Kramer of WildcaRD Productions; Joanna and Daniel Hackman from Chaffin's Barn Dinner Theatre's cast of Beau Jest; and Distraction Theatre Company, who'll take over Friday functions in anticipation of their production of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare that opens that night.

To follow the fleet, as it were, be sure to "follow" @BWW_Nashville and @jefndixie for all the theatrical news fit to print.

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