Company Dancers
Lana Abad
Hometown: Chula Vista, CA
Member of CVB Since: 2017
Lana received her ballet training from Premiere School of Dance in the United Kingdom for 6 years, under the Royal Academy of Dance Syllabus. In 2014, she came in 2nd place and 3rd place at the Welwyn Festival of Dance and Chesham Arts Festival, respectively
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She competed a solo in the US Prix de Ballet in 2018, where she was awarded a scholarship by Ms. Inessa Plekhanova for the RUBY International Summer Intensive Program at Radford University, VA which she will be attending in the Summer of 2019.
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Notable roles include Fritz in The Nutcracker and Dwarf in Snow White. She has attended summer programs with Ms. Victoria Schneider.
Katalina Luna
Hometown: Chula Vista, CA
Member of CVB Since: 2018
Katalina has attended several summer intensives with Ms. Victoria Schneider. She has had the opportunity to work with Ms. Inessa Plekhanova and Shannon Parsley learning excerpts from Swan Lake, Bournonville from Mr. Nilas Martins, and Le Corsaire Act 3 from Ms. Ivonne Lemus-Mendez.
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Notable Roles include Lead Spanish, Lead Russian and Columbine in the Nutcracker, Dwarf in Snow White, Evil Stepsister in The Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella in the Ballet Repertoire's Cinderella.
Gabrielle Meng
Hometown: Chula Vista, CA
Member of CVB Since: 2018
Gabrielle has attended summer intensives with Ms. Victoria Schneider (2015-2016), Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School (2017), and a summer intensive led by Ms. Yuko Katsumi (2018). She will be attending Boston Ballet Summer Intensive this year. She has also competed a solo at the US Prix de Ballet in 2018.
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Notable Roles include Lead Spanish, Columbine, and Marzipan Pas de Trois in the Nutcracker and the Generosity Fairy and Cinderella's Stepsister in The Sleeping Beauty.
Roslynn-Mei Sapienza
Hometown: Chula Vista, CA
Member of CVB Since: 2015
Notable roles include Breadcrumb Fairy and Precious Jewel in Sleeping Beauty, Cygnet from Swan Lake, and Lead Arabian and Lead Chinese in the Nutcracker. She has attended summer programs with Ms. Victoria Schneider.
Ashlie Noelle G. Valerio
Hometown: Chula Vista, CA
Member of CVB Since: 2017
Ashlie has attended several summer intensives with Ms. Victoria Schneider.
Notable Roles include Lead Bonbon, Harlequin Doll, and Lead Butterfly in the Nutcracker and Dwarf in Snow White
Hana Rios
Hometown: San Diego, CA
Member of CVB Since: 2013
Notable roles include: Lilac Fairy and Purity Fairy in The Sleeping Beauty, Big Swans and the Act I Pas de Trios in Swan Lake, and the Snow Queen in The Nutcracker.
She has attended summer programs with Ms. Victoria Schneider (2015-2017) and Mr. Donald Tolj (2014). She has learned excerpts of Sleeping Beauty from Ms. Inessa Plekhanova (2014, 2016) as well as Act II of Swan Lake from Ballet Master Ms. Shannon Parsely of Boston Ballet (2016). To add to her most recent repertoire it includes, ‘Bournonville Divertissements’ from Balanchine repetiteur Mr. Nilas Martins (2018).
Teresa Castaneda
Hometown: Chula Vista, CA
Member of CVB Since: 2014
Notable roles include Cygnets in Swan Lake, Swan Lake Act 1 Pas de Trois, Little Red Riding Hood, Little Alice, and Clara in the Nutcracker. She received not only a 50 percent scholarship to Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre's 2017 Summer Intensive Program but also a 75 percent scholarship to Tulsa Ballet's 2017 Summer Intensive Program which she attended that year. Teresa has took part in several Summer Intensives with Ms. Victoria Schneider. She has also learned excerpts of Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake from Ms. Inessa Plekhanova (2014, 2016, 2017). Additionally, Teresa had the opportunity to learn Swan Lake Act 2 from Ms. Shannon Parsley, a Ballet Master at Boston Ballet (2016). Most recently, she worked with Mr. Nilas Martins a Balanchine Repetiteur, on Bournonville Divertissments (2018).
Daniela Garcia-Arce
Hometown: Bonita, CA
Member of CVB Since: 2014
In addition to training in Chula Vista she has attended summer intensives at The Kirov Academy of Ballet (2013) and The Pittsburg Ballet Theater (2014). Her notable roles include The Evil Queen in Snow White (2016), Cygnet in Swan Lake (2016, 17), Violent Fairy and Cinderella in Sleeping Beauty (2018). She will be attending The New School Eugene Lang in the fall of 2018 and double majoring in dance.
Caitlyn Sellers
Hometown: Chula Vista, CA
Member of CVB Since: 2014
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Caitlyn has attended multiple summer intensive programs including Kirov Academy of Ballet (2013), Ms. Victoria Schneider (2015-2017) and Mr. Donald Tolj (2014), and Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School (2015, 2018). She also competed at Japan Grand Prix (2016) in Tokyo, Japan. As part of her training, under Ms. Taeko Nishino, she has learned excerpts of Sleeping Beauty from Ms. Inessa Plekhanova (2014, 2016) as well as Act II of Swan Lake from Boston Ballet, Ballet Master Ms. Shannon Parsley (2016). Additionally, she has learned ‘Bournonville Divertissements’ from Balanchine repetiteur, Mr. Nilas Martins (2018) and Le Corsaire Jardin Anime from Ms. Ivonne Lemus-Mendez (2019).
Notable roles include: Pas de Trois and Cygnet in Swan Lake; Columbine, Dewdrop and Marzipan Pas de Deux in the Nutcracker; and Little Red Riding Hood and Sapphire in Sleeping Beauty. She has also performed in Sapporo City Ballet's 20th year anniversary performance of La Fille Mal Gardee alongside principal dancers Hee Seo with ABT and Mathias Dingman with Birmingham Royal Ballet (2016).
Chula Vista Ballet Apprentices - 2018-2019 Season
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Sabrina Carle-Parra
Savannah Kipp
Katelyn Mosler
Kira Sellers
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