Welcome to our dancer profile pages.

Normally, when you visit a site like this you are treated to one of two things. A series of headshots that seem to be pulled from a yearbook or a series of highly staged, studio images. The graceful image of SDB dancer Chelsy Meiss as Odette above fits into this category. These are usually accompanied by a list of schools attended by that dancer and roles performed. We have chosen to do something different.

Each dancer is now represented by a performance or a rehearsal shot.

Whether the image is lovely, comical, offbeat or intense, they are actively within the process of dancing, not posing.

Additionally, rather than being represented by dry statistics, the dancers have given statements regarding their personal views and inspirations, as regards dance.

We hope that you will use these pages to get to know our dancers more as the artists that they are, and the artists they aspire to be.

At the bottom of the page, you will find links to pages containing our guest artists and past dancers who have been an integral part of our history.

Javier Velasco
Artistic Director, San Diego Ballet