San Diego Ballet

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Banuet, Emily

Emily Banuet Fiol was born in San Diego and raised in Ensenada, Mexico where she first started her ballet training at the age of 3. She danced at Ballet Del Mar under Alfredo Blancarte and Nubia Gutierrez until moving to the states. Emily continued her dancing career while attending different studios until finding San Diego …

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Díaz Flores, Elena

Elena joined San Diego Ballet in 2022 and has performed roles  in Bird Land,  The Four Seasons , Giselle, The Jungle Book,  The Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, Viva Vivaldi, Stabat Mater,  Eight to the Barre and Sleeping Beauty. Elena started dancing when she was a child and it was at the age of 13 that …

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Osoria, Jared

Jared was born and raised in San Diego, and began his ballet training with the San Diego Ballet School, under Robin Sherertz-Morgan and Igor Yurlov. While only recently beginning his professional career, he has attended various programs around the world for ballet. He has attended summer intensives at the San Francisco Ballet School, the Royal …

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Gian Carlo Vargas

As a kid in Lima Peru, Gian Carlo Vargas first dream was to be in the circus. One day he discovered that his grandfather was a ballet dancer and after that he dreamed of being a ballet dancer instead. He started his training at the National Ballet School of Lima, Peru, despite not having what …

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Taylor, Sophie

Sophie Taylor was born in Kirov, Russia and began dancing at the age of three, and immediately fell in love with ballet. Sophie performed in her first Nutcracker as a baby doll and sugar babe on the San Diego Ballet stage. In 2013, she and her family relocated to Orange County, CA.  where she trained …

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Gomez, Tonatiuh

Tonatiuh Gómez, Mexican born in Mexico City, used to practice professional sports like, soccer, hockey, Olympic gymnastics, among others, but his true passion is ballet. He finished his degree in Marketing with the Banking and Commercial School while in the meantime he founded and developed his own company. Businesses like ballet is also his passion. …

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Conniff, Jessica

Jessica Conniff was born in Staten Island, New York and began dancing at the age of 3. She started training at the Staten Island Ballet at the age of 7. In 2011 she attended her first American Ballet Theatre Summer Intensive in New York. She spent her next few summers there on full scholarship and …

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Parfitt, Georgie

Georgie was born in Surrey, England and started ballet at the age of 3. She then moved to California and trained at San Ramon Valley Dance Academy, until moving back to England at the age of 14 to begin her professional training at a vocational dance boarding school, Tring Park School for the Performing Arts, …

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Zoe Marinello-Kohn

Zoe received her ballet training at the San Francisco Ballet School and the Academy of Ballet in San Francisco. Since then, Zoe has worked professionally with the San Diego Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet, Twin Cities Ballet of Minnesota, Elle Vie Dance Company and the Osage Ballet. Zoe joined the San Diego Ballet in 2011 and is currently a company …

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Crocker, Sierra

Sierra started dancing at age 3, training predominantly at the San Diego School of Ballet under the direction of Robin Morgan (New York City Ballet) and Igor Yurlov (Bolshoi Ballet). Over the course of her training she’s had the opportunity to perform all over San Diego and the United States from New York City, to …

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