DANCERS & GUEST ARTISTS
   
 
Cem Catbas is Co-Founder of Baltimore Ballet, Artistic Director and Principal Dancer. He danced previously with Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, the Koblenz Ballet in Germany, the Istanbul State Opera and Ballet, and the Istanbul Contemporary Ballet.
 
Yevgenia Obraztsova is a demisoloist with the Kirov Ballet. She was featured as Dance Magazine's Top 25 Dancers of 2006, where she was called "Russia's next Legend." She was the Sugar Plum Fairy in Baltimore Ballet's Nutcracker 2005.
       
   
 
Michele Wiles is a Principal Dancer with American Ballet Theater.  She  won the Gold Medal in Varna, a Bronze in Nagoya, was finalist in Paris.  She also won the Erik Brun Prize and was a Princess Grace Fellowship Recipient.  She danced the Sugar Plum Fairy in Baltimore Ballet's 2006 production of  The Nutcracker.
 
Sona Kharatian dances with the Washington Ballet. She appeared in Baltimore Ballet's "Pictures at an Exhibition" in the spring of 2005.
       
       
   
 
Neli Beliakaite danced the lead role in Giselle in 2002, Sugar Plum Fairy in 2002 and 2003, and Nikiya in La Bayadere in 2006. She has danced with the State Opera and Ballets of Lithuania and Estonia, Sacramento Ballet, Los Angeles Ballet, and Ballet de Monte Carlo.
 
Stella Abrera is a soloist with American Ballet Theater, and was named one of the Top 25 to Watch by Dance Magazine 2004. She danced the Sugar Plum Fairy in Baltimore Ballet's Nutcracker 2004.
       
 
Murat Catbas has danced several roles for Baltimore Ballet including Drosselmeyer and Arabian in The Nutcracker, and solo roles in Pictures at an Exhibition. He danced with the Mannheim Ballet and Kiel Ballets in Germany.
 
Kirk Henning has danced with the Richmond Ballet, Dayton Ballet, Suzanne Farrell Ballet and Ground Zero Dance Company.  He performed Drosselmeyer, Arabian, and Marzipan in Baltimore Ballet's Nutcracker 2006.
       
   
 
Nadia Drake danced the lead in Swan Lake in 2003. She danced with companies in San Diego and Ithica.
  Karl Broman is a frequent guest with Baltimore Ballet. He has danced The Nutcracker and Trepak in The Nutcracker 6 out of the past 7 years, as well as Hilarion in Giselle, and solo roles in Pictures at an Exhibition and Petrouschka.
       

Julia Lovejoy was a paid trainee for the 2006-07 season.

 
Veronika Part is a former soloist with the Kirov Ballet and current soloist with American Ballet Theatre.   She danced the Sugar Plum Fairy in Baltimore Ballet's 2007 Nutcracker.
 
 
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