2016 and performs lead roles in works by Pontus Lidberg, Lucinda Childs,
Lar Lubovitch and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. In January 2018 Dance Spirit said
she “may be the...Company’s newest dancer, but her classical lines and
easy grace are already turning heads”. She graduated with high honors
from the Academy of Teatro Carcano in Milan and studied at the Bejart
School, where she performed with the Bejart Ballet Lausanne.
ANNE O’DONNELL (Dancer) joined the Company in 2014 and performs
lead roles in Graham’s Appalachian Spring and Dark Meadow Suite and in
new works by Marie Chouinard, Mats Ek, Pontus Lidberg, Annie-B Parson
and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. She danced with Ailey II and Buglisi Dance Theatre
and attended Jacob’s Pillow Contemporary Program, Glimmerglass
Opera Festival, and Springboard Danse Montreal. She appeared on the
cover of Dance Spirit’s February 2016 Issue “Young and Modern”.
LESLIE ANDREA WILLIAMS (Dancer) was born in Newport News, VA and
grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. Ms. Williams joined the Company just
two months after graduating from The Juilliard School in May 2015. Since
then, she has performed numerous featured roles in iconic Graham ballets,
such as Chronicle, Appalachian Spring, Diversion of Angels, and Embattled
Garden. She was recently featured in Dance Magazine as a dancer “On
The Rise.”
ALYSSA CEBULSKI (New Dancer) was born and raised in Michigan, where
she trained at Valentina’s School of Ballet. She graduated from Marymount
Manhattan College in 2016 with a BFA in Ballet under the direction
of Katie Langan. She has performed works by Dwight Rhoden, Kate
Skarpetowska, Aszure Barton, and Darrell Grand Moultrie, among others.
She was a member of Graham 2.
ALESSIO CROGNALE (New Dancer) is from Abruzzo, Italy. He began is
training in his home town and then pursued his major in Ballet at the
Academy of Teatro Carcano in Milan. Mr. Crognale trained at the Martha
Graham School where he graduated in 2016 and was a member of Graham
2. He danced with Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company in 2016 and 2017.
CARA MCMANUS (New Dancer) trained in her native Falmouth, MA before
earning a BFA in Dance and a BA in Comparative Literature from
Fordham University and The Ailey School. She has performed works by
Robyn Mineko Williams, William Forsythe, Norbert de la Cruz III, and others.
She was a member of Graham 2.
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