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Stuart
Carroll is the Artistic Director of Sacramento-based
Capitol Ballet Company. He has presented The Nutcracker,
Swan Lake, Giselle, Paquita, La Bayadere, and Don Quixote
to local audiences and the surrounding communities with
support and funding from the Sacramento Metropolitan
Arts Commission and the California Arts Council. He
has been a guest artist with American Ballet Theatre,
at the Metropolitan Opera House, and the Milwaukee Ballet
Company. In 1984, as the only American dancer to advance
through the finals, he represented the United States
at the International Ballet Competition in Helsinki,
Finland. His performances were televised internationally
and he was a featured artist in the media. He joined
Basel Ballet, Switzerland, as first soloist from 1985
1993, appearing in the films La Fille Mal Gardee,
Swan Lake, and Dead End. In addition to many of the
classics, he has danced contemporary choreography by
Nacho Duato, Hans van Manen, Paul Taylor, William Forsythe,
Heinz Spoerli, and Nils Cristi. He has created roles
for choreographers from Stuttgart Ballet, Bejart Ballet,
and his teacher and mentor Gabriella Darvash.
Mr. Carroll has toured extensively throughout Western
and Eastern Europe, Japan, and Taiwan ROC. He studied,
as a scholarship student, at the San Francisco Ballet
School and the Pennsylvania Ballet school prior to receiving
his pre-professional training from John Hart (Artistic
Director, Royal Ballet of London), Erling Sunde (Ballet
Master, Royal Ballet of London), and Ann Howard (Soloist,
Royal Ballet of London) at United States International
University. After attending the School of Performing
and Visual Arts on a full scholarship, he joined San
Diego Ballet, and then joined Arizona Dance Theater
as a Principal Dancer. In 1995, he joined the faculty
of Sacramento High School to develop the curriculum
and to establish a Ballet Department at the Visual and
Performing Arts Center. His students have been accepted
to the School of American Ballet, San Francisco Ballet
School, American Ballet Theatre and Boston Ballet School.
In 1997, he consulted on the founding plans for the
Natomas Charter School Performing and Fine Arts Academy,
and assisted with the curriculum for their Ballet program.
In 2005, Mr. Carroll joined the staff at University
of California, Davis, and is currently Adjunct Professor
of Ballet at the university. |
