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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 facility at University of California Davis, Department of Theater and Dance.
You can contact Stuart here: directors@capitolballet.com
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Sharon
Newton is a respected artist, and
an accomplished dancer and teacher. She
co-founded the Capitol Ballet Center and
Capitol Ballet Company in 1999.
Born in Miami, Florida, Ms. Newton began
her dance training as the recipient of a
Ford Foundation Scholarship at the School
of Garden State Ballet. She later joined
the Company and held the position of Principal.
She worked with Pittsburgh Ballet Theater
and Arizona Dance Theater from 1984-1986,
before accepting an invitation from Ivan
Nagy to join Cincinnati Ballet as Principal
Dancer. She has danced lead roles in many
Balanchine ballets including Concerto
Barocco, Symphony in C, Who Cares, Scotch
Symphony, and Serenade, as
well as most of the classical repertoire.
She later joined Basel Ballet as a soloist
from 1986-1992, and danced the contemporary
ballets of Judith Jamison, Van Manen, Bejart,
and Paul Taylor.
Ms. Newton’s long association with
ballet pedagogue Gabriella Darvash, as protégé
and designated heir to her teaching method
and style, provided her with years of extensive
teacher training. She was Principal Teacher
at the Darvash Ballet School in New York
City from 1981-1987, and demonstrated the
Darvash technique in a televised documentary
on the Ballet Master. Ms. Newton was a Guest
Teacher at Broadway Dance Center in New
York City from 1993-1996, and was Guest
Teacher with the school of Ballet Hispanico
in New York and Dance Masters of America.
In 1995, Ms. Newton was a Guest Teacher
at Sacramento High School’s Visual
and Performing Arts Centre, and assisted
in building the first Ballet Program at
a public school in Sacramento. She later
went on to develop and teach in the Ballet
Department at the Natomas Charter School
for Performing and Fine Arts Academy from
1997-2001.
Currently, Ms. Newton is expanding the repertory
of Capitol Ballet Company by restaging many
of the classics, including Swan Lake and The Nutcracker.
You can contact Sharon here: directors@capitolballet.com
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