CRB Fall 2024 Gala Tickets (Streaming Ticket)

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Columbia Repertory Ballet's Fall 2024 Gala is here and we could not be more excited for you all to join us. Come support your fellow dancers as they showcase their artistry, skill, and mastery for dance. Our program will feature works from Emily Kikta, Michael Foley, Anna Hughlett, and Pemberley Olson!

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Emily Kikta is a soloist dancer with New York City Ballet, where she has been a member since 2010. She is a 2019 Virginia B. Toulmin Fellow for women leaders in dance at NYU. As a dancer with New York City Ballet, she has performed many featured roles including: George Balanchine’s Apollo, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rubies, Divertimento No 15, Symphony in C, Kammermusik No. 2, and Episodes. She has also originated a featured role in Paul McCartney’s Ocean’s Kingdom, Jamar Robert’s Emanon, Kyle Abraham’s Love Letter on Shuffle, Pam Tanowitz’s Bartok Ballet, Sidra Bell’s Suspended Animation and Peter Walker’s ten in seven. In 2019, she co-founded her own dance video production company, KW Creative, with Peter Walker, where she serves as a producer, director, choreographer, editor, and Performer. Emily completed her Masters in Business Administration from PACE University in 2022 and graduated summa cum laude from Fordham University in 2017 with a Bachelors in Communications.

Michael Foley has enjoyed a diverse career as a dancer, choreographer, and teaching artist for over 30 years. He received his undergraduate degree from Bates College and his MFA in Dance from the University of Washington where he performed in the works of several of the 20th century’s celebrated choreographers, including Mark Morris, Alwin Nikolais, Stephen Petronio and Hanya Holm. As a dancer, he has performed throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia in the companies of over two dozen choreographers including Doug Elkins, Kevin Wynn, Seán Curran, Donna Uchizono, Eun Me Ahn, Joy Kellman, Ruby Shang, and Roberta Garrison. Foley’s choreography has been commissioned by major international dance companies. He has taught workshops and master classes at over 100 universities, academic institutions, dance festivals and private studios around the globe. He has received numerous recognitions for his work in the Arts including a William J. Fulbright scholarship from the United States Department of State for his research and teaching in Mexico with Delfos Danza Contemporànea, a Kennedy Center/American Theater Festival Award for Best Direction of a Play (Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses), and he was the Ruth Page Visiting Artist at Harvard University. He received the Chicago National Association of Dance Masters’ “Artistic Achievement Award” in 2019. Foley is currently a Professor of Dance at the University of South Florida, and he is also the director/creator of the USF Dance in Paris Programs, which has brought over 375 dance majors from 25 American colleges and universities to Paris since 2007.

Anna Hughlett began her training in her hometown at Kansas City Ballet School. She received additional formative training at Kansas School of Classical Ballet and attended summer programs at The Royal Ballet School, Pacific Northwest Ballet School, San Francisco Ballet School, and others. In 2019, she joined Boston Ballet School as a Trainee under Margaret Tracey's direction and entered the Graduate Program a season later, training with Kathleen Mitchell and Peter Stark. During this time, she performed in the Company’s productions of Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Giselle, and Chaconne and danced featured roles in Boston Ballet II performances, including works by Balanchine, Petipa, Jorma Elo, and Mikko Nissinen. She then danced with Grand Rapids Ballet for the 2022-2023 season and in Aspen Santa Fe Ballet’s The Nutcracker in 2023. She has choreographed works for Boston Ballet II, Boston Ballet School’s Graduate Program, Grand Rapids Ballet, and as an independent artist in Kansas City.

Pemberley Ann Olson is a professional ballet dancer with San Francisco Ballet. As a student at San Francisco Ballet School, she performed featured child roles and joined Company productions with the Corps in Helgi Tomasson’s Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, and Swan Lake, Balanchine's Serenade, Stars and Stripes, and A Midsummer’s Nights Dream, Wheeldon’s Cinderella. She was awarded the SFB Choreographic Fellowship at the age of 15, and again at the age of 17.Pemberley was offered an apprenticeship with the San Francisco Ballet in 2020 and became a member of the Corps de Ballet in 2022. Since joining the Company, she’s worked with and performed for several choreographers; William Forsythe, Akram Khan, Aszure Barton, Alexei Ratmansky, Dwight Rhoden, Anna Lopez Ochoa, Jamar Roberts, Cathy Marston, Arielle Smith, Claudia Schreier, and many more. In 2023, she was the first recipient of the Creation House Choreographic Initiative (ChoreoLab), allowing her to choreograph for a year on SFBallet students. She has now choreographed several additional pieces (Forever with Me, Her Gambit, With Love from K.Haring).

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Event Venue

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