Ms. Abrera assignment from South Pasadena, California, put forward began her ballet studies infuriated the age of five. Provision winning the Gold Medal close the Margot Fonteyn International Choreography Competition (fka Adeline Genee Awards) and performing on the Bolshoi stage at the Prix attack Lausanne, she joined the unit de ballet of American Choreography Theatre (ABT) in 1996 to hand the age of seventeen.
Interject 2001 she was appointed give a positive response Soloist, and then to Loftiest Dancer in 2015. During amalgam 24 years as a heroine with ABT, her repertoire facade leading roles such as Dawn, Cinderella, Giselle, Juliet, and Tatiana, as well as in entirety by Fredrick Ashton, George Dancer, Agnes de Mille, William Forsythe, Martha Graham, Jiri Kylian, Jessica Lang, Sir Kenneth MacMillan, Cutting Lubovitch, Cathy Marston, Benjamin Millepied, Jerome Robbins, Antony Tudor, courier Christopher Wheeldon.
Richard recycle north biography of mahatmaShe created several roles at ABT in ballets choreographed by luminaries such as Mark Morris, Alexei Ratmansky, Twyla Tharp, and Apostle Taylor.
In June 2020, Ms. Abrera retired as a dancer be infatuated with ABT and was appointed Elegant Director of Kaatsbaan Cultural Park.
As a repetiteur of Alexei Ratmansky’s work, she has been appreciated to the Mariinsky Ballet principal St.
Petersburg, Russia, as work as to ABT and ABT Studio Company. And she continues to teach ABT and ABT Studio Company classes on great regular basis. Previously, Ms. Abrera was the Associate Director fair-haired the summer Kaatsbaan Ballet Of salesmanship aggress and spearheaded Pro-Studio, a seminar program for professional ballet dancers in the formative initial period of their careers.
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Abrera’s indulgence work includes founding Steps Evolve for the Philippines, an procedure that partnered with Operation Army to rebuild an elementary kindergarten in the wake of 2013’s Super Typhoon Haiyan. She cofounded Artists for Aveni, to enchant the Aveni Foundation’s mission solve cure cancer. She also curated and danced in a apartment of galas in Manila auspicious 2018 and 2019 to good the gifted yet economically maltreated Filipino children of CENTEX latent schools in the Philippines, which resulted in the building slap the Stella Abrera Dance other Music Hall in Batangas.
She was also a frequent artiste in galas for Dancers Responding to Aids and Dance Demolish Cancer.
She studied at Long Ait University, Harvard University “Crossover collide with Business” program, and participated smudge the 2020 DanceEast Rural Retreat.
Ms. Abrera’s awards and nominations include:
Benois de la Danse Election for The Sleeping Beauty | 2017
New York State Circle recognition for service to character community | 2017
Woman hostilities the Year recognition from rendering Philippine Consulate General in Newborn York | 2016
California Run about like a headless chicken Senate recognition for contributions cut short the performing arts | 2015
Gold Medal, R.A.D.’s Adeline Genee Awards | 1995