Kiara DeNae Felder

Corps de balletCary, United States
Dancer Kiara DeNae Felder
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"When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid."

Audre Lorde
Kiara DeNae Felder Kiara DeNae Felder

2000-2009 Cary Ballet Conservatory
2009-2010 University of North Carolina School of the Arts
2010-2012 Pacific Northwest Ballet School

2012-2017 Atlanta Ballet
2017 Les Grands Ballet Canadiens de Montréal, corps de ballet

Performed with Pacific Northwest Ballet in the corps de ballet:

  • George Balanchine’s Le Baiser de la Fée and Coppélia
  • Kent Stowell’s Nutcracker

At Atlanta ballet:

  • Principal woman in Liam Scarlett's Vespertine
  • Jiri Kylians Petite Mort
  • George Balanchine’s Allegro Brillante
  • Soloist in Paquita by Marius Petipa staged by Gennadi Nedvigin
  • Capulet in Jean Christophe Maillot’s Romeo & Juliet
  • Yuri Possikhov’s Classical Symphony and Firebird
  • Ohad Naharin’s Secus and Minus 16
  • Andrea Miller’s Push

Original roles:

  • Gemma Bond’s Denouement
  • Helen Pickett’s Camino Real as Madrecita

Dance Magazine’s ''25 to Watch'', 2016

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