KATHERINE GIESE

Katherine Giese, originally from San Antonio, Texas, graduated from Northern Arizona University with a degree in Arts Management with a Theatre Emphasis and a Minor in Dance. She has worked with the Flagstaff Festival of the Arts, Joffrey Ballet Workshop, Northern Arizona University Orchestra, and University of Incarnate Word Dance Department. Upon moving to Albuquerque in 1996, she began teaching, dancing, and choreographing with Ballet Repertory Theatre. Katherine has danced featured roles such as Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Snow Queen in The Nutcracker, Fertility Pas de Deux in Lumina by David Chavez, Magdalena in Casa de Bernarda Alba, Soloist in Paquita, the Stepmother in the 1997 Bravo award-winning production of Cinderella, and a Stepsister in the 2003 production of Cinderella. She has choreographed countless concert pieces for Ballet Repertory Theatre and collaborated with other choreographers on Enchanted Tales of the Southwest and The Nutcracker. She has served in a number of capacities with Ballet Repertory Theatre, including principal dancer, resident choreographer, ballet instructor (ages 3 to adult), Educational Outreach Director, Director of Children's Division, Ballet Mistress, Administrative Assistant, and now as Executive/Artistic Director. Katherine trained with Susan and Buddy Trevino, Maureen Price, Sharon Randolph, Jillana, Gretchen Warren, Alex Ossadnik, and Jayne Lee. Besides Ballet Repertory Theatre, she has performed with Bill Evans for New Mexico Ballet Company, Contemporary Dance Ensemble, Canyon Movement Company, and the Incarnate Word College Ballet Company. As a child, she performed with San Francisco Ballet in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and with the Berlin Ballet in La Sylphide featuring Rudolf Nureyev and Eva Evdokimova.