Katelyn Prominski

Katelyn Prominski, of Washington, DC, trained with The Washington School of Ballet and San Francisco Ballet School. She also studied privately with Shirley Bennett and Barbara Walczak. Ms. Prominski joined Pennsylvania Ballet as a member of the Corps de Ballet in September 2008 where she has been featured in the company premieres of Mauro Bigonzetti’s Kazimir’s Colours, Twyla Tharp’s Push Comes to Shove, and Hans van Manen’s Five Tangos. She was also featured in Robert Weiss’ Octet andPeter Martins’ Fearful Symmetries. From 2004 to 2008, Ms. Prominski danced in the Corps de Ballet of the Boston Ballet and has also been a member of The Suzanne Farrell Ballet since 2002.
Her Balanchine repertoire includes Slaughter on 10th Avenue (Strip Tease Girl), The Four Temperaments (First Theme, Phlegmatic), La Valse (Three Girls), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Ballo Della Regina, Chaconne, Concerto Barocco, Divertimento No. 15, Don Quixote, La Source, Mozartiana, Raymonda, Scotch Symphony, Serenade, Stars and Stripes, Tempo di Valse, Tzigane, and Who Cares?.
Ms. Prominski's classical repertoire includes Frederick Ashton's La Fille Mal Gardée, John Cranko's Taming of the Shrew and Romeo and Juliet, August Bournonville's La Sylphide, Maina Gielgud's Giselle, James Kudelka’s Cinderella, Bronislava Nijinska's Les Noces, Mikko Nissinen's The Nutcracker, Rudolf Nureyev's Don Quixote, and Marius Petipa's Sleeping Beauty. In addition, Ms. Prominski has worked extensively with Val Caniparoli (Lambarena), and in world premieres with Jorma Elo (Carmen), Mark Morris (Up & Down), and Helen Pickett (Eventide).
Ms. Prominski performed across Spain in 2007 and at the Edinburgh Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland in 2006 in the revival of Balanchine's Don Quixote with The Suzanne Farrell Ballet, which debuted at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, in 2005.

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