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Stella Abrera of South Pasadena, California, began her studies with Philip and Charles Fuller and Cynthia Young at Le Studio in Pasadena. She continued her studies with Lorna Diamond and Patricia Hoffman at the West Coast Ballet Theatre in San Diego. She also spent three years studying the Royal Academy of Dancing method with Joan and Monica Halliday at the Halliday Dance Centre in Sydney, Australia.
Abrera joined American Ballet Theatre as a member of the corps de ballet in 1996 and was appointed a Soloist in 2001. Her repertoire with ABT includes the Girl in Afternoon of a Faun, Calliope in Apollo, Gamzatti and a Shade in La Bayadère, Cinderella in Cinderella, Aurora in Coppélia, Gulnare and an Odalisque in Le Corsaire, She Wore a Perfume in Dim Lustre, the woman in white in Diversion of Angels, Driad Queen and a Flower Girl in Don Quixote, Helena in The Dream, the first passerby in Fancy Free, Myrta and the peasant pas de deux in Giselle, Lescaut’s Mistress in Manon, the Sugar Plum Fairy and the Snow Queen in The Nutcracker, Emilia in Othello, the Ballerina in Petrouchka, Henrietta in Raymonda, Lady Capulet and a Harlot in Romeo and Juliet, the Lilac Fairy, the Fairy of Valor and Princess Florine in The Sleeping Beauty, the pas de trois in Swan Lake, the violin in Symphonie Concertante, leading roles in Airs, Baker’s Dozen, Ballet Imperial, C. to C. (Close to Chuck), Everything Doesn’t Happen at Once, In the Upper Room, Jabula, The Leaves Are Fading, Meadow, Petite Mort, Sinfonietta, Les Sylphides, Symphonic Variations, Within You Without You: A Tribute to George Harrison, Without Words and workwithinwork, and featured roles in Black Tuesday and Gong.
Abrera created the roles of His Memory and His Experiences in HereAfter, His Mistress in Weren’t We Fools? and leading roles in Pièce d’Occasion with Herbie Hancock, Pretty Good Year and Seven Sonatas.
Abrera received the Gold Medal at the Royal Academy of Dancing’s Adeline Genée Awards
in London in 1995.
Ms. Abrera's performances with American Ballet Theatre are sponsored by Edward H. Smith, Jr.
La Bayadère
5/19/2010, 5/21/2010
Giselle
11/6/2009
Seven Sonatas
(New Ratmansky Work)
11/12/2009
Everything Doesnt Happen at Once
(New Millepied Work)
11/13/2009
The Brahms-Haydn Variations
7/3/2010
The Brahms-Haydn Variations
6/9/2010, 6/11/2010, 7/1/2010
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Kevin
McKenzie: Artistic Director