Dancer: Barbara
Craig
Academic School and Grade: Shaker
Heights High School Senior
Date of Birth: January 21, 1994
Resident Suburb: Shaker Heights
Number of year taking dance and,
specifically, at Cleveland City Dance:
3 years at Cleveland City Dance
What do you like about dancing?
Dancing takes poetry and puts it into motion, it gives physical form to
internal and emotional experiences.
Where have you gone for summer
intensives?
Cleveland City Dance Summer Intensive
Have you received any scholarships;
academic or dance?
EJ Busser Ballet Scholarship
Favorite dance roles
so far:
Waltz of the Flowers, acrostic intent. Sugar Plum.
Dream dance role: Scheherazade
What are your dance goals?
To perform as much as I can and learn many different styles.
Future aspirations:
To get accepted into a dance program. I would love to do contemporary ballet.
Hobbies or something most people do not
know about you:
I love learning languages and plan to become a polyglot.
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Dancer: Ava
Fagin
Academic School and Grade: Beachwood
High School Senior
Date of Birth: June 12, 1993
Resident Suburb: Beachwood
Number of year taking dance and,
specifically, at Cleveland City Dance:
14 years dancing, 3 years at Cleveland City Dance
What do you like about dancing?
I like to be able to express myself and tell a story through movement.
Where have you gone for summer
intensives?
Cleveland City Dance Summer Intensive
Favorite dance roles so far:
Arabian soloist
Dream dance role: Music video
dancer, music tour backup dancer, Broadway dancer
What are your dance goals?
Major in dance then eventually go the commercial route in L.A.
Future aspirations:
Perform in movies, music videos, music tours, etc.
Hobbies or something most people do not
know about you:
I spent Jan-June of 2009 studying in Israel where I also had the great
opportunity of studying ballet in Jerusalem.
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Dancer: Marina
Falcone
Academic School and Grade: Hathaway
Brown School Senior
Date of Birth: March 3, 1993
Resident Suburb: Shaker Heights
Number of year taking dance and,
specifically, at Cleveland City Dance:
16 years, all at Cleveland City Dance.
What do you like about dancing?
My favorite part about dancing is performing. I get really nervous but excited
at the same time. I like getting to show everyone all my hard work. I’m a very
shy person but when I’m onstage I can be someone completely different.
Where have you gone for summer
intensives?
Cleveland City Dance summer dance intensives.
Favorite dance roles so far:
I like doing Big Swans in Swan Lake and I love all my tap dances!
Dream dance role:
Juliet in Romeo and Juliet or Giselle in Giselle
What are your dance goals?
My goal is to continue dancing no matter what I do in my life.
Future aspirations:
I would like to be a photographer and take pictures of people for a magazine.
Hobbies or something most people do not
know about you:
Other than dance, I like photography and I enjoy writing. I will be going to
college at DePaul University in Chicago this fall 2011.
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Dancer: Diana
Yohe
Academic School and Grade: Willoughby
South High School Senior
Date of Birth: 16 years old
Resident Suburb: Willoughby, OH
Number of year taking dance and,
specifically, at Cleveland City Dance:
13 years in dance, 3 1/2 years at Cleveland City Dance
What do you like about dancing?
I love that in dance, you can be anything you want to be. I love that to each
music piece, there are hundreds of interpretations, and that there is always
something to strive for and do to make movement more beautiful.
Where have you gone for summer
intensives?
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre Summer Intensive- 2008, Julliard Summer Intensive-
2009, San Francisco Ballet Intensive- 2010.
Favorite dance roles so far:
Russian Princess- Swan Lake, Sugar Plum- Nutcracker
Dream dance role:
Aurora- Sleeping Beauty
What are your dance goals?
To work in a ballet dance company.
Future aspirations:
Work in a ballet dance company and later explore other areas and styles of
dance. I’d really love to become a choreographer or open my own studio one day.
Hobbies or something most people do not
know about you:
I love to draw, watch movies and read. I also really like to shop!
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Dancer: Abi Fedor
Academic School and Grade: High School Graduate
Date of Birth: September 3
Resident Suburb: South Euclid
Number of year taking dance and, specifically, at Cleveland City Dance:
15 years, all at CCD
What do you like about dancing?
I love being able to communicate to the audience through movement and tell a story. I like the discipline of dance, the freedom of dance and how it offers unlimited opportunities to be creative and express emotion in different ways.
Where have you gone for summer intensives?
I have attended the summer program at Cleveland City Dance and the summer dance intensive at Ballet Magnificat! in Jackson, MS.
Favorite dance roles so far:
Soloist in Waltz of the Flowers, one of Swanhilda's friends in Coppelia and Italian Princess from Swan Lake.
Dream dance role: Sugar Plum Fairy
What are your dance goals?
I would like to be a professional dancer and tour with a company.
Future aspirations:
My future aspirations are to dance with a company, travel around the world, go backpacking in New Zealand and get married and have a family.
Hobbies or something most people do not know about you:
I enjoy camping and backpacking, skiing, sewing, traveling and playing the piano. I am also friends with a prince from the Philippines.
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