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Kaila Carter                                                                                                  Height: 5’1

                                   Phone: (301) 821-3830                                                                               Eye Color: Brown                                   Email: KCarter0630@gmail.com                                                         Hair Color: Brown

Professional Work:

  • Confluence Ballet Company (2021-Current)

    • The Nutcracker- Sugar Plum Fairy (December 2022 & 2023)

    • By Your Side- Soloist- Choreographed by Joanna Schmidt

    • The Nutcracker- Clara (December 2022)

    • Piantina- Soloist- Choreographed by Julia Erickson (2022)

    • Firebird- Firebird (April 2022)

    • Les Sylphides- Prelude Variation (2022)

Staycee Pearl Dance Project and SOY SOS Guest Artist (2022-2023)

Idaspe- An opera directed by Claire van Kampen and choreographed by Antonia Franceschi (October 2022)

Ballethnic Dance Company (2019 - 2021)

Urban Nutcracker - Wildflower (Dewdrop Fairy) (2020)

Urban Nutcracker- Rag Doll (2020)

Urban Nutcracker- Sadie Doll (Columbine Doll) (2019)

Urban Nutcracker- Spanish Variation (2019)

Commissioned by Cynthia Pratt to choreograph a grant piece for Butler Ballet (Gallery of Memories)

Grants and Awards

  • YWCA Emerging Leader Award (2023)

  • Dance Canvas Choreography Showcase Participant  (2019-2020)

  • Recipient of the Jordan College of the Arts Collaborative Grant (2019)

 Pre-Professional Work:

  • The Nutcracker (2015-18)

  • Swan Lake (2016)

  • Giselle (2017)

  • Little Blue Devil (2016)

  • Catching Shadows (2017)

  • Suffragette City (2018)

  • Streamlines (2015)

  • Riverrun Revisited (2016)

  • Senalpria

  • Ash Fighting Balance

  • Joyti

  • Ekta

  • Home

Dance Education:

  • Butler University’s, ButlerBallet

  • Duke Ellington School of the Arts

  • Katherine Smith Contemporary Dance Ensemble

  • B.S. Degree in Dance/Arts Administration from Butler University  (Graduation Date: May 2019)

Choreographic Works:

  • Now You (don’t) See Me

  • Nutcracker- Waltz of the Flowers and Tea Variation (2022) 

  • Choreographed for the live album performance of Somewhere Strange for singer Vida Chai at the New Hazlett Theater, directed by Lindsay Goranson (2022)

  • …Goes On (2022)

  • Nutcracker- Spanish Variation (2021)

  • We Are One? (2021)

  • Right in the Back (2019)

  • Blackbird (2018)

  • Coordinated Discord (2018)

  • Linked (2017)

  • Hallelujah (2016)

Residency’s, Conferences, and Summer Intensives:

  • Dance Canvas Choreography Showcase (2019- 2021)

  • Dance Theater of Harlem (Residence program at the Kennedy Center)

  • International Association of Blacks in Dance

  • Garth Fagan Summer Intensive

  • Paul Taylor Winter Intensive

  • Complexions Contemporary Ballet Summer Intensive

  • Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Summer Intensive

  • The Rock School Summer Intensive

  • Jones-Haywood Dance School

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