Resumé
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