Carmen Corella
 Born in Madrid, Spain, Carmen Corella received her dance training at the Victor Ullate School of Dance from 1986 to 1990 and later joined the company, where she danced until 1995.
At the Victor Ullate Ballet she performed soloist and principal roles in such works at Nils Crystie‰s Before Nightfall, Hans van Manen‰s Grosse Fugue, Rudy van Dantzig‰s Four Last Songs, Victor Ullate‰s El Amor Brujo, and George Balanchine‰s Allegro Brillante, Concerto Barroco and Theme and Variations.
In March 1996, Corella was a finalist in the Second Nureyev International Ballet Competition held in Budapest, Hungary. In August 1996, she joined the Pennsylvania Ballet where she danced such soloist roles as the Energy Fairy in The Sleeping Beauty, Prayer in Coppélia and in George Balanchine‰s Who Cares? and Divertimento No. 15.
Corella appeared as a guest artist with American Ballet Stars Tour of China, where she danced Diamond in The Sleeping Beauty and George Balanchine‰s Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux. Corella represented Spain at the Expo /98 in Lisbon, Portugal, dancing Le Corsaire Pas de Deux and La Sylphide Pas de Deux with her brother, ABT Principal Dancer Angel Corella.
Corella joined ABT as a member of the corps de ballet in April 1998. Her roles with the Company include a lead D‰Jampe, Tall Pas D‰Action and a Shade (2nd variation) in La Bayadère, an Odalisque in Le Corsaire, Mercedes and the Driad Queen in Don Quixote, Big Swans in Swan Lake, Fairy Godmother in Cinderella, Romeo‰s Harlot in Romeo and Juliet, Mirta and Zulma in Giselle, Balanchine‰s Symphony in C (4th movement, principal couple), the Stepmother in Agnes de Mille‰s Fall River Legend, She Wore a Perfume in Antony Tudor‰s Dim Lustre, the Lady in Red and the Lead Can-Can dancer in Ga”té Parisienne, Twyla Tharp‰s Push Comes to Shove, leading roles in Harold Lander‰s Etudes, Jiri Kylian‰s Stepping Stones and Sechs Tänze, William Forsythe‰s workwithinwork, Kirk Peterson‰s Amazed in Burning Dreams, Robert Hill‰s Marimba, and Stanton Welch‰s Isn‰t it a Pity in Within You Without You: A Tribute to George Harrison. She created leading roles in Mark Morris‰ Gong, Robert Hill‰s Baroque Game and Concerto No. 1 for Piano and Orchestra and Stanton Welch‰s Carmina Burana from HereAfter.
As a guest artist, Corella has performed the Esmeralda Pas de Deux and Pas D‰Esclave Pas de Deux with Paris Opera Ballet Etoile Jose Martinez, Giselle Act II Pas de Deux and Raymonda Pas de Deux with Giuseppe Picone, Don Quixote Pas de Deux with Boston Ballet Principal Dancer Yuri Yankowsky and Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux with ABT Principal Dancer Marcelo Gomes.
Corella was appointed a Soloist in August 2003.
Ms. Corella's performances with American Ballet Theatre are sponsored by Bettina Varoli.
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