Danielle Brown

Birthplace

Wisconsin

Started Dancing

Age 6

Previous Companies

Ballet Austin, Nashville Ballet

Joined The Sarasota Ballet

2007, promoted to soloist 2009, principal 2010

Favorite Role

The Siren in Prodigal Son, Desdemonia in Othello, the Jealous Sister in Las Hermanas, Myrtha in Giselle, and Firebird

Favorite Productions

Giselle, Elite Syncopations, Three Where She Loves, In The Upper Room, Las Hermanas

Career Highlights

Meeting and dancing with Alina Cojocaru and Johan Kobborg in Giselle, dancing in London and meeting Sir Peter Wright and Dame Beryl Grey

Roles I would like to dance

Giselle and Juliet

Repertoire

Lead and featured roles include:  Sir Fredrick Ashton's The Two Pigeons, Les Patineurs, Facade;  George Balanchine's Donizetti Variations, Allegro Brillante, Prodigal Son, Divertimento No. 15;  Dame Ninette de Valois' Checkmate, The Rake's Progress;  Sir Kenneth MacMillan's Elite Syncopations, Las Hermanas;  Matthew Bourne's The Infernal Galop, Boutique;  Antony Tudor's Lilac Garden;  Sir Peter Wright's Giselle;  Christopher Wheeldon's The American, There Where She Loves;  Twyla Tharp's In The Upper Room;  Andre Prokovsky's Vespri;  Mikhail Fokine's Les Sylphides; Peter Darrell's Othello (Desdemona);  Matthew Walsh's I Napoletani;  and Maris Petipa's Diana and Acteon Pas de Deux.  She created roles in Dominic Walsh's Wolfgang for Webb and The Trilogy, Jamie Carter's A Deux Mains.