Danielle was born in Libertyville, IL. She began her training with Lisa Shippman Sheppard and Paula Young David. She has attended summer intensives at Milwaukee Ballet School & American Ballet Theater. Danielle continued her training at North Carolina School of the Arts with Melissa Hayden and Ke-Huan Han. In 2004 Danielle joined Ballet Austin as an apprentice and, in 2006, joined the Nashville Ballet. Danielle joined Sarasota Ballet in 2007. Prior to joining Sarasota Ballet she has performed in George Balanchine’s Symphony in C, Symphony Concertante & Serenade and other classical repertoire, such as Swan Lake & Romeo & Juliet.

Repertoire

Since joining Sarasota Ballet Danielle has danced in a wide variety of the company’s repertoire. She has performed in Sir Frederick Ashton’s Façade, The Two Pigeons, & Les Patineurs. She has also danced in George Balachine’s Allegro Brillante & Divertimento No. 15. She danced the role of An Episode in his Past in Antony Tudor’s Lilac Garden. She has danced in Dame Ninette de Valois’s Checkmate & The Rake’s Progress and performed as the jealous sister in Sir Kenneth MacMIllan’s Las Hermanas and also danced in his Elite Syncopations. She has also performed in Dominic Walsh’s Trilogy: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Renato Paroni’s Rococo Variations, Andre Prokovsky’s Anna Karenina, John Cranko’s Pineapple Poll, the waltz in Mikhail Fokine’s Les Sylphides and Paquita.