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Alumni Benefits

Alumni fellows continue to enjoy many of CBA’s benefits. We welcome alumni to use our studio, offices, and conference rooms (pending availability). Alumni are also encouraged to join us for any of our weekly fellows seminars. Finally, alumni benefit from the ever-growing network of CBA-affiliated artists and scholars, who often stay in touch and collaborate far beyond their fellowship season.

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Meet our Fellows

Cécile Feza Bushidi

Adji Cissoko is in a pose, cupping the sides of her face. She has dark curly hair with bangs that's styled short. She is wearing a black tank top. The photo has dark colors and is in black and white.

Val Jeanty sits in a cross-legged post in front of a set of drums. Val is holding a set of drum sticks.She has light hair that is very short, almost shaven. She is wearing all black.

Jihye Lee is leaning on a table. She is wearing a red suit jacket, and has slicked-back black hair and red lips. She has a soft expression and is looking at the camera. The background is black.

Tiffany Rea Fisher is sitting on a couch wearing a blue, check-pattern dress with mixes of blue, white, and black. The background is white and the chair is gray. She sits cross-legged with her arm to the side. She has dark skin and dark hair, wears glasses, and is looking at the camera smiling.

Tiffany Rea-Fisher

The cover of Anurima Banerji's book, Dancing Odissi: Paratopic Performances of Gender and State (Seagull Books/University of Chicago Press, 2019)

Anurima Banerji

Brooke Holmes, a white woman with short dirty-blonde hair, speaks at an event. She is looking toward the left of the photo with a speaking expression. The tops of her shoulder show with a black top.

Kara Yoo Leaman

Erica “Twelve45” Blunt

Head shot of Wang Lu, who has black hair with bangs in a ponytail and golden fair skin, sitting in front of piano.

Ausia Jones by Marc Montplaisir

Head shot of Andre T Lepecki. He is speaking into a microphone while sitting down. He is fair skinned with short, greying hair.

Head shot of Jerron Herman, who has blond hair and a black beard with dark skin. He is sitting in front of an outdoor garden space.

head shot of Aimee Meredith Cox. She is sitting in front of a doorway wearing black framed glasses. She has dark skin and a shaved head.

Aimee Meredith Cox

Head shot of Bijayini Satpathy, who has brown skin and greying dark hair.

Bijayini Satpathy

Constantina Theofanopoulou

Mara Mills is standing in front of a plain, peach-colored wall. She has short, curly hair that is dark brown. She is smiling and standing with her arms crossed. She is wearing a blue long-sleeved shirt that is lighter on the sleeves and darker on the bodice. The photo is from the waist up.

Christopher-Rasheem McMillan

Christopher Rudd

Artistic Director

Whitney Laemmli

Paul J. Edwards

Kathryn Dickason

Nicholas Chielotam Akas

Durante Verzola

Marisa Michelson and Miriam Parker

Amy Hall Garner

Aguibou Bougobali Sanou

Meredith Martin

Martin Scherzinger

Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener

Kathryn Lockwood and Yousif Sheronick

Musical Ensemble

Sarah Foster-Sproull

Tommie-Waheed Evans

Kimberly Bartosik

Gillian Lipton.

Suzanne Carbonneau

Suzanne Carbonneau

Barbara Gail Montero.

Barbara Gail Montero

Sophia Rosenfeld.

Sophia Rosenfeld

Valleri Robinson.

Valleri Robinson

Samar Haddad King

Frances Chiaverini

Frances Chiaverini

Milena Sidorova

Elizabeth Coker.

Elizabeth (Betsy) Coker

George Williamson

Hannah Schneider

Ninotchka Bennahum.

Ninotchka Bennahum

Intellectual Historian

Alastair Macaulay

Joseph V. Melillo

Executive Producer Emeritus

Raja Feather Kelly

Stefanie Batten Bland

Sylvie Vitaglione

Catherine Turocy, pictured, is the Artistic Director of The New York Baroque Dance Company and Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters in the Republic of France. Photo by Andrako.

Catherine Turocy

Artistic Director

Lauren Lovette. Photo by Patrick Frasier.

Author Vanessa Manko will be a Resident Fellow at The Center for Ballet and the Arts in Fall 2018. Photograph © Beowulf Sheehan mail@beowulfsheehan.com

Julie Malnig. Photo by Beowulf Sheehan.

Patricia Beaman, CBA Fellow in Fall 2018. Photo by John Carr.

Patricia Beaman

Janice Ross, Professor, Theater and Performance Studies Department and Director, Dance Division, Stanford University, was a Fellow at The Center for Ballet and the Arts in Fall 2018.

Allegra Kent and Edward Villella in George Balanchine's Bugaku.

Jessie Montgomery.

Jessie Montgomery

New York City Ballet dancer Russell Janzen will be a Resident Fellow at The Center for Ballet and the Arts in Fall 2018.

Eva Shan Chou, Professor in the Department of English atBaruch College, City University of New York, will be a CBA Fellow in Fall 2018.

Elizabeth Schwall. Photo by Clayton Raithel.

Elizabeth Schwall

Bridget Kibbey. Photo by Lisa-Marie Mazzucco.

Netta Yerushalmy was a CBA Fellow in Fall 2018.

Netta Yerushalmy

Chase Brock, Artistic Director of The Chase Brock Experience, will be a Resident Fellow at The Center for Ballet and the Arts in Fall 2018.

Artistic Director

Brandon Stirling Baker

Lighting Designer

Mkhululi Mabija and Paul Castles

Shannon Glover, Choreographer and an Artistic Partnership Initiative Fellow at The Center for Ballet and the Arts in Spring 2019.

Julie Cunningham

Wubkje Kuindersma

Olivia Sabee, Assistant Professor and Director of the Dance Program, Swarthmore College

Dance Historian

Anno Kachina, Artist Protection Fund Fellow at CBA in Spring 2018.

Natalie Rouland

Christopher Williams, Choreographer and a Fellow at The Center for Ballet and the Arts in Spring 2018.

Christopher Williams

Claudia Roth Pierpont

Jean-Marc Puissant, Designer and Fellow at The Center for Ballet and the Arts in Spring 2018.

Jean-Marc Puissant

Claire Bishop, Art Historian and a Resident Fellow at The Center for Ballet and the Arts in Spring 2018.

Christopher Wood, Professor and Resident Fellow at The Center for Ballet and the Arts in Fall 2017.

Christopher Wood

Helen Simoneau, Choreographer and a Resident Fellow at The Center for Ballet and the Arts in Fall 2017.

Nancy Isenberg, Scholar and a Resident Fellow at The Center for Ballet and the Arts in Fall 2017.

Alma Guillermoprieto, Writer and a Resident Fellow at The Center for Ballet and the Arts in Fall 2017.

Alma Guillermoprieto

Reid Bartelme and Harriet Jung

Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer, Choreographers and Resident Fellows at The Center for Ballet and the Arts in Fall 2017.

Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer

Mariana Oliveira

Anjali Austin, Artist and a Fellow at The Center for Ballet and the Arts in Summer 2017.

Paul Vasterling, Choreographer and a Fellow at The Center for Ballet and the Arts in Summer 2017.

Paul Vasterling

Alexander Whitley

Valeria Solomonoff, Choreographer and a Resident Fellow at The Center for Ballet and the Arts in Spring 2017.

Valeria Solomonoff

Claudia Schreier, Choreographer and a Virginia B. Toulmin Fellow at The Center for Ballet and the Arts in Spring 2017.

Claudia Schreier

Francesca Harper

Sean Curran, Choreographer and a Resident Fellow at The Center for Ballet and the Arts in Spring 2017.

Meryl Rosofsky, Writer and a Resident Fellow at The Center for Ballet and the Arts in Fall 2016.

Dana Mills, Political Theorist and a Resident Fellow at The Center for Ballet and the Arts in Fall 2016.

Political Theorist

Debra Levine, Writer and a Resident Fellow at The Center for Ballet and the Arts in Fall 2016.

Wendy Lesser, Critic and a Resident Fellow at The Center for Ballet and the Arts in Fall 2016.

Melissa R. Klapper, Historian and a Resident Fellow at The Center for Ballet and the Arts in Fall 2016.

Melissa R. Klapper

John Heginbotham

Emily Coates, Choreographer and a Resident Fellow at The Center for Ballet and the Arts in Fall 2016.

Jonah Bokaer, Choreographer and a Resident Fellow at The Center for Ballet and the Arts in Fall 2016.

Seth Stewart Williams, Scholar and a Graduate Fellow at The Center for Ballet and the Arts in Summer 2016.

Seth Stewart Williams

Pam Tanowitz, Choreographer and a Resident Fellow at The Center for Ballet and the Arts in Fall 2016.

Marian Smith, Professor and a Resident Fellow at The Center for Ballet and the Arts in Summer 2016.

Laura Quinton, Historian and a Graduate Fellow at The Center for Ballet and the Arts in Summer 2016.

Preeti Vasudevan

Jessica Lang, Choreographer and a Resident Fellow at The Center for Ballet and the Arts in Summer 2016.

Doug Fullington, Musicologist and a Resident Fellow at The Center for Ballet and the Arts in Summer 2016.

Doug Fullington

Deborah Steiner

Sascha Radetsky

Singer/Songwriter

J. Mark Scearce, Composer and a Resident Fellow at The Center for Ballet and the Arts in Spring 2015.

J. Mark Scearce

Joseph Horowitz, Musicologist and a Resident Fellow at The Center for Ballet and the Arts in Fall 2015.

Joseph Horowitz

J. David Velleman

John Michael Schert

Director/Producer

Christopher d’Amboise

Jed Pearl, Critic and a Resident Fellow at The Center for Ballet and the Arts in Fall 2015.

Tarik O'Regan, Composer and a Resident Fellow at The Center for Ballet and the Arts in Fall 2015.

Tarik O’Regan

Frederick Wiseman