Meet Our Team!
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LEADERSHIP AND COMMUNICATIONS
Chatch Pregger, Artistic Director (top left) Chatch@balletvermont.org Katie Decker, Executive Director (top right) Katie@balletvermont.org Lindsey Brand, Communications Coordinator (bottom left) communications@balletvermont.org Tai Nixa Peterson, Project Coordinator (bottom middle) Amy Overstreet, Communications Volunteer (bottom right) |
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FINANCE
Tai Nixa Peterson, Donor Support (top left) donorsupport@balletvermont.org Margaret Vizzard, Grant Writer (top right) Laura Jorgensen, Finances specialist (bottom left) Jillian Wright, Finances specialist (bottom right) |
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FARM TO BALLET IMPLEMENTATION
Marya Carmolli (top left) Sara Stengel (top right) Sara Ziegler (bottom left) Halle Broido (bottom right) |
Meet Your Dance Instructors!
Chatch Pregger, Artistic Director
Chatch Pregger is the founder and Artistic Director of Ballet Vermont and creator of the Farm to Ballet Project. He also choreographed the Ballet Vermont show Bees & Friends. Chatch loves making ballets that support Vermont communities and provide opportunities for Vermont dancers. Chatch started his ballet education at the Adams School of Dance in Rutland VT and then moved on to The Nutmeg Conservatory in CT. He joined Boston Ballet II in 1999 and was promoted to Boston Ballet the following year. Since then he has been a member of the Washington Ballet and the Houston Ballet, as well as a guest artist with the Arizona Ballet, Hartford Ballet, and Texas Ballet Theatre. He has performed works by Mark Morris, Ben Stevenson, Kirk Peterson, Nacho Duato, Trey MacIntyre, Twyla Tharp, Christopher Weeldon, Antony Tudor, Michael Pink, Stanton Welch, Septime Webre, and George Balanchine, as well as many ballets from the classical repertoire including Giselle, La Bayadere and Don Quixote. Locally, Chatch took part in Burlington’s Quadricentennial festival playing Samuel de Champlain in From The New World by Heddy Maalem. He also joined the Portland Ballet in 2010 and Safe Haven Ballet in 2019 to dance the role of Cavalier in The Nutcracker.
Chatch Pregger is the founder and Artistic Director of Ballet Vermont and creator of the Farm to Ballet Project. He also choreographed the Ballet Vermont show Bees & Friends. Chatch loves making ballets that support Vermont communities and provide opportunities for Vermont dancers. Chatch started his ballet education at the Adams School of Dance in Rutland VT and then moved on to The Nutmeg Conservatory in CT. He joined Boston Ballet II in 1999 and was promoted to Boston Ballet the following year. Since then he has been a member of the Washington Ballet and the Houston Ballet, as well as a guest artist with the Arizona Ballet, Hartford Ballet, and Texas Ballet Theatre. He has performed works by Mark Morris, Ben Stevenson, Kirk Peterson, Nacho Duato, Trey MacIntyre, Twyla Tharp, Christopher Weeldon, Antony Tudor, Michael Pink, Stanton Welch, Septime Webre, and George Balanchine, as well as many ballets from the classical repertoire including Giselle, La Bayadere and Don Quixote. Locally, Chatch took part in Burlington’s Quadricentennial festival playing Samuel de Champlain in From The New World by Heddy Maalem. He also joined the Portland Ballet in 2010 and Safe Haven Ballet in 2019 to dance the role of Cavalier in The Nutcracker.
Avi Waring, Ballet Mistress
Avi is from and still lives in Wolcott, Vermont. She started dancing at the Wolcott Children’s Ballet in second grade where she “fell in love with the rigor and ritual and music and work of ballet.” She trained seriously in ballet throughout high school then attended college in New Orleans where she explored different forms of dance. She then hitchhiked around the county, reconnecting with dance and learning sketch comedy. After the birth of her son, she returned to Vermont and now teaches ballet and contemporary dance at Ballet Vermont and Northern Vermont University. She serves as Ballet Vermont's Dance Mistress, and has performed the parts of Farmer, Cucumber, and more in the Farm to Ballet Project and Firefly and Cardinal in Bees & Friends. She also dances with Double Vision Intermedia Performance and has worked with Vermont-based dance artists including Polly Motley, Hannah Dennison, Clare Byrne, and Paul Besaw. Avi operates a small farm in Wolcott where she raises goats and chickens and produces a garden every summer.
Avi is from and still lives in Wolcott, Vermont. She started dancing at the Wolcott Children’s Ballet in second grade where she “fell in love with the rigor and ritual and music and work of ballet.” She trained seriously in ballet throughout high school then attended college in New Orleans where she explored different forms of dance. She then hitchhiked around the county, reconnecting with dance and learning sketch comedy. After the birth of her son, she returned to Vermont and now teaches ballet and contemporary dance at Ballet Vermont and Northern Vermont University. She serves as Ballet Vermont's Dance Mistress, and has performed the parts of Farmer, Cucumber, and more in the Farm to Ballet Project and Firefly and Cardinal in Bees & Friends. She also dances with Double Vision Intermedia Performance and has worked with Vermont-based dance artists including Polly Motley, Hannah Dennison, Clare Byrne, and Paul Besaw. Avi operates a small farm in Wolcott where she raises goats and chickens and produces a garden every summer.
Marica Porter, Instructor
Marica Porter received her primary training with Liz Dimmel and Tobin James at Dramatic Truth School of Ballet in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. She studied on scholarship at the State Ballet School of Missouri (now the School of Kansas City Ballet), Ballet Magnificat! in Jackson, Mississippi, and the Stephens College Summer Dance Program. She holds a BFA in Dance Performance, a BA in Business Administration, and a Minor in Mathematics from Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri. Marica danced with Dramatic Truth Touring Company, Stephens College Repertory Dance Theatre, Collin County Ballet Theatre, Western Oklahoma Ballet Theatre, Western Arkansas Ballet, and the Northwest Arkansas Arts Foundation. She performed lead and featured roles in Peter & The Wolf, The Nutcracker, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, and many original works. Her choreography includes excerpts from The Nutcracker, South Pacific, and original work, Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, chosen for performance in the Emerging Concert of Regional Dance America/Southwest Festival 2013. Ms. Porter is an American Ballet Theatre® Certified Teacher in Pre-¬Primary through Level 7 and Partnering of the ABT® National Training Curriculum and has taught dancers in Missouri, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kentucky, and Illinois.
Marica Porter received her primary training with Liz Dimmel and Tobin James at Dramatic Truth School of Ballet in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. She studied on scholarship at the State Ballet School of Missouri (now the School of Kansas City Ballet), Ballet Magnificat! in Jackson, Mississippi, and the Stephens College Summer Dance Program. She holds a BFA in Dance Performance, a BA in Business Administration, and a Minor in Mathematics from Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri. Marica danced with Dramatic Truth Touring Company, Stephens College Repertory Dance Theatre, Collin County Ballet Theatre, Western Oklahoma Ballet Theatre, Western Arkansas Ballet, and the Northwest Arkansas Arts Foundation. She performed lead and featured roles in Peter & The Wolf, The Nutcracker, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, and many original works. Her choreography includes excerpts from The Nutcracker, South Pacific, and original work, Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, chosen for performance in the Emerging Concert of Regional Dance America/Southwest Festival 2013. Ms. Porter is an American Ballet Theatre® Certified Teacher in Pre-¬Primary through Level 7 and Partnering of the ABT® National Training Curriculum and has taught dancers in Missouri, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kentucky, and Illinois.
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Contact Info:Katie Decker, Executive Director:
(802) 222-6894 katie@balletvermont.org 33 Commercial Drive Waterbury, VT 05676 Note to Media Outlets:
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