ABOUT US
TUESDAY AND THURSDAY MORNING BALLET CLASS AT BARNEVELDER
10:00 to 11:30 a.m.
● Tuesday May 13: Susan Bryant 10:00 to 11:30
● Tuesday May 20: Susan Bryant 10:00 to 11:30
● Tuesday May 27: Susan Bryant 10:00 to 11:30
● Convenient Location Right off Hwy 59 Downtown
For more information email info@brangwendance.org
Jarina Carvalho is a former member of Dance Theatre of Harlem where she performed with the company in many of the major cities around the world. A native of Brasil, she joined the Ballet Vera Bublitz School where she had the opportunity to dance with Peter Boal ( Artistic director of PNB) who invited her to come to America. She continued her education at the School of America Ballet with a scholarship. Recently, Ms. Carvalho has worked with Gregory Schramel and Marjorie Hardwick in the newly formed New Orleans Ballet Theatre. She has performed with the Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble in Black Rain at Zilkha Hall in the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts. She currently resides in New Orleans but returns to Houston to work as a guest artist with the Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble, MECA, and the Sandra Organ Dance Company.
Sasha Filipovich joined the Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble in January 2006. She has performed with the Ensemble in Black Rain at Zilkha Hall in the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts and in the premieres of Confusion of Angels and Sweet Land at Barnevelder Theater and the Performing Arts Center at Houston Community College Northewst. She is also currently the Ballet Mistress of Houston Repertoire Ballet, where she teaches, choreographs and performs. She has danced with the Lake Erie Ballet in Erie, Pennsylvania. She studied teaching and choreography with Tauna Hunter at Mercyhurst College, and received her early training with Margo Marshall and Victoria Vittum in Houston, Texas.
Sasha Filipovich in Confusion of Angels
Naomi Glass is a former soloist with the Houston Ballet. Some of her favorite roles include Stanton Welch’s Madame Butterfly and Indigo, Ben Stevenson’s Three Preludes, Evening Pas de Deux, Five Poems, Dusk and Twilight; Nacho Duato’s Without Words; Trey McIntyre’s Second Before the Ground and “Wendy” in Peter Pan. In 1997, she was nominated by Ben Stevenson to represent Houston Ballet for the Princess Grace Award. A native of Mercer Island, Washington, Ms. Glass trained at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, San Francisco Ballet School and Houston Ballet Academy before joining Houston Ballet in 1994. She recently retired from her soloist position and is teaching ballet and freelancing.
Michele Brangwen is Artistic Director of the Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble, a performing arts company that presents year round performances of contemporary dance to live original music. Ms. Brangwen has performed her work at the Interart Annex in New York City, and in venues throughout Houston, including the Cullen Theatre, Wortham Center; Stude Concert Hall; Moores Opera House; Miller Outdoor Theatre, and DiverseWorks Artspace. A native of New York, Ms. Brangwen trained at the Martha Graham Center for Contemporary Dance, New York University, and with noted ballet teacher Nancy Bielski at the David Howard School.
Michele Brangwen with Thomas Helton in Desesperados
Lindsey McGill with Carol Morgan in Sweet Land
Sandra Organ Solis was a soloist with Houston Ballet and its first African-American female ballerina, leaving the company after fifteen seasons to work as a guest artist, independent choreographer, and become Artistic Director of Sandra Organ Dance Company (SODC), a contemporary ballet ensemble in Houston, Texas, founded in 1997. Her international career with the Houston Ballet encompassed a diverse range of roles in the classical and contemporary realm, from choreographers Ben Stevenson, Frederick Ashton, George Balanchine, and Sir Kenneth MacMillian to Christopher Bruce, James Kudelka and Paul Taylor. She is on the faculty of Houston Ballet Academy, Houston High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, and instructs dance ensembles at St Johns School.
