Dancer Bios

Olivia Roman

16 years old, Ventura High School Years dancing: 14 Professional summer intensives admissions & acceptances: San Francisco Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Marat Daukayev School of Ballet, State Street Ballet Academic awards: Full scholarship to San Francisco Ballet Summer Intensive, Outstanding Musicianship Award for Saxophone, 1st place contemporary piece and 2nd place for ballet variation at California Classics 2017

Emma Steiner

16 years old, Ventura High School Years dancing: 14 Professional summer intensives admissions & acceptances: Ellison Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, American Ballet Theater, Joffrey Ballet, The Rock (scholarship), Marat Daukayev School of Ballet, State Street Ballet Academic awards: The Rock school summer intensive scholarship, 1st place California Dance Classics, 2nd place California Dance Classics

Ella Ullrich

16 years old, Ventura High School Years dancing: 10 Professional summer intensives admissions & acceptances: San Francisco Ballet, Marat Daukayev School of Ballet, State Street Ballet Academic awards: Honor Roll

Nika Wallach

15 years old, Ventura High School Years dancing: 13 Professional summer intensives admissions & acceptances: State Street Ballet Academic awards: Girl Scout Silver Award, Community service

Tiera Walsh

16 years old, Ventura High School Years dancing: 12 Professional summer intensives: State Street Ballet Academic awards: Community service

PRE-PROFESSIONAL

PRE-PROFESSIONAL

Quinn Ferguson

17 years old, Ventura High School Years dancing: 14 (5 at BAV)

Professional summer intensives admissions &

acceptances: Marat Daukayev School of Ballet, State Street Ballet Academic awards: Honor Roll, Society of Women Engineers Certificate of Merit

Ella Hoyt

17 years old, Foothill Technology High School Years dancing: 15

Professional summer intensives admissions &

acceptances: ABT New York, Joffrey Chicago, Ballet West Academic Awards: Ballet Academy Ventura Dancer of the Year 2018, California Dance Classics Bronza, FTHS Renaissance 4 years

Caroline Marsden

17 years old, Ventura High School Years dancing: 12

Professional summer intensives admissions &

acceptances: Marat Daukayev School of Ballet Academic awards: Quill and Scroll Society, Honor Roll, Los Angeles Times High School Insider, Mock Trial attorney, Editor-in-chief of The Cougar Press

Greta Pankratz

17 years old. Ventura High School Years dancing: 15

Professional summer intensives admissions &

acceptances: School of American Ballet New York City, Marat Daukayev School of Ballet, Cuizon Ballet Centre, Ballet Academy Ventura, accepted to Joffrey Ballet summer intensive Academic awards: Honor Roll, California Scholarship Federation, National Honor Society, Society of Women Engineers Certificate of Merit winner, Editor-in-Chief of school newspaper, first place for duets at California Dance Classics 2017

Greta, Caroline, Ella, and Quinn are high school and Ballet Academy Ventura seniors. This is a very special performance for them, as they will be dancing in the Nutcracker by Ventura County Ballet for the last time as BAV students. Let us take a moment and look back at their years in Ballet Academy Ventura.