Indianapolis International Ballet Competition
Jolinda Menenedez
(Performance and Master Class Director of Indianapolis City Ballet/ Indianapolis International Ballet Competition)
Ms. Menendez directs Indianapolis City Ballet’s performances since 2009 and heads the Master Class program that has brought more than 25 internationally renowned master teachers to Indianapolis. She is on the faculty at NYU/Tisch School of the Arts and is a frequent guest teacher with companies and schools including The Royal Ballet School in London, English National Ballet School, American Ballet Theatre’s summer intensives, Houston Ballet’s Ben Stevenson Academy, the Joffrey Ballet School, American Academy of Dance in Paris, National Ballet of Canada School, the John Cranko School at Stuttgart Ballet, Scottish Ballet Company and Ballet Ireland. In addition, she coaches privately students and professionals.
As a former ballerina with American Ballet Theatre, she has performed leading roles in La Bayadere, Giselle, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Les Sylphides, The Firebird, Raymonda Act III, and other repertoire by choreographers such as Alvin Ailey, Agnes de Mille, Kenneth MacMillan and Glen Tetley. Lewis Segal of the L.A. TIMES said: “Jolinda’s performance of ‘The Dying Swan’ was dance poetry – a quality Pavlova’s name has always symbolized – you could understand why Natalia Makarova has championed her as a major artist.”
Following ABT she was Principal Ballerina with the Bavarian National Ballet in Munich, Germany, where she added to her repertoire John Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet, Eugene Onegin and Taming of the Shrew, John Neumeir’s Nutcracker, Birgit Cullberg’s Miss Julie, and Balanchine’s Apollo and Divertimento No. 15. She was a frequent guest artist in Europe, Canada, Australia, and South Africa. For additional information please visit https://sites.google.com/site/jolindamenendez/
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