The Company

Born in Buffalo, New York, Ms. Wolfe has a B.A. degree in Theater (Summa cum Laude) from Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio and a M.F.A. in Dance from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX where she twice received the Meadows Award as an outstanding dance student, and won the Betty Ferguson Award as Outstanding Graduate student.  As a professional dancer, Ms. Wolfe was a soloist with Ballet Dallas, Ballet Midland, Irving Ballet, Richardson Ballet, Dallas Metropolitan Ballet, Southwest Dance Collective, and Berea Summer Theatre.  After moving to Manassas in 1990, Ms. Wolfe became a teacher at the Manassas School of Dance (now MBA) and a principal dancer with Manassas Dance Company (now MBT).  In 1997, Ms. Wolfe became Associate Director of MBT and helped lead the expansion of the Company into a professional ballet company.  In 1999, she became Artistic Director of Manassas Ballet Theatre.  In 2008, Ms. Wolfe was presented with the Seefeldt Pioneer Award for Arts Excellence by the Prince William County Park Authority Arts Council for her contributions to the areas art community.  Under her leadership, MBT has become the largest performing arts organization in Northern Virginia.

After graduating in 1989 from the Novosibirsk Ballet Academy in Russia, Mr. Slatvitskiy became the principal dancer with the Novosibirsk Theatre from 1989 until 2000 where he danced in many productions. In 2000, he became a principal dancer with the Grigorovich Ballet Company in Russia.  He has also appeared as a guest dancer across the United States.  He has danced the principal roles in The Nutcracker, Giselle, La Fille Mal Gardee, Don Quixote, Frankenstein and Cinderella just to name a few.  Mr. Slatvitskiy has toured around the world, including countries such as Argentina, China, Egypt, England, Germany and Italy.  Mr. Slatvitskiy serves as primary choreographer, ballet master, and dancer for Manassas Ballet Theatre as well as a principal teacher and Youth American Grand Prix coach for Manassas Ballet Academy.  Mr. Slavitskiy joined MBT in 2006.

Mr. Burnham was born in Lake Tahoe, CA and started his ballet training at Santa Cruz Ballet under the direction of Robert Kelly and Diane Cypher. He continued his training in Washington at Mid-Columbia Ballet under Debra Rogo. At age 13, he received full scholarships to San Francisco Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and Houston Ballet. In 2004, he joined San Francisco Ballet where he performed in such ballets as Helgi Tomasson’s Meiston’s Mozart, and Balanchine’s Stars and Stripes and The Four Temperments. In 2006, Mr. Burnham joined Cincinnati Ballet where he danced many lead roles. He has worked with choreographers Jorma Elo, Val Caniparoli, Mark Morris, Trey McIntyre, James Kudelka, and Twyla Tharp. In 2009-2011, he performed with Ballet Theatre of Maryland dancing as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet and the Cavalier in The Nutcracker among other roles. Mr. Burnham joined MBT in 2012. He is a teacher and YAGP coach for Manassas Ballet Academy and Assistant Ballet Master at MBT.

From Egypt, Mr. Nabil graduated from the Higher Institute of Ballet, the Academy of Arts and then received his Bachelor’s Degree in Choreography. He has earned several awards including First Prize (twice) at the Classical Ballet Competition of the Egyptian Ministry of Culture. Ahmed was a principal dancer with the Cairo Opera House where he danced many leading roles including Siegfried in Swan Lake, Basilio in Don Quixote, Romeo and Romeo and Juliet. He became the Assistant Director of the Cairo Opera Ballet Company in 2012. His ballet, Exit Door, won the Critics Award as best Egyptian Ballet in 2014. Mr. Nabil joined MBT in 2018 and also teaches at Manassas Ballet Academy.

Mr. Amrayev was born in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and recieved his ballet training from A. Seleznev Choreographic School of Almaty from 1996 until 2004. After graduating with honors from the school, he was a principal dancer with the National Opera and Ballet House in Almaty from 2004 until 2013, where he danced in many productions such as Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Badhchisarai Fountain, Taras Bulba, Legend of Love. Mr. Amrayev then danced in the Russian National Ballet of Sergey and Elena Radchenko from 2013 until 2014. Mr. Amrayev joined MBT in 2014.

Ms. Bartlett is a Maryland native and a 2016 graduate of Goucher College in Baltimore, where she finished Magna Cum Laude with a BA in dance and minor in psychology. Ms. Bartlett spent the 2016-17 season with Charlottesville Ballet as trainee, where she danced several corps de ballet roles, including The Nutcracker’s Waltz of the Flowers. She was invited as guest artist by Howard County Ballet in 2013-2015 to dance Sugar Plum Fairy. Ms. Bartlett received the majority of her training at Glen Burnie, MD’s Edna Lee Dance Studio, where she eventually taught ballet, pointe, jazz and contemporary/lyrical as well as choreographed for the school.  Ms. Bartlett joined MBT in 2017 and teaches at Manassas Ballet Academy.

Alice De Nardi

Originally from Italy, Alice De Nardi began the study of ballet at the age of 6 at Academy Teatro alla Scala di Milano in Milan, Italy. Ms. De Nardi graduated from the Ukrainian Academy of Ballet of Kiev in 2012. In June 2005, she received a scholarship for the Royal Ballet School in London, and in 2010, participated at the International competition of Opera Kiev in Ukraine. Ms. De Nardi performed in Italy at Arena di Verona Theater with La Divina Commedia Ballet. In 2011, she toured Europe with the Royal Czech Ballet Company performing as a soloist in Giselle. After graduation, she danced with the Macedonian Opera and Ballet as a soloist in Skopje and touring to different European cities. In 2015, Ms. De Nardi joined the Cairo Opera House as a First Soloist. Also in 2015, she participated at the Domenico Modugno competition at the Petruzzelli Theater in Italy and placed in the TOP 10. In 2016, she became a classical ballet teacher at the Alexandria Bibliotheca Art Center and a ballet trainer for the Egyptian National Team of Rhythmic Gymnastics for the Smouha Sporting Club in Alexandria, Egypt. In 2018, Ms. De Nardi joined the Manassas Ballet Theatre.

Ms. Gorrell was born and raised in Manassas, Virginia.  She began dancing since the age of five, and is a recent graduate of Manassas Ballet Academy.  She was a regular participant in Youth America Grand Prix, and attended summer intensives with The School of Pennsylvania Ballet.  During her tenure with Manassas Ballet Academy, Ms. Gorrell has performed various roles with Manassas Ballet Theatre including: Snow Corp de Ballet (Nutcracker 2017-2019 and 2021), Swan Corp de Ballet (Swan Lake 2018), and Clara (Nutcracker 2019 and 2021). This is Ms. Gorrell’ s first season with Manassas Ballet Theatre.

Originally from Brazil, Ms. Greer started dancing at the age of twelve.  In Sao Paulo, she joined Renata Reys “Produdoes e Eventos” for two years as a dancer and taught ballet classes, as well.  Ms. Greer first came to the United States for a summer intensive at Ballet Chicago in 2012, then studied on a full scholarship in the year-round program with Chicago Ballet Arts.  In 2014, she began studying at the Joffrey Ballet School in New York as a ballet trainee for two years, dancing as a guest artist with Eglevsky Ballet for “The Nutcracker” in 2015 with Homo Veritas Dance Theatre in 2016.  She studied with Mrs. Ashley Tuttle during the summer of 2016. Ms. Greer attended Nashville Ballet Summer Intensive for Professional Dancers in 2019 with a partial scholarship, and she was a weekly winner of New York Dance Project quarantine choreography contest 2020. Ms. Greer joined MBT in 2016, joined the MBA teaching staff in 2017, and has choreographed for the company.

Ms. Locke, from Chattanooga, TN, where she began her training at the VanCura Ballet Conservatory.  She attended high school on scholarship at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts under the direction of Ethan Stiefel.  She attended summer intensives at Ballet Tennessee, Joffrey Midwest, American Ballet Theatre, Kaatsbaan and Boston Ballet.  She began her professional career as a trainee with Richmond Ballet.  She then danced with Ballet Tennessee performing roles such as Odette/Odile in Swan Lake, Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker, and Aurora in Sleeping Beauty.  Hannah joined MBT in 2018. She is also a teacher at Manassas Ballet Academy and a Publicity and Marketing Assistant with MBT.

Kurumi Miwa is from Tokyo where she began her ballet training at age 3. At 19 years old  she was awarded a merit scholarship to continue her training at the Joffrey School of Ballet in New York where she trained under the direction of Era Jouravlev. At Joffrey she danced the roles of Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and was a principal dancer in Naina’s Magic Garden. Ms. Miwa has also trained with the Central School of Ballet in London, the Royal Danish Ballet, Milwaukee Ballet, Oklahoma City Ballet and Maryland Youth Ballet. In 2018, Ms. Miwa took 1st place at the Japan Ballet Competition where she also received the Technical Award and a Special Judges award. During 2019, she took 1st place in the Jewels Ballet Festival Competition and 2nd place at the World Ballet Grand Prix in New York. Ms. Miwa joined MBT in March, 2021.

Mr Myers began his training at the age of 7 at Dancensations Dance Center in Alexandria, VA. He continued his training at Lake Ridge Dance Center in Woodbridge, under ballet instruction of Margaret Russell, Julianne Russell, and Joshua Burnham, which lead him to join Manassas Ballet Academy as a student in 2018. As a student, Mr. Myers has performed varying roles in Manassas Ballet Theatre productions, including the roles of Fritz in The Nutcracker in 2018 and 2019 and Harlequin and Chinese in 2020. In 2008, he attended a summer intensive with The Dance Theatre Of Harlem on full scholarship.   

This is Jacob’s first season as a company member with MBT.

Mr. Orrego is a Northern Virginian, having attended Woodbridge High School. His training was at Manassas Ballet Academy and The Rock School. Mr. Orrego then graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a BFA degree in Ballet performance. He began his professional career as a Company Member of Sacramento Ballet for five years. In addition, he has been a guest artist at Indianapolis Ballet and Des Moines Ballet. Mr. Orrego joined MBT in 2021.

Zoe Segura, originally from Midland, Texas, began her training at Midland Festival Ballet under the direction of Susan Clark and Judy Coleman. Additional training has been at Milwaukee Ballet, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, the National Choreographic Intensive, Texas Ballet Theater, and Burklyn Ballet on scholarship. After graduating high school, Zoe went on to dance with Texas Ballet Theater’s Studio Company and then joined Virginia National Ballet in 2021. This is her first season with MBT.

Alex Tyree was born in Okinawa to a Marine family. Raised in Northern Virginia he started dance through a performing arts program at Woodbridge Senior High School. Finding that he enjoyed and excelled at dance, Mr. Tyree began taking dance classes at a local dance studio in Woodbridge. In 2018 he began training at Manassas Ballet Academy and performing with the Manassas Youth Ballet. Alex joined the Company in 2021. .

Ms. Wilde, from Madison, NJ, began her training with Leslie Drucks at the Studio Allegro School of Ballet.  She continued her training as a junior company member with the New Jersey Ballet, under the direction of Carolyn Clark.  Ms. Wilde has attended summer intensives with Ballet Chicago, American Ballet Theatre, New Jersey Ballet and Atlanta Ballet. She is pursuing her BFA in Ballet Performance at the University of Cincinnati.  Hallie joined MBT in 2018.