PRINCIPAL COMPANY TEACHER
Denise Grothman
Originaly from Connecticut, at the age of twelve she was invited to study at
the School of American Ballet in New York City. Denise studied at SAB for seven
years under the direction of George Balanchine and Peter Martins. After graduating
in 1988, she became a member of American Ballet Theatre under the leadership
of Mikhail Baryshnikov. In her twelve years at ABT, she performed in all of
the full length ballets including Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet, Sleeping Beauty,
Don Quixote, La Bayadere, Cinderella, Othello, Coppelia, and the Nutcracker
Suite, at major venues throughout the United States and the world including
theaters in Tokyo, Athens, Paris, London, Madrid, Palermo, Genoa, Vienna, Copenhagen,
Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Seoul, and Istanbul. Mrs. Grothman worked with
such notable choreographers as Twyla Tharp, Lar Lubovich, John Neumiere, Agnes
De Mille, Glen Tetley and Natalia Makarova. Teaching: Ballet Technique, Pointe,
Variations.
