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about me
Height: 5'7"
Hi! My name is McKenna Ulbrick. I am currently a ballet dancer and a Trainee with Grand Rapids Ballet. Dance allows me to express myself and communicate with others. I have a lot of company experience and am eager and excited to start my professional career.
training
Grand Rapids Ballet Trainee 2024-2025
The Washington School of Ballet Trainee 2023-2024
The Washington School of Ballet PTD 2022-2023
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San Francisco Ballet School 2020-2022
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The Rock School for Dance Education 2018-2020
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Skye Ballet Center 2015-2018
Summer courses
The Royal Ballet School Summer Intensive, Covent Garden 2023
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San Francisco Ballet School Online Summer Session 2020
Bolshoi Ballet Academy Summer Program 2019
NSLI-Y Program with the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow (Scholarship) 2019
The Rock School for Dance Education Summer Program (Scholarship) 2017, 2018
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Selected awards
First Place Senior Classical, DC Grand Prix 2023
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Merit Scholarship, San Francisco Ballet School 2020-2022
Merit Scholarship, The Rock School for Dance Education 2017-2020
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Second Place Senior Classical, YAGP New York Semifinal 2020
selected repertoire
Grand Rapid Ballet’s The Nutcracker (Snowflake, Flower, and party parent) 2024
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James Sofranko’s Juliet’s Friends 2024
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James Cunningham’s Reinhardt Rhythms 2024
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Awakening of Flora soloist staged and choreographed by Xiomara Reyes 2023, 2024
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Imaginarium soloist choreographed by Mimmo Miccolis 2024
La Esmeralda soloist staged by Xiomara Reyes and Rinat Imaev 2024
The Washington Ballet’s The Nutcracker (Maid, Aunt Pat, Snowflake, Flower, Ribbon Dancer, Cardinal) 2022, 2023
La Bayadere Pas de Trois staged by Xiomara Reyes and Rinat Imaev 2023
The Washington Ballet’s Sleeping Beauty (Nurse, Nymph) 2023
True Identity by Mimmo Miccolis 2023
Odalisque Pas de Trois from Le Corsaire staged by Xiomara Reyes and Rinat Imaev 2022
San Francisco Ballet’s The Nutcracker (Flower, Young Woman) 2021
Soloist in pieces by Julia Erickson and Zippora Karz at the Ashley Bouder Project Gala 2019
Balanchine’s Valse Fantaisie (staged by Zippora Karz) at the Ballet in the City Gala 2018
The Rock School for Dance Education’s Nutcracker 1776 (Snowflake, Flower) 2018
Professional References
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Sona Kharatian
Cynthia Sofranko
Francoise Thovenuey Doyle
Zippora Karz