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	NILE BAKER originally from California, moved to Michigan and trained at the O’Day School of Dance in Detroit with Sergey Rayevskiy at the Academy of Russian Classical Ballet in Novi, at Wayne State University,  and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He holds a BFA from the Ailey School/Fordham University.  Nile is currently performing at the Metropolitan Opera in productions of Carmen, Don Giovanni, Rigoletto, Pince Igor, and Rusalka. Nile also works with Bradley Shelver Contemporary Dance Theater and Indelible Dance. He has toured with RKB since 2012 during its summer programs in the North Country, and has appeared with the Company in its annual performances at City Center Studios, in SoHo in RKB's Nutcracker Highlights, and as an RKB Guest Artist in the role of Grand Pas. His RKB repertory includes Apayaana, Filigree, Turbulence, Dispossessed, Tenderness of Wolves, Cascade, Desire, and Earth from Adirondack Elemental, Spice Suite and Entanglement..
	ERIN GINN was trained in Kingsport, TN and the Walnut Hill School in Natick, MA. She was a Junior competitor at the 2002 International Ballet Competition in Jackson, and danced with Cincinnati Ballet as an apprentice. She holds a BS from Indiana University in Ballet Performance with an Outside Field in Communication and Culture. Erin has danced with SensDance, Felice Lesser Dance Theater, Eryc Taylor Dance, Connecticut Ballet, Columbia City Ballet, Bristol Ballet. Erin has appeared with Rebecca Kelly Ballet since 2008 in many projects including the development of Writing in Water, and numerous RKB Highlights from the Nutcracker Ballet. In 2015 she joins RKB as part of the ensemble for the Company's 34th Onstage Performance Program in the Adirondack Mountains at the Lake Placid Center for the Arts, and part of the original cast for Cascade. Her RKB repertory also includes Desire, Apayaana, and Waters and the solo Snow from Adirondack Elemental, Spice Suite and Entanglement.. Erin is a certified Pilates Mat instructor and teaches in New York City.
	ALLISON PICCONE is originally from Blackwood, NJ. She trained at Princeton Ballet School under Douglas Martin. She started her professional career at American Repertory Ballet, where she performed roles such as Lead Arabian and Lead Spanish in The Nutcracker. She first appeared in Rebecca Kelly Ballet's preview performance of "Cascade" at City Center Studio in 2015. She joined RKB in 2016, and participated in its annual summer tour to the Adirondack Mountains. Her RKB repertory includes Cascade, Desire, Apayaana, Waters from Adirondack Elemental, Spice Suite and Entanglement.
	KYLE GERRY was born in Eugene, Oregon. He attended Columbia University, from which he graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Economics and Political Science. He was a scholarship student at the Merce Cunningham studios, and danced as a guest with the Cunningham Repertory Understudy Group in its final year. He then danced for Christopher Williams, notably in the Perm Opera's production of Indian Queen and the National Opera of Bordeaux's production of Dardanus. From 2017-18 he was a member of the Lucinda Childs Dance Company, performing her iconic works such as Dance, Radial Courses, and Available Light.  Kyle is excited to embark upon his first season with Rebecca Kelly Ballet.
RKB Artists, Partners, Alumni, Guests, and Beautiful Friends ..."your visual polyphony, a kind of choral choreography which makes the heart sing"...
	Kate Abarelli Emily Sorelle Adams Mona Afable Giorgia Bovo* Robin Cantrell Joshua Christopher Jonathan Collins Lalasa Cuomo Maddie Deavenport Uthman Ebrahim Alexander Forsythe David Guggino Julie Hebb* Chris Hemmans Francesco LaMacchia Raul Peinado Carlos Renedo Sean Scantlebury Lara Vilches Therese Wendler* Royce Zackery Our amazing photographers: Todd Bissonette, Adrian Buckmaster, Appleby, Lisa Keegan
	Guest: DUNCAN COOPER, former Principal Dancer, Dance Theater of Harlem. from NYC and San Francisco. Duncan partnered Therese Wendler for SILVER CIRCLES, after the fall, at RKB 25th Anniversary season, and as cavallier in Nutcracker Ballet"	Guest: JARED MATTHEWS Soloist, ABT in Kelly's ballet noir THE TRAVELERS, RKB 25th Anniversary season.
Company masterclass with Karin Averty,Premiere Danseuse, Paris Opera Ballet, Principal Dancer, San Franciso Ballet
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