Rosalia Chann As a native of Vineland, New Jersey, Rosalia performed with the Vineland Regional Dance Company as a soloist for seven years before moving to Philadelphia to attend The University of the Arts. She graduated with honors in May 2007 with a BFA in Jazz Dance Performance. Her previous training includes Philadanco, The Juilliard School, American Ballet Theatre, The Rock School and Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet. This is Rosalia’s first season with BalletX.

Tara Keating Tara began her training at the age of seven at the Pioneer Valley Ballet in Northampton, Massachusetts. She then attended the Juillliard School from which she received a BFA in 1995. While there, she was awarded the Jerome L. Greene Fellowship and the Most Outstanding Dance Major award from the National Dance Association. She began her professional career with the American Repertory Ballet and then joined Tharp!, where she performed internationally and at the City Center in NYC. Tara joined the Pennsylvania Ballet in 1998, and was promoted to Soloist in 2003. During her ten year career there, she danced leading roles in numerous classical and contemporary works such as Emilia in Jose Limon's "The Moor's Pavane", Hippoylyta, Hermia, and Helena in George Balanchine's "Midsummer Night's Dream", principal roles in Jerome Robbins' "Fancy Free" and "The Concert", Paul Taylor's "Company B" and "Arden Court", and created original roles in numerous world premieres by Matthew Neenan. For the past two years, she has been the producing director of "Shut Up and Dance", an annual benefit for MANNA, created by the dancers of the Pennsylvania Ballet. In addition, she is an original member of BalletX, performing with them since their inception in 2005. Tara has taught master classes at Broadway Dance Center, NAADA dance conventions, and various schools throughout the region. She is currently on the ballet faculty of New Horizons Dance Alliance.

Ja’Malik Ja’Malik started training at the age of 10 at the Marguerite Duncan Studio of Fine Arts. At age 14 he was asked to study at the School of Cleveland Ballet where he was an apprentice/corps member for two years. He is an Alumnus of the Joffrey Ballet/New School B.F.A. program. He received scholarships and attended; School of American Ballet, School of Dance Theater of Harlem, Joffrey Ballet School, and The Ailey School where he worked with Judith Jamison, William Forsythe, Ronald K. Brown and Dwight Rhoden. He is a former member of the Oakland Ballet, Ohio Ballet, Natahn Trice/RITUALS,Earl Mosley's Diversity of Dance, and North Carolina Dance Theatre. He is a collaborative member of Collage Dance Collective, and Camille A. Brown and Dancers, He is a former member of Cleveland Ballet, Oakland Ballet, North Carolina Dance Theatre and CiyDance Ensemble in Washington D.C.. Ja’Malik is a teacher of both Ballet and Horton Techniques. Having taught at The Ailey School, Cleveland School of Arts, North Carolina Dance Theatre and Skol De Baile in Aruba and CityDance Center, DC. Ja'Malik is also an emerging freelance choreographer under the auspice BalletBoy Productions. He recently premiered his first commissioned work for CityDance Ensemble “Broken Prayers”, in March 2008. Ja’ Malik has been nominated for several Metro DC Dance Awards for “Broken Prayers” including outstanding emerging choreographer. He has also created works for North Carolina Dance Theatre 2. Ja’ Malik is proud and happy to be working with BalletX, a company he feels is taking ballet to the Next Level...

Vincent McCloskey Vincent is a Brooklyn based freelance artist who has worked all over the world. This is his first show in Philadelphia and is enjoying getting to know the city. When not dancing, he enjoys reading a lot, bicycling, composting, volunteering, and practicing Gyrotonic™ and Buddhism.

Anitra Nurnberger Anitra Nurnberger is a native of NJ and has trained at the Pennsylvania Ballet School in Philadelphia, Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet in Carlisle, and the Royal Academy of Dancing in London. Ms. Nurnberger has had an extensive professional career with Pennsylvania Ballet Company, Ohio Ballet Company, and American Repertory Ballet. She has also been a guest artist with Phrenic New Ballet, Chamber Dance Project, and DancesPatrelle in NY. Ms. Nurnberger has been featured as a principal in ballets choreographed by George Balanchine, John Butler, Heinz Poll, Alonzo King, Donald Byrd, Thaddeus Davis, Anne Marie DeAngelo, and Jodie Gates. Her dancing ranges from classical to very contemporary. She also has a BFA from Mason Gross School of Arts at Rutgers University. Currently, Ms. Nurnberger is a principal artist of BalletNY in New York City.

Meredith Rainey Meredith Rainey, former soloist with Pennsylvania Ballet began dancing at 15 in his hometown of Fort Lauderdale. In 1985 he joined the Milwaukee Ballet. In 1987, he was asked to join the newly formed Pennsylvania-Milwaukee Ballet, remaining with the Pennsylvania Ballet when the collaboration ended. He was also a demi-soloist with the Dance Theatre of Harlem for a short time in 1997. Meredith has performed in South America throughout Europe and the United States. His repertoire includes many principal and soloist roles in the works of George Balanchine, Alvin Ailey, Paul Taylor, Lar Lubovitch, Jose Limon, John Butler, John Cranko, and William Forsythe. He has premiered original works by Kevin O’Day, Christopher D’Amboise, David Parsons, Lynne Taylor-Corbett, Robert Weiss, Richard Tanner, Jean Grand-Maitre, Dwight Rhoden, Jorma Elo, Ib Anderson, Matthew Neenan, and Christine Cox. The recipient of the 1995 & 2002 PA Council on the Arts Fellowship Grant for Choreography, the 2001 Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Artist as Catalyst Grant, the 2002 Independence Foundation Fellowship in the Arts and, a 2003 Pew Fellowship in the Arts Finalist. Meredith has been commissioned to create work for Pennsylvania Ballet, Delaware Ballet, Hubbard Street 2, Phrenic New Ballet, Ballet X, Philadanco for their 25th Anniversary celebration, and has had his work performed at many festivals throughout North and South America including Jacob’s Pillow, Miami International Ballet Festival and the International Ballet Festival of Ecuador and the First International Ballet Festival of Calí.

Emily Wagner Emily Wagner, a Michigan native, began to dabble with dancing when she was 7 years old, but only began to train seriously in ballet at the age of 15. She trained under scholarships at the Flint Youth Ballet, Virginia School of the Arts and the American Ballet Theater School. Her most influential training came from her dear friend, mentor and still current coach from the New York City Ballet, Sabrina Pillars. Emily's career began to blossom at the American Ballet Theater which then led her onto Ballet Austin, Eglevsky Ballet, Aseid Contemporary Dance Company, Albano Ballet, International Ballet Theater, Dance Continuum and eventually onwards to Europe. In 2005 Emily performed Peter Breuer's Bolero in Salzburg, Austria with the Salzburg Ballett under invitation by the Ballet Master, Yehuda Maor. The highlight during her time in Austria was having the honor of being coached by the prima ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, on the role of Kitri. For the following 2 years, she danced as a soloist with the Movement Network of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, dancing new and edgy contemporary works, as well as neo classicial works such as Balanchine. While in Europe, she also received an international Pilates certification with Body Arts and Sciences International, with additional training in NYC as well as specialties in pre-natal exercise. In under 1 year she received her international status and was invited to teach at the annual Chinese Fitness Conference in Beijing, China. Some Choreographers Emily has worked with include,: Nick Mishoe - Het Nationale Ballet, Peter Leung - Het Nationale Ballet. Lorn MacDougal – England Moderne, Celia Grannum – Ballet Black, Jennifer Hanna, - Galili Dance, NDT, Peter Breuer - Düsseldorf, Vincenzo Orlando – Eglevsky, Adam Hougland - Julliard, Victor Quijada - Rubberbanddance, Stuart Loungway - SFB/American Repertory Ballet, Dardo Galleto - Ballet de Argentino and Micheline Dumonceau – Chiztina de Chatel, among others. Back in the US, Emily has begun dancing the tango and is an artist with the The New Generation Dance Company. Also this year, Emily was titled the principal resident guest artist for the Virgina Civic Ballet. In addition she is an artist with Terra Firma Dance Theater and the Chamber Dance Project in New York City. Emily is very excited to be performing her first season with Ballet X.

Francis Veyette A California native, Francis Veyette began his dance training at age 10 at Dance Arts in Visalia, California. He also studied at Westside Ballet in Santa Monica and took summer sessions at The School of American Ballet in New York City and The Rock School for Dance Education in Philadelphia. Mr. Veyette began as an Apprentice with the Pennsylvania Ballet in 1997 and was promoted to the Corps de Ballet in September 1999. Featured roles included Candy Cane and Tea in George Balanchine's The Nutcracker, Bluebird in The Sleeping Beauty, Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew and Titania's Cavalier in A Midsummer Night's Dream. In August of 2003, Mr. Veyette joined Kansas City Ballet under the artistic direction of William Whitener, where he danced for two seasons. Featured roles inculded the principal couple in Balanchine's Square Dance, Cavalier and Drosselmeyer in The Nutcracker, the Husband in Jerome Robbins' The Concert and the principal couple in Paquita. He appeared as a guest artist for Pennsylvania Ballet on three occasions during the 2004-2005 Season, before returning to the Company for the 2006-2007 Season as a member of the Corps de Ballet. Mr. Veyette has been promoted to Soloist for the 2007-2008 Season. In addition, Mr. Veyette has made guest appearances with Massachusetts Youth Ballet, Westside Ballet and Festival Ballet Theatre. He also appeared in Japan during the summers of 2002 and 2004, dancing Balanchine's Tschaikovsky's Pas de Deux, Giselle and Le Corsaire.