Lexington Ballet Professional Company
Meghana Bendre
Meghana Bendre
Meghana Bendre began her training at The School of Dance West Ballet in Naperville, Illinois. She attended Regional Dance America festivals throughout her years at school. Additionally, Meghana furthered her training at summer programs with the Kirov Academy in DC, Bolshoi Ballet Summer Intensive in NYC, and the Milwaukee Ballet Summer Program under scholarship. In 2022, Meghana graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance Performance and a minor in Education from Butler University with highest distinction. While at Butler, she was recognized with the Jordan College of the Arts Deans Scholarship and the Peggy Dorsey Memorial Ballet Scholarship. She has had the opportunity to perform corps, demi-soloist, and soloist roles in Butler Ballet productions. Her most notable performances, while at Butler, include Giselle in Giselle, Waltz Girl in George Balanchine’s Serenade, the Sugarplum Fairy and Mirliton’s lead in The Nutcracker, as well as Pas de Trois des Odalisques in Le Corsaire. Meghana is looking forward to the upcoming season with the Lexington Ballet!
Kayleigh Western
Kayleigh Western
Kayleigh Western is from Lexington, Kentucky and has been dancing for 20 years. Her training began at the Lexington Ballet in 2002 and continued both there and at the School for the Creative and Performing Arts until 2015. In 2015, she became one of the inaugural students of Cary Ballet Conservatory’s Professional Training Program under the guidance of Mariaelena Ruiz. During her time at Cary Ballet Conservatory, she competed and received recognition in many competitions, such as Youth America Grand Prix, World Ballet Competition, and American Dance Competition. As a result of her success in these competitions, she was selected to be featured in Pointe Magazine and photographed for the cover of Dance Teacher Magazine. During her summers, she had the privilege of working with renowned dancers while attending summer courses at Pacific Northwest Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Boston Ballet, Next Generation Ballet, and Ballet Chicago, many on scholarship.
Kayleigh has since danced with the Louisville Ballet, where she performed soloist roles in both classical and contemporary works choreographed by George Balanchine, Stanton Welch, Ronald Hynd, and Val Caniparoli, among many other esteemed choreographers. After a year of free-lancing, she is thrilled to return to the Lexington Ballet as a company member.
Janna Turner
Janna Turner
Janna Turner, an Eastern Kentucky native, was first professionally trained at the Kirov Academy of Ballet of Washington, D.C.. In 2015, she undertook training at the prestigious Houston Ballet Academy for two years. After, as a trainee with Cincinnati Ballet, she performed corps roles in notable works such as Victoria Morgan’s The Nutcracker, George Balanchine’s Walpurgisnacht, Septime Webre’s Peter Pan, and Devon Carney’s The Sleeping Beauty. She then joined De la Dance Company, performing soloist and corps roles in classical ballets including Paquita, La Bayadère, and Swan Lake. She now returns to Kentucky to dance with Lexington Ballet for the 2022-2023 season.
Haley Mauldin
Haley Maudlin
Haley Mauldin was born in Aspen, Colorado, and started taking dance classes at the age of 2. She later moved to Encino, California where her training continued with Los Angeles Ballet Academy until 2018. Under the direction of Andrea-Paris Gutierrez, Mauldin completed all Royal Academy of Dance examinations with Distinction, and the ABT National Training Curriculum Level 7.
In 2018, Mauldin was accepted into Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre’s Graduate Program, where she received four years of training under the direction of Janet Popeleski, Marjorie Grundvig, and Dennis Marshall. She had the opportunity to perform excerpts of ballets such as Divertimento No. 15, Serenade, Raymonda, Terrence Orr’s Nutcracker, Giselle, and Susan Jaffe’s Swan Lake. Haley is thrilled to be joining Lexington Ballet Company for its comeback season!
Duncan Gwinn
Duncan Gwinn
Duncan has had a love of ballet since the day he started dancing at the age of two. He began serious training at the Nutmeg Ballet Conservatory, under Victoria Mazzarelli and Tim Melady. At the Nutmeg, he performed excerpts from classical ballets, such as Don Quixote, Coppelia, and Le Corsaire. After graduating, he became a trainee at Tulsa Ballet, where he performed in Ma Cong and Val Caniparoli’s The Nutcracker and Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s Vendetta: A Mafia Story.
Alex Bellocq
Alex Bellocq
Alex was born and raised in America to a French father and American mother. He began training in various kinds of dance as a teenager, before pursuing a classical dance education alongside his Bachelor’s degree of Fine Arts at Northern Kentucky University. He graduated summa cum laude in 2020 with a degree in Dance Performance after completing an abroad year of study in Israel, at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance of Hebrew University. He has studied at various ballets in the Midwest, such as BalletMet Columbus, De La dance company, and the Lexington Ballet. Alex Bellocq has joined the Lexington Ballet as a company dancer for the ‘22-‘23 season.
Lexington Ballet Student Company
Gianna Asbridge
Lexington, KY
Joined Student Company in 2020
Gianna Asbridge
Gianna Asbridge
Gianna is in the class of ‘25 at Lexington Catholic High School. This is her ninth year attending Lexington Ballet Company. Gianna loves going to ballet and being taught by amazing and inspiring instructors. Lexington Ballet has taught her many lessons that will help her in the future. She has been in multiple performances including Midsummer Night’s Dream, Jungle Book, Alice in Wonderland, numerous Nutcracker shows and many more.
Cate Couch
Lexington, KY
Joined Student company in 2020
Cate Couch
Cate Couch:
Cate is in the class of 2025 at Lafayette High School. This will be her 11th year dancing at Lexington Ballet. Cate attended middle school at The School for the Creative and Performing Arts – SCAPA – as a ballet major and continues in the SCAPA ballet program at Lafayette HS. She has attended many summer intensives at LBC and numerous master classes and workshops under notable instructors including David Reuille, Elena Bartley, Sergey Reyevsky, Mariaelena Ruiz, Alvin Ailey School, NYCB, and Skylar Brandt of ABT. She has danced in many LBC performances including Midsummer Night’s Dream, Snow White, Cinderella, Jungle Book, The Tales of Beatrix Potter, and various Nutcrackers. Cate is most thankful for her amazing teachers who have taught her so well, help support her dreams, and treat the students like family.
Siiri Ensmann
Lexington, KY
Joined Student Company in 2020
Siiri Ensmann
Siiri Ensmann is in the class of 2025 at the Liberal Arts Academy at Henry Clay high school in Lexington. They began dancing at Lexington Ballet when they were three and have been studying ballet for eleven years including a year at Ponsonby School of Dance in Auckland, New Zealand and a year at Tähtvere Tantsukeskus in Tartu, Estonia. They have performed with the Lexington Ballet in the Nutcracker, The Magical Tales of Beatrix Potter, and the Jungle Book with a variety of roles: spanish, a rat, and many more.
Evelyn Hruby
Lexington, KY
Joined Student Company 2018
Evelyn Hruby
Evelyn Hruby
Evelyn Hruby is in the Class of 2024 at Lafayette High School and has been a student at the Lexington Ballet School since the age of six, where she has danced in several productions, including Coppelia, Snow White, The Nutcracker, and Alice In Wonderland, among others. She has attended summer intensives at American Ballet Theater, The Ailey School, The Cary Ballet Conservatory, and The Lexington Ballet.
Payton Vickey
Lexington, KY
Joined Student Company in 2020
Payton Vickey
Payton Vickey
Payton is in the Class of ‘25 at West Jessamine High School pursuing the biomed pathway. She has been a student at Lexington Ballet since 2018 and most recently attended Butler University Ballet Summer Intensive in Indianapolis. Payton’s previous summer intensives include Cincinnati Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, and Lexington Ballet. She has attended numerous workshops and conventions including Duncan Cooper Winter and Summer Workshops, 24/7, NUVO, and Revel Dance Conventions. Payton was chosen to be a Pro-Reveler with Revel Dance Convention for the ‘21-’22 season. She is a part of Francisco Gella’s Preprofessional Dancer Institute Class of ‘20 and ‘21. Payton has performed in Ballet Under the Stars and The Nutcracker with Lexington Ballet.
Addyson Seale
Lexington, KY
Joined student Company in 2020
Addyson Seale
Addyson Seale
Addyson is in the class of 2026 at the School for Creative and Performing Arts at Lafayette High School as a ballet major. She is also in the Pre-engineering program there as well. Addyson has been dancing at the Lexington Ballet since 2020. This is her 14th year of dancing. She has attended many summer intensives at LBC and numerous master classes and workshops locally. She has danced in many LBC performances of Nutcracker and most recently Snow White. Addyson loves the environment at LBC where students’ love of ballet is fostered by the talented and supportive faculty.
Emmy Woosley
Lexington, KY
Joined Student Company in 2020
Emmy Woosley
Emmy Woosley is dancing in her 11th year with the Lexington Ballet Company. She is in the 8th grade at SCAPA Bluegrass where she is a ballet major and visual arts minor. This is her 9th year performing in LBC’s Nutcracker, one of her favorite ballets.
Anna Claire Williams
Lexington, KY
Joined Student Company in 2022
Anna Claire Williams
Anna Claire Williams
Anna is in the class of ‘26 at Lafayette High School. She attended middle school at the School for Creative and Performing Arts (SCAPA) as a ballet major and continues in the program at Lafayette. She started dancing as a student with Lexington Ballet Company at the age of 6. Anna has attended summer intensives and master classes at LBC and Cary Ballet under notable instructors including Elena Bartley and Mariaelena Ruiz. She has danced in many Lexington Ballet performances including Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cinderella, Jungle Book, The Tales of Beatrix Potter, Snow White, and numerous Nutcracker performances. Anna has also performed in various SCAPA and Ballet Under the Stars productions.
Audition Information
At least 18 years of age by July 1.
High-school graduate by July 1.
Injury-free for the last year.
USA citizen or proof of appropriate work visa for employment in the United States.
Email us to sign up for an audition master class with the Ayako Hasebe Lloyd and Nancy Dominguez.
Registered applicants will be contacted to provide a head shot, resume or CV, and photo of ID. Audition day and time will be confirmed after review.
September – February with a weekly stipend and pointe shoes allowance.
Attend all classes and rehearsals with the Lexington Ballet Company.
Participate in all Lexington Ballet Company performances and community events. Casting is at the sole discretion of the Artistic Director.
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Testimonials
“Lexington Ballet is where my dreams came true. Dancing professionally in the company for a decade has taught me to always be disciplined, to be inspired, and the importance of giving back to the community. The incredible experience with the company and the opportunity to teach at the school has shaped me into who I am today. “
