Grace-Anne Powers

GRACE-ANNE POWERS, a Pennsylvania native, began her ballet training at Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet and continued her studies at the Art of Classical Ballet in Pompano Beach, FL with Magaly Suarez.

Prior to joining BalletMet in 2015, she was a dancer at Ballet San Jose, a soloist at La La La Human Steps in Montreal and a principal soloist with the Cuban Classical Ballet of Miami. She has performed a large repertoire of principal roles in the classics including Giselle, Swan Lake, La Bayadere, Don Quixote, Sleeping Beauty, Romeo and Juliet, Carmen, Esmeralda, Raymonda, and Le Corsaire, among others.

With La La La Human Steps, she performed in New Work choreographed by Edouard Lock, which premiered in Amsterdam in 2011 and then toured internationally for the following two years. She has also had the pleasure of dancing works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Edwaard Liang, William Forsythe, Twyla Tharp, Ohad Naharin, Paul Taylor, Val Caniparoli, Dwight Rhodin, Yuri Zhukov, Amy Siewert, Andrea Schermoly, Alex Ketley, Gustavo Ramirez Sansano, Micheal Pink, Matthew Neenan, Alberto Alonso, Jorge Garcia, and Alexander Eckman, among others.

Mrs. Powers has received awards, including the Jury Award at Shanghai IBC in China and a Silver Medal at the World Ballet Competition in Orlando. She was also nominated for Pointe Magazine’s “The Standouts of 2018” for her interpretation of Edwaard Liang’s Giselle.

Mrs. Powers has also been involved in several film projects for BalletMet including In Tandem and Becoming Violet, for which she received an Emmy Award.