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Courtney Shealy
Fort Walton Beach, Florida
Joined ABT 2016
Biography
Photo: Jennifer Boles.
Courtney Shealy, from Fort Walton Beach, Florida, trained with Northwest Florida Ballet for nine years. She received scholarships to summer intensives at Boston Ballet, Next Generation Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, and American Ballet Theatre. In 2014, she received third place at the Youth American Grand Prix semi-final for both senior classical and contemporary
Shealy joined the ABT Company in September 2015, became an apprentice with the main Company in August 2016, and joined the corps de ballet in January 2017. Her repertoire includes the Aya and Lead D’Jampe in La Bayadère, Helena in The Dream, Canteen Keeper and the Spanish Dance in Alexei Ratmansky’s The Nutcracker, a Harlot in Romeo and Juliet, Bacchante in The Seasons, Lead Czardas in Swan Lake, a leading role in AFTERITE, and a featured role in Deuce Coupe. She created Plangon in Of Love and Rage and a featured role in A Time There Was.
ABT is grateful to Linda and Martin Fell for supporting the Dancer Fund in honor of Courtney Shealy.
Repertoire
* created role
- AFTERITE - Leading Role
- La Bayadère - Aya; Lead D'Jampe
- Deuce Coupe - Featured Role
- The Dream - Helena
- The Nutcracker (Ratmansky) - Spanish Dance
- Of Love and Rage - Plangon*
- Romeo and Juliet (MacMillan) - Harlot
- The Seasons - Bacchante
- Swan Lake (McKenzie) - Lead Czardas
- A Time There Was - Featured Role*