Christina Cecchini
Kamloops, BC

Christina began her ballet training in Kamloops and was accepted into the Professional Ballet program at Canada's National Ballet School in 2001. She has studied in Germany at The Hamburg Ballet School, The Netherlands at The Royal Conservatoire in The Hague as part of the NBS student exchange program and has worked with renowned artists such as Gioconda Barbuto, Simone Orlando, Karen Kain, Veronica Tenant, Jiri Kylian, Rudi Van Dantzig, Fernando Alonso and Sorella Englund.  In 2007 she participated in The National Ballet of Canada’s Interactive Performance and Movement Workshops program. Graduating from the Professional Program in 2005, Christina went on to complete the post secondary program. She was a participant in The Banff Centre’s Professional Dance Program in 2008, dancing in Balanchine’s Divertimento No. 15 and Peggy Baker’s Julio Lumo. Christina’s Ballet Kelowna repertoire includes Swan Lake Act II Pas de Deux, The Sugar Plum Fairy and the Snow Queen in The Nutcracker , Juliet in Romeo and Juliet Appassionata as well as Negotiating Shifts,Capture, Bolero, In Arden Woods, Divertimenti and she created the leading role in the ballet stage within. This is Christina’s fourth season with Ballet Kelowna.