Raelynn Heppell
Duncan, BC

Raelynn started training on Vancouver Island and continued in Vancouver at The Richmond Academy of Dance and The Goh Ballet School. She also trained at The Royal Winnipeg Ballet School and completed her training at The School of the Alberta Ballet under the direction of Murray and Nancy Kilgour. She has performed in Napoli,  Paquita, Swan Lake and was Fritz in The Nutcracker with The Alberta Ballet. She has also danced in Arrietta by Crystal Pyte as a participant in Ballet BC’s Summer Dance Intensive Program. Raelynn participated in the Professional Division of the Okanagan Summer Dance Intensive 2008 where she danced in Brian Macdonald’s A Little Brahms. In 2011 Raelynn attended the Banff Professional Summer Dance Program and performed in Hold me Close Neighbor in the Storm by Robert Stephen as well as Uprooted by Gioconda Barbuto.With Ballet Kelowna she has danced the roles of The Sugar Plum Fairy and the Snow Queen  in The Nutcracker and appeared in Liebeslieder Waltzes, Bolero, Negotiating Shifts, Capture, Indigo Moods, Donizetti Dances, stage within and In Stride. This is Raelynn’s fourth season with Ballet Kelowna.