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After taking time off to start a family, she joined Ballet Iowa, where under the direction of Artistic Director Kennet Oberly, she danced numerous principal roles, many of them being original works. She also performed with the Des Moines Metropolitan Opera and Wisconsin Ballet Theatre. During her career, she has danced in well-known ballets such as Symphony in C, Konservatoriet, Napoli, Don Quixote Pas De Deux, Coppelia, Cinderella, Swan Lake Pas de Trois and Giselle.

Ms. Meredith has taught in schools in Salt Lake City, UT, Des Moines, IA, Green Bay, WI and Chicago. She helped create a pre-professional program at the Green Bay School of Dance which consistently places students in prestigious schools such as the School of American Ballet, Harid Conservatory, Pacific Northwest Ballet School and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School. Many have gone on to professional careers that include Carolina Ballet, Nashville Ballet, North Carolina Dance Theater, Pacific Northwest Ballet and Louisville Ballet, and to Broadway shows such as Young Frankenstein.

While dancing in Los Angeles, Brittany had the opportunity to dance in the film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, as well as the television show House.

In addition to her dance training, Brittany has a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of California San Diego. She has experience working with children in preschool settings including work as a creative movement and physical education instructor.

during which time she completed a teaching apprenticeship and performed lead roles in classical and contemporary works created for the Reif Center Dance Company. She continued training at the Boston Ballet while in graduate school at Harvard before moving to Oxford University to complete her studies. Since moving to Chicago eight years ago, she has been training and performing throughout the city, including solo roles in Don Quixote, Sleeping Beauty, Paquita, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, while teaching ballet of all levels to children and adults.

Chloe graduated from Indiana University’s Jacob School of Music with Highest Distinction, earning a Bachelor of Science in Ballet with an Outside Field of Kinesiology. While dancing with Indiana University Ballet Theatre, she was featured in Twyla Tharp’s Sweet Fields, Dwight Rhoden’s Dear Frederic, and as Princess Aurora in Act II and Act III of The Sleeping Beauty. After graduating from IU, Chloe was given the opportunity to perform George Balanchine’s Nutcracker Pas de Deux and Robert Rodham’s Snow Scene with the Indianapolis School of Ballet. Chloe then moved to Chicago, where she spent two years as a company dancer with Elements Contemporary Ballet, and performed as a guest artist in the Ruth Page Civic Ballet Nutcracker.

In 2014 Jacob attended the Indigenous Dance Residency at the Banff Centre. After attending the residency Jacob returned to Banff as a company member with Red Sky in which he performed as a dancer and choreographer in multiple showcases in Banff and Vancouver Canada. He joined Giordano Second company in 2016 and was promoted to the main company in 2017.

After high school, she worked for Universal Dance Association where she taught and judged dance competitions for high school dance teams. She also worked for the American Ballet Theatre Summer Intensive in Austin, TX after her first year of college where she was able to take classes as well as mentor and supervise young dancers attending. She completed a Bachelor of Arts in Dance and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing and International Business with a minor in French from Grand Valley State University. She was also the president of a student-run dance organization at Grand Valley. During her free time, she loves to travel, bike, and spend time with family and friends.

Post-college she danced with companies including From the Hip Dance Project, Tikvah Company of Artists, and RASA Dance Chicago. In 2016, she toured nationally with Letters From Home, a tap-dancing and singing duet of 1940’s music. Her theatre credits include A Chorus Line at the Paramount Theatre, directed by Mitzi Hamilton, and Saturday Night Fever at Drury Lane Theatre, directed by Dan Knechtges. She continues to professionally perform as a dancer, actor, and singer.

She began teaching and choreographing in 2009 and has since worked with students and performers of all ages, with a focus on children aged 3 – 8.  She received a Grade 1 teaching certification in the Cecchetti Method of Ballet to further her knowledge of instructing classical ballet technique to beginning-level dancers.

During her time at LINES, she worked with various teachers and choreographers such as Alonzo King, Maurya Kerr, Christian Burns, Gregory Dawson, Amy Seiwert, Charles Moulton, and Kara Davis, among others. She also had the opportunity to teach and perform internationally with JUNTOS Collective, an organization committed to multicultural exchange. She is currently dancing with Trifecta Dance Collective and is also an apprentice and mezzo company member with Cocodaco Dance Project.