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Charlotte was born in Washington, D.C. and
shortly thereafter moved to Northern Virginia where she
began her studies of classical ballet under Barbara Harding.
Her studies then took her to Fairfax Ballet Company with
Thomas Russell, and the McLean Ballet Company with Molly
Vick, Edward Caton, Leon Folkine, Robert Davis, and Eugene
Collins. She also studied at the Virginia Ballet Company
with Oleg Tupine and Tatiana Rousseau. She then went on to
study and perform with the National Ballet of Washington,
D.C., under Frederick Franklin and Ben Stevenson. While
there, she danced with Edward Villela, Michelle Lees, Kirk
Peterson, Denise LeCompte, and Desmond Kelly, among many
others.
After moving to the Annapolis, Maryland
area, Charlotte became a founding member and dancer with the
Ballet Theatre of Annapolis, now Ballet Theatre of Maryland,
Maryland’s only truly professional ballet company.
Throughout her 28 year career with BTM, she danced many
roles including the DewDrop Fairy and Mother Gigone in the
Nutcracker, and created such roles as the lead Temptress in
Artistic Director Edward Stewart's 11th Commandment and the
mother in Three Faces of Eve. Other roles include the Queen
in Sleeping Beauty and the nurse in Romeo and Juliet.
As well as performing with Ballet Theatre
of Maryland, Charlotte taught at the Ballet Theatre of
Maryland School. She taught students ages 2 to 73, levels
including Creative Movement through Advanced and she taught
the company professionals. She has had instruction in the
Cecchetti style under the tutelage of Valerie Deakin and
Cherry Dowling. She studied the American style with Michelle
Lees and Eric Hampton. She received certification in the
Vaganova style through study with John White and Caryl
Maxwell.
She worked as Ballet Mistress and
Rehearsal Assistant for the Ballet Theatre of Maryland under
the direction of the founding Artistic Director, Edward
Stewart. She served as Director of the BTM Performance
Workshop outreach program, whose purpose was to train
dancers in the art of performing. Her other duties for BTM
included Stage Manager for several of the Company and School
performances. She worked as Artistic Director for several of
the annual School performances and as School Administrator.
She has made costumes and helped build sets. She also worked
as Executive Administrative Assistant for three years for
the current BTM Artistic Director.
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