Ms Analia Farfan was born in Buenos Aires Argentina, she studied Classical Ballet with Josefina Serrano and Olga Ferri among others. She graduated with Honors from “Maria Ruanova Institute” as a National Classical Ballet Professor, Contemporary Dance Professor and Choreographer. Ms. Farfan received a scholarship from Marika Besobrasova at Princess Grace Academy in Monaco and later studied and trained with Galina Panova. She was a member of The Pennsylvania Youth Ballet" (PA,USA), ”The Metropolitan Opera Ballet" (NY), “Tbilisi State Opera and Ballet Theater, directed by Nina Ananiashvili (Georgia, Tbilisi), “Ray Ballet" (Russian-American Ballet”(NY,Holland, St Petersburg), “Homo Veritas Dance Theater”( NY), Metropolitan Ballet (MN,USA), “Ajkun Ballet Theater”(NY) among others.

Ms Farfan is currently performing with the “Asian Cultural Symphony of The USA”, the “American Liberty Ballet”as a Principal Dancer and she is the official Choreographer and Principal Dancer of “Athena Music Foundation” where she performed at Carnegie Hall , The United Nations, The Alice Tully Hall and Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Ms. Farfan is an award winner of several international Ballet Competitions and Prizes and she isthe Founder Director of the “International American Ballet”.

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Bret Coppa began his dance/ballet training at the age of 3 in San Pedro, California, eventually finding Dance Peninsula Ballet under the artistic direction of Roberto Alumgar. He has participated in numerous summer intensives around the U.S. as well as internationally; some include Kirov Academy of Ballet, Ballet West, Miami City Ballet, Alonzo King Lines, Elmhurst School for Dance, and Jacob’s Pillow. He has been a participant of YAGP Regionals and Finals, as well as participating in the Prix de Lausanne twice.

He attended University of North Carolina School of the Arts where he finished highschool. During his time there he performed many leading roles including Principal Man in Donizetti Variations, Waltz Boy in Serenade, Solor in La Bayadere, The Poet in Les Sylphides, and numerous roles from The Nutcracker. After graduating from UNCSA he attended Ballet Heritage in St. Petersburg, RU to receive a teaching certification in the Vaganova Method. Starting his professional career as a member of Atlanta Ballet 2; having roles created on him such as Bruce Well’s Beauty and the Beast where he premiered the role of Gaston, later also performing as the Beast. The following time spent at Atlanta Ballet he danced in works by Ricardo Amarante, Yuri Possokhov, Mark Morris, Alexander Ekman, Johan Kobborg, Claudia Schreier, Lar Lubovitch, Alexander Ekman, Liam Scarlett, and Dwight Rhoden. 2021-2022 he left the Atlanta Ballet to return to freelancing, something he had begun at the age of 13. During which time he danced with Terminus Modern Ballet Theater, and various other schools and companies dancing numerous principal and soloist roles.

Bret Coppa joined The International American Ballet in 2024 .

Charlotte Meilaender is a dancer and choreographer from upstate New York. She received her training at Genesee Dance Theatre School and holds a BFA in dance from Mercyhurst University, as well as training at acclaimed international ballet schools such as Masters of Ballet Academy in London, England. She has performed both classical and contemporary repertoire with the Mercyhurst University Dance Department and Genesee Dance Theatre, and has choreographed for both stage and screen. Her performing credits include Swan Lake, Don Quixote, and The Nutcracker, as well as original works by Jeffrey Rockland and Noelle Partusch.

Charlotte Meilaender joined The International American Ballet in 2024.

Erica Maillet Erica pursued her pre-professional ballet training at the Massachusetts Academy of Ballet, in Holyoke, MA. She also attended summer programs at the American Academy of Ballet, Massachusetts

Academy of Ballet, and Ballet Hartford.

In 2015 she began her professional career with Mystic Ballet, in Mystic, CT where she performed works by Sergei Vanaev, and Lauren Edson. She has since then performed with Dimensional Dance, in Hartford, CT, and Ballet Hartford, in Hartford, CT. During her time at Ballet Hartford, she performed works by Silas Farley, Michelle Thompson Ulrich, Calvin Bittner, Caleb Mitchell, and Eliza-beth McMillan, as well as classical roles in Romeo and Juliet and Les Sylphides. She has toured with the company to New York City to perform at the Alvin Ailey CitiGroup Theater, Actors Fund Theater, Gelsey Kirkland Arts Center, and Times Square. In 2019, she was a Co-Founder and Company Artist with the New England Ballet Collective, where she performed at Wadsworth Atheneum, in Hartford, CT, Ballet Hispanico, in New York City, and The Academy of Music, in Northamp-

ton, MA.

Since moving to New York City in 2020, she has performed with

New Rising Sun Dance Project, The Muse Brooklyn, Ballet Bloom Project, and several performances with American Liberty Ballet.

Erica Maillet joined the International American Ballet in 2023.

Máire New is the first Alaskan graduate of the Bolshoi Ballet Academy.

She has performed on the Bolshoi stage and worked as a principal dancer with Moscow Classical Ballet, Samara Academic Theatre of Opera & Ballet, Astrakhan State Theatre of Opera & Ballet, Boston City Ballet, and Ido Tadmor Ballet.

Máire has trained with master pedagogues including Irina Kolpakova and Ludmila Morkovina, pupils of Agrippina Vaganova herself.

She has choreographed award-winning pieces for the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, Youth America Grand Prix, and Li’s Ballet, and has taught masterclasses for Yale University.

She was also featured in Mariinsky Ballet’s "Russian Ballet Stars” gala, the America-Israel Cultural Foundation's ICA Awards Ceremony in New York, and the “Dance For Life” Festival, directed by Desmond Richardson, Phil Wilson, and Debbie Allen, where she performed an original creation by Ido Tadmor.

Máire currently resides in New York where she works as a freelance principal dancer, teacher, and choreographer.

Maire New joined The International American Ballet in 2024.

Genaro Freire was born and raised in Guayaquil, Ecuador, where he started dancing at age 17and attended Escuela de Ballet Inge Bruckman del Teatro Centro de Arte. In 2013 he moved to NYC to dance with the Joffrey Ballet Concert Group, with which he toured the East Coast, Canada, and China, performing in dances by Gerald Arpino, George Balanchine, and Robert Battle and new works by Africa Guzman, Tyler Gilstrap, and Gabrielle Lamb, and appearing with dancers from Complexions in work by Dwight Rhoden. He has danced as a guest artist in Delta Festival Ballet’s The Nutcracker in New Orleans for four seasons in multiple soloist and principal roles. He danced with NYTB from 2018 to 2020, performing in works by Keith Michael, Merce Cunningham, Donald Mahler, Pam Tanowitz, and Robert La Fosse. During 2022 he worked along The Sebastians and Cristopher Caines Dance. He also joined Tabula Rasa Dance Theater to participate in the world premiere of Oedipus Rex. Next year he will be starting his third season with Alison Cook Beatty Dance and this is my first season with “the international American Ballet”.

José Rojas is a professional dancer performer and teacher of traditional Argentine folklore originally from Paraná, Entre Ríos, Argentina. José dabbled in folk dance from the age of six. Since then they have participated in various highly renowned folkloric contests and festivals in Argentina, such as the Baradero National Festival 2010, establishing themselves as a revelation couple, and the Cosquin National Festival 2011, establishing themselves as a finalist in dance

ensemble, among others. His passion for dance encouraged José to develop other dance techniques such as ballet, jazz and contemporary; giving you the opportunity to take classes with world-renowned dancers and teachers such as Raquel Rossetti, Alejandro Totto and Iñaki Urlezaga, among others. José also had the opportunity to participate in the Co-production between the Municipal Dance School of Paraná and the Teatro Colon of Buenos Aires, on two occasions: "Don Quixote" in 2010 and "Giselle" in 2011; in which he shared the stage with first dancers from the Teatro Colon such as Silvina Perillo, Edgardo Trabalon, Nadia Muzyca and Gerardo Wyss. In 2015, José received a full scholarship for the summer contemporary jazz course at the Joffrey Ballet School in New York City, during which, for his good performance, he was awarded a full scholarship to attend the school year 2015-2016 in said institution. Currently, José is an independent professional dancer residing in New York. A Worked with

different companies and choreographers of great renown such as: artist teacher at Ballet Hispanico, Arim Dance Company (principal dancer of Martha Graham), Amalia Basanta Hernandez (director of the National Folkloric Ballet of Mexico), American Swiss Ballet Company,

D'Zul dance Company, Axelrod Contemporary Dance Company, and has had the opportunity to participate in different renowned Festivals and theaters such as: Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Dumbo Dance Festival, New York City Center, Alvin Ailey Dance Theater, Victory Dance Theater (broadway) , Town Hall Theater (Broadway), etc.

He currently works for the companies: Calpulli Mexican Dance Company, Connecticut Ballet, and independent Tango and Argentine Folklore projects.

Jose Rojas joined The International American Ballet in 2024.

Maria Brea is one of Venezuela’s most acclaimed opera singers. As a

youngster, Maria Brea learned folk music from her Cuatro-playing father. Today, the soprano is fast making a name for herself across North America. Carnegie Hall, The Metropolitan Opera, Palais Garnier, David Koch Theater, David Geffen Hall are just some of the prestigious stages the Juilliard grad has already graced, where she has stunned audiences with her dazzling range and intoxicatingly lush tones.

In the 2023-24 season, the “vocally thrilling” (ConcertoNet) soprano will made her debut with the Phoenix Symphony as the soprano soloist in Handel’s Mesías [Messiah in Spanish] and later made her David Geffen Hall debut singing Handel’s Messiah with the National Chorale. Ms. Brea will represent Venezuela in the Maria Callas competition in Sao Pablo, Brasil 22 edition taking place at the Teatro Sergio Cardoso. Maria returns to Haydn’s Creation under the baton of Maestro Jason Tram and makes her Canadian debut with the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra singing Odaline de la Martinez’s Four Afro-Cuban Poems. She also makes her debut with Arizona Opera in the role of Ana Maria in Zorro, along with Vero Beach Opera in the role of Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, and returns to Opera Essentia to play the role of Clomiri in Rosmene’s Choice, a 70-minute distillation of Handel’s Imeneo. Maria will sing her 17th performance of Micaëla in Newport Classical Festival in the summer of 2024.

Notably, she represented Venezuela in the 2022 Operalia Competition in Latvia and reached the finals of the 2022 Paris Competition. Maria's

remarkable achievements include being a finalist in the 2021 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition and earning 6th prize in the Tenor Viñas Contest. Her accolades extend to awards in competitions such as Opera Cultura, Gerda Lissner, Giulio Gari, Mary Truman Art Song, and New York Lyric Opera.

For more information visit Mariabreasoprano.com

Misa Mochizuki is a Principal Dancer with the International American Ballet. She is originally from Japan, and started dancing at the age of 5 under Sakiko and Yutaka Yoshikawa at Yuki Ballet Studio. She came to NY in 2012 and trained at the Joffrey Ballet School and Ballet Arts.

She has danced with multiple companies including Albano Ballet Company, Albany Berkshire Ballet, Benjamin Briones Ballet, Jersey City Ballet, Neville Dance Theater, Staten Island Ballet, The Next Stage Project, Xaoc Contemporary Ballet, and among others, performing in classical and contemporary repertoire.

Misa Mochizuki joined The International American Ballet in 2021 as a Principal Dancer.

Pedro Cabrera, 18-year-old Ecuadorian dancer works within the professional field of dance in Classical Ballet and contemporary dance. Graduated from the "Inge Bruckman" Dance School of the Art Center Theater of Guayaquil, Ecuador. He has been part of the En Avant dance company since the beginning of 2023 in different productions such as Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Tchaikosky Piano Concerto, La Fille mal gardée, among others.

Pedro Cabrera joined The International American Ballet in 2024.

Santiago Jimenez Vargas Born in Colombia, started his artistic career at the age of 15 and ballet when he was 17 years old. He started classes at Ballet Anna Pavlova in a special program with the Major (Julio Mario Santo Domingo) Theater in Bogota D.C “Alma en Movimiento” where he started his pre-professional dancer before he left home in 2018 to live in New York City. He went to a ballet school ( Ballet Academy East) in NYC and graduated in (2020)from there around 2 years later. During those years he has worked with choreographers how Darla Hoover, Lia Ciro, Alan Hineline, Silas Farley, Maina Gielgud, Ariel Rose, and others. Santiago joined the ballet of Barcelona during the season of 2021-22 and is now ahead to keep improving his professional technique and skills as an interpreter - freelance dancer in NYC.

Mr. Jimenez has been cast in leading and featured roles for such performances as “Valse Fantasie” of Mrs. Balanchine, Romanza, In Excelsis, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, in which he served as a Demi- Soloist as the well-loved character of Puck, Solist, and Demi-Solist on the Nutcracker for Brooklyn Ballet.

He is developing new languages of dance such as Neoclassical and contemporary dance nowadays.

He joined the International American Ballet in 2024.

Vita Koreneva is an award-winning Russian-American mezzo-soprano and composer with a mesmerizing presence on the operatic and concert stages. Known for her "deep and distinguished" voice, Ms. Koreneva captivated audiences world-wise. In the 2023 season, Vita

has made her debut with the Asian Cultural Symphony of the USA at the Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall. Earlier this year, she also interpreted the roles of La Frugola in Il Tabarro and Maddalena in Rigoletto. As a mezzo soloist, Vita appeared with the Metropolitan Opera Guild, the UN Orchestra and the State Capella of St. Petersburg. Her exceptional talent has earned her accolades, including the prestigious Honorary Award from UNESCO and the Russian Cultural Center.

Vita's remarkable abilities have been recognized at vocal competitions, including Con Fuoco Competition (1st place) and Big Romansiada (Best Voice) in Moscow, and the William Haralson Vocal Competition (1st place) in New York.

Vita is also a composer and a co-founder of DictionBuddy, an innovative mobile app that simplifies the learning of lyric diction. Vita Koreneva's musical journey began in Moscow, at the Central Music School (Tchaikovsky State Conservatory); she holds an MBA in Finance from American University and is pursuing a Composition degree from Berklee School of Music.