Dancer of the Month
Each month we will feature one of our amazing Ambassadors. Get to know them better.... their life, ballet dreams, favorite role and ballet, pointe shoe brand....
Discover who is the Dancer of the Month.... this month!!!!
For the month of June 2020, we would like to feature our Ambassador
MICAELA SOL BONANNO
Senior Ambassador
Micaela is from Argentina, and lives in beautiful Buenos Aires. She has been dancing for 15 years, and she wore her first pointe shoes when she was only 7!!
Micaela is at present attending the Advanced Ballet Course at the Instituto Superior de Arte of the prestigeous Teatro Colon.
"I wake up every morning at 5am, and travel by bus and subway to the theatre, where my morning classes start at 7:30am. During the afternoon I generally have rehearsals with the school or with the Ballet Company, and I generally return home around 10pm. Since the month of March, and due to the pandemic, we are quaranteened. I follow a virtual ballet class every morning at 9:30am, brodcasted by our School, and afterwards I keep exercising on my own.
Hobbies: watching ballets, reading, Fcebook and Instagram, listening to music
Favorite ballet: La Bayadere
My dream role: Nikiya
Favorite female dancer: Marianela Nunez
Favorite male dancer: Herman Cornejo
Brand of pointe shoes I wear: Gaynor Minden
VIRGINIA ARCHER

Hobbies: cooking, swimming, exploring and... of course BALLET!
Favorite Ballets: Don Quixote, Paquita, La Bayadere, The Awakening of Flora
Dream Roles: Nikiya, Lead Diamonds from "Jewels" and Juliet.
Favorite Female Dancer: Alina Somova
Favorite Male Dancer: Vladimir Muntagirov
Brand of Pointe Shoes she wears: Grishko Triumphs
August 2020
Get to know LILLA SMITH,
Dancer of the Month!
Senior Ambassador @ Dancewear by Patricia



Our Dance Ambassador Lilla Smith is originally from New Jersey. "I trained at a small dance school, North Jersey School of Dance Arts, until I was 16." She has been living in Pennsylvania for the past three years, while training at the Rock School.
"Some of my favorite memories from my dance training are dancing Snow Queen in the Nutcracker, competing at the World Ballet Competition Finals in Orlando, Florida, and participating in Ballet West's artemotion choreographic workshop last summer."
Lilla will be relocating to Columbia, South Carolina, this fall. She is beginning her professional career in the corps de ballet of Columbia Classical Ballet. "I am really excited to be with the Company, because I love classical ballets. I am looking forward to this next chapter of my career, and I am particularly excited that Columbia Classical Ballet will be performing Swan Lake this upcoming season!
Hobbies: shopping, baking, exercising. Lilla also enjoys going to Soulcycle and yoga classes.
Favorite Ballets: Giselle
Dream role: Myrtha in Giselle
Favorite Female Dancer: Beckanne Sisk
Favorite Male Dancer: Robbie Fairchild
Brand of pointe shoes she wears: Gaynor Minden sculpted fit
September 2020
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ALEXIS WORKOWSKI
DANCER of the MONTH


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CHLOE HORTON
Senior Ambassador @ Dancewear by Patricia
DANCER of the MONTH
LAIKA WINTEMUTE
Senior Ambassador @ Dancewear by Patricia
DANCER OF THE MONTH
Our beautiful Senior Ambassador Laika trained @ at L'ecole Supérieure du Ballet du Québec in Montreal Canada, but due to the pandemic, she moved to British Columbia to be closer to her family. "I am now training in Vancouver B.C. at The Dance Conservatory of West Vancouver. It feels great to be back closer to the ocean. . For the coming year I am really looking forward to going on an audition tour and hopefully fulfilling my dream of becoming a professional dancer."
Laika has been wearing custom Repetto pointe shoes. When she needs a back up shoe, her go to is the Grishko Miracle. Her pointe shoe routine always includes darning them.
Hobbies: running, hiking, enjoying the beach, and fashion design.
Favorite ballet: The Sleeping Beauty
Dream role: Princess Aurora, Dew Drop in Baanchine's Nutcracker.
Favorite female Dancer: Darcey Bussel
Favorite male Dancer: Denys Cherevychko
In this picture Laika is wering Dancewear by Patricia's Sahara Sand mesh skirt and Frappuccino leotard!
December
ELENA HERTENSTEIN
DANCER of the MONTH
Our talented Ambassador Elena is 20 years old, and has been dancing since the age of 3. Since 2015 she dances at DanceEmotion Studio in Freiburg, Germany, where she currently lives. "With my ballet company I share many wonderful memories of performing on stage together, which I currently miss a lot because we can´t perform or dance together due to the pandemic. Luckily we have zoom classes, so we can keep dancing at home and come back stronger as a team again hopefully soon."
Elena also performs solos at performances and national such as international ballet competitions. "Last year I went to the Dance World Cup in Portugal, which is an experience I will never forget. This year I finished my finals at school, and currently I am thinking about how I want to create my future as a dancer."
Pointe shoes she wears; Elena currently wears Grishko Dream
Favorite hobbies: listening to music, photography, drawing, meeting friends and watching ballet, going to the theatre.
Favorite ballets: Swan Lake, Nutcracker, The Sleeping Beauty, Jewels, Le Corsaire.
Dream role: Macha, Odetta, Lead Diamond in "Jewels", Nikiya. Pointe and Gaymor Minden hard shank.
Favorite female dancer; Evghenia Obrastzova, Ulyana Lopatkina, Alina Somova.
Favorite male dancer: Roberto Bolle, Kimin Kim, Friedemann Vogel
In this picture Elena is gracefully wearing our "Raspberry Pavlova" leotard with mesh and "Wild Raspberry" chiffon rehearsal skirt.
January 2021
Yağmur Uzsen
Dancer of the Month
AMBER HUGGET
Dancer of the Month



March
ALICIA VAN VLERKEN KAPNISSI
Our Ambassador Alicia van Vlerken is 20 years old and lives in Brussels.
She studies at the University in Brussels and is also training in classical ballet and contemporary at the Dance Conservatory of Brussels.
"Training and studying in parallel is challenging but dance keeps me disciplined, motivated and focused on my goals. In the last years, I have been lucky to participate in a few competitions and joined several summer Intensives in different wonderful countries as Russia, Estonia, Spain… There were great experiences not only for the intensive interesting training but also to living with other dancers from all over the world and share the same goal and dream of becoming a professional dancer one day. I have been dancing since the age of four and have been in a theatre troupe in my school years; performing on a stage is always a pleasure!"
Alicia loves dancing "not only because it is a beautiful art, I love it because of how challenging it is. You have always something new to learn, something to improve."
Favorite hobbies: watching ballet and contemporary pieces, listening to music, cooking, reading.
Pointe shoe brand and style currently worn: Pointe shoes by Gaynor Minden Europe “SCULPTED”
Favorite Female Dancer: Marianela Nunez and Natalia Osipova
Favorite Male Dancer: Roberto Bolle and Daniil Simkin
Favorite Ballet: Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty
Dream Role: White/ Black Swan
What do you think of Dancewear by Patricia?
"Dancewear by Patricia is an amazing brand. There is so much choice, beautiful dance clothes with vibrant colors and so easy to wear and match. Another good thing is that the brand also sells every costume of any dream role in different styles for each taste and in superb quality. Last but not least, I love the fact that it is a brand for everybody: for male and female dancers, for kids and professionals."