Dance with Dancers
Dance with Jimmy Orrante
- Item Number
- 518
- Estimated Value
- 100 USD
- Sold
- 100 USD to Live Event Bidder
Item Description
Jimmy Orrante was a recipient of a 2005 Princess Grace Choreography Award. Now in his fifteenth season with BalletMet, the Los Angeles native has choreographed several works for BalletMet, including Emergence in BalletMet's 30th anniversary event 30x30 and his first full-length ballet in 2009, The Great Gatsby. Mr. Orrante attended the Los Angeles County High School for the Performing Arts under Don Hewitt as well as North Carolina School of the Arts. He has attended the International Summer Workshop in Budapest, Hungary; danced with Memphis Ballet, Nevada Dance Theatre and Los Angeles Chamber Ballet, and teaches at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan's Manistee National Forest, where he is on faculty. A past recipient of the Violetta Boft Memorial Award, Mr. Orrante has enjoyed dancing numerous roles and has performed as a guest artist with Dance Kaleidoscope in Los Angeles, Northern Ballet Theatre in England and Dance St. Louis. He and his wife, former dancer Sonia Welker, have a young son, Isaac, and a daughter, Aiyana.
Item Special Note
Auction winner must be present at The Dance with the Dancers Event to Dance with the chosen Dancer during the Special Dance. Otherwise this will be considered a donation to BalletMet Columbus.
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