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Jamey Leverett - Artistic Director
Ms. Leverett has done extensive choreography for Rochester City Ballet. Her acclaimed works include Little Red: The Ballet, Inner Voices, Catharsis, La Vista Del Sol and Gershwin in the Park. Ms. Leverett has been a lecturer in the Dance Department at SUNY Brockport as well as a judge and teacher at National Dance Masters of America Conventions. In the spring of 2000, a ballet Ms. Leverett created for the South East Alabama Dance Company was selected for performance at the Gala performance of the South East Regional Ballet Festival. Ms. Leverett was named "The Emerging Female Choreographer" of the festival and was honored with an invitation and full scholarship to the "Art of Craft" choreography conference in Dallas, Texas. In 2000, 2002 and 2005, Ms. Leverett’s choreography was chosen for “Ballet Builders, New Choreographers on Pointe,” a choreographer’s showcase in New York City. Additionally, her work was performed at the Jackson International Ballet Competition where she choreographed two contemporary solos for the Women’s Jr. Champion, Sarah Lane. Ms. Leverett currently teaches Master Classes throughout the United States and holds the position of Artistic Director of The Timothy M. Draper Center for Dance Education. In 2003, after 15 years of working with and training under the watchful eye of Timothy Draper, she was named the Artistic Director for the Rochester City Ballet.
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Ms. Leverett is a former principal dancer with the Rochester City Ballet,
where she performed major roles in Draper's Nutcracker and had
the lead role in Draper's Firebird choreographed for her. She received
her principal ballet training by Timothy M. Draper with additional training
at the New York State Summer School of Arts and the Pennsylvania Ballet
School Summer Intensive.