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Maia Wilkins (Sugar Plum Fairy) began her training when she was eleven from Maggie Banks at Nevada Festival Ballet School. From Balanchine pointe to Pilobolus bare feet; from favorite ballerina fairies to flying on a trapeze, during the course of her 18-year history with The Joffrey Ballet, Wilkins danced featured roles that showcased her artistic range and physical versatility. Wilkins has gotten to work with numerous répétiteurs and choreographers including pieces by Tudor, Cranko, Parsons, Tharp, Kylian, Ashton, and Nijinsky. Maia Wilkins has performed more Joffrey and Arpino ballets than any other ballerina. Arpino created his 2004 duet, Ruth, Ricordi per Due, for Wilkins and her frequent partner Willy Shives. “It is that passionate attention to building a role that makes Wilkins such a fascinating performer--a dancer whose pristine technique is only the handmaiden to the challenge of interpreting a role and making it her own.” - Dance Magazine
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Michael Levine (Cavalier) has danced professionally for over 15 years. Formerly a principal with the Joffrey Ballet, Levine has had the pleasure of dancing numerous leading and principle parts. Most recently he has danced as Albrecht in Freddy Franklin’s staging of Giselle, Death in Kurt Jooss’s The Green Table, Romeo in John Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet and The Prince in Aston’s Cinderella. Other leading roles include The Brown Pas in Kylian’s Return to a Strange Land, The Lover in Tudor’s Lilac Garden, Balanchine’s Tychaikovsky Pas de Deux, Iago in Limone’s The Moore’s Pavane. He has also performed the leads in many of Arpino and Joffrey works, some of which include: Arthur St. Leon in Pas de Deesses, the leading man in A Round of Angels, and the lead couple in Light Rain.
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