David Otto


Artistic Direction

   The Albany Dance Institute			1990 - Present
   The Capital Ballet Company			1990 - Present
   The Saratoga Springs Conservatory of Dance	1990 - 1991
   Guilderland Ballet Company			1989 - 1990

Professional Experience

New York City Ballet

   Corps de Ballet				1980 - 1986
   Soloist					1986 - 1989

Principal and Soloist Roles

   A Midsummer Night's Dream			Interplay
   Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet			Ives Songs
   Allegra Brilliante				Emeralds from Ballet "Jewels"
   Ballet Imperial				Kammermusik No. 2
   Coppelia					La Valse
   Creation of the World			Seven by Five
   Divertimento No. 15				Symphony in C
   Fancy Free					Symphony in Three Movements
   Gershwin Concerto				The Nutcracker
   Glass Pieces					The Waltz Project
   Goldberg Variations				Tchaikovsky Pas de Duex
   In G Minor					Piano
   In the Night 				Agon

Guest Appearances

   Mount Laurel Ballet Company			Ossining Ballet Company
   Mid-Atlantic Ballet Company			Poughkeepsie Ballet
   Savannah Ballet				Eglevsky Ballet
   Maryland Regional Ballet			Hamilton College
   Russell Sage College

Television

Dance in America
Live from Lincoln Center
New York City Ballet Touring Commercial
"Hands" for Channel 13 - "Live From Off Center"

Choreaography

Canon in D Major				Pachelbel
Peasant Dance					Prokofiev
The Four Seasons				Verdi
Piquita						Drigo
Sleeping Beauty Waltz				Tchaikovsky
Enigma Variations				Elgar
Concert Suite					Gottschalk
Regimental Dances				Various Composers
Rivalries					Brahms
Book of Dances					Shostokovich
The Nutcracker					Tchaikovsky
Peter and the Wolf				Prokofiev
Rock Me Classical				Art of Noise
Petite Muses					Shostokovich
Cowboy's Corral					Richard Hayman
Minuit Dans le Jardin				Saint Saens
Anderson Sketched				Leroy Anderson

Teaching Experience

Albany Dance Institute				1990 - Present
Guilderland Ballet				1989 - 1990
Russell Sage College				1993 - 1994

Guest Instructor

Adirondack Repertory Company			David Taylor Dance Theatre
Ballet Regent					Merrit Dance Center
Mid-Atlantic Ballet Company

Education

School of American Ballet			1969 - 1977, 1979 - 1980
New York High School of Performing Arts		1974 - 1976
North Carolina School of the Arts		1977 - 1979
Harkness Ballet School
American Ballet Theater School
Joffrey Ballet School

Child Performances

The Metropolitan Opera Children's Chorus	The Royal Ballet
The Stuttgart Ballet				The National Ballet of Canada
The Royal Danish Ballet				Paris Opera Ballet
New York City Ballet

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