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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