TRISHA CARTER
Trisha Carter began her training in Maine with Bossov Ballet Theater and continued training abroad under the instruction of Irina Trofimova Golovkina, Dimitri Simkin, Alla Sizova, Natalia Papinashvilli, and Vadim Pisarev, ultimately leading to her acceptance into the Vaganova School in St. Petersburg, Russia. She completed her schooling at the Harid Conservatory and Kirov Academy in the United States before joining Houston Ballet II and later Ballet Florida.
Trisha has performed with multiple companies and choreographers touring both locally and internationally: Houston Ballet, Ballet Florida, Cuban Classical Ballet, Miami Contemporary Dance Company, Dance Now, and is currently in her fifth season, as a founding member, with Dimensions Dance Theatre of Miami. Her classical repertoire includes soloist roles in Anna Karenina, Cinderella, Don Quixote, Giselle, La Bayadere, La Vivandiere, La Sylphide, Les Sylphides, Nutcracker, Paquita, Peer Gynt, Raymonda, Romeo & Juliet, Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, Talisman, as well as contemporary works by the like of Gerald Arpino, Kevin Jenkins, Tara Lee, Paolo Mohovic, Yanis Pikeris, and Leonardo Reale, among others.
Trisha holds a B.B.A. in International Business & Trade and a B.S. in International Economics, which she uses to develop the performing arts in south Florida and beyond. As the founding Executive Director of Miami Dance Hub, a regional dance alliance organization, Trisha is working to unite dance artists across multiple genres to negotiate improved conditions and leverage discounted resources for dancers and dance companies.
BRIAN GRANT
Brian Grant began dancing at age 14 when he joined Rockford Dance Company on scholarship in 1996, under the direction of Artistic Director Margaret Faust. His professional career would begin as an Apprentice with the Louisville Ballet after completing his B.F.A. In Theater Arts with an emphasis in Dance Performance from Northern Illinois University, where he graduated Cum Laude in 2005. Mr. Grant was very fortunate to have performed a variety of roles, including The Funny Boy in Robert North's Troy Game, Val Caniparoli's Lambarena, Rochefort in Andre Prokovsky's The Three Musketeers, and Russian Lead in Caniparoli's Brown-Forman'sThe Nutcracker. Mr. Grant continued his career with Dayton Ballet in 2012, under the direction of Karen Russo Burke. While at Dayton Ballet, Mr. Grant performed roles in Gerald Arpino's Confetti, Jessica Lang's From Foreign Lands and Peoples, Dermot Burke's Fete de Courtiers, Bess Imber's Inner Geist, and Arabian and Soldier Doll in Karen Russo Burke's The Nutcracker. Some of Mr. Grant's favorite roles he’s performed include: Ali the Slave in Le Corsaire, Basilio in Don Quixote and Von Rothbart in Ballet Pontecorvo's Swan Lake, and Acteon in Diana and Acteon Pas de Deux. In 2016, Mr. Grant had become the Adult and Complementary Dance Program Manager for the Louisville Ballet School, seeing the Adult Program, now called Mind Body Balance, flourish and double in size and create performance opportunities for Adult Dancers of Louisville, KY and greater Kentuckiana. Mr. Grant has continued his freelance dancing career in various cities of the Midwestern and Southeastern U.S, working with such companies as Ballet Institute of Atlanta (GA), Ballet Americana (MI), New Albany School of Ballet in (MS) and Gem City Ballet (OH).
Mr. Grant is an American Ballet Theater® Certified Teacher, who has successfully completed the ABT® Teacher Training Intensive in Pre-Primary through Level 5 of the ABT® National Training Curriculum. Mr. Grant is also currently pursuing his Personal Fitness Training Certification, and wishes to specialize in Sports Conditioning, Corrective Exercise and Children’s Programming.
Mr. Grant is very excited to have begun his third season with Movement on Main Center for Dance as Assistant Artistic Director and Artist-In-Residence, and looks forward to bringing more Art and Joy to Muskingum County, Greater Mid-Ohio and Kentuckiana regions in the near future.
