Rae Piper
CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTOR |
Paul Chantry
CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTOR |
David Beer
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR |
Chantry Dance Company are delighted to be joined on stage by the following exceptional performers...
Alexandra Harris
DANCER
Alexandra has been dancing since the age of three, learning many different styles including ballet, contemporary, Latin, Jazz and Spanish. She continued her training at Central School of Ballet in London, where she graduated in 2014 with a First Class Honours. In her final year, Alexandra performed in venues across the UK as part of the Ballet Central tour and worked with several renowned professional choreographers as part of this experience. Since graduation, Alexandra discovered a passion for choreography after staging her first full length ballet of The Comic Spirit and has since gained a Masters in Choreography with Central School of Ballet. She also loves to teach contemporary, ballet and a variety of fitness and wellbeing classes. Alexandra has performed with Chantry Dance Company since 2016, dancing in their tours of Ulysses Unbound and The Sandman, and she is thrilled to be working with the company again this year as a dancer in 'Dracula - Welcome to D's'.
DANCER
Alexandra has been dancing since the age of three, learning many different styles including ballet, contemporary, Latin, Jazz and Spanish. She continued her training at Central School of Ballet in London, where she graduated in 2014 with a First Class Honours. In her final year, Alexandra performed in venues across the UK as part of the Ballet Central tour and worked with several renowned professional choreographers as part of this experience. Since graduation, Alexandra discovered a passion for choreography after staging her first full length ballet of The Comic Spirit and has since gained a Masters in Choreography with Central School of Ballet. She also loves to teach contemporary, ballet and a variety of fitness and wellbeing classes. Alexandra has performed with Chantry Dance Company since 2016, dancing in their tours of Ulysses Unbound and The Sandman, and she is thrilled to be working with the company again this year as a dancer in 'Dracula - Welcome to D's'.
Jack Webb
DANCER
Born in London, UK, Jack trained at the Rambert School gaining a BA Hons Degree in Ballet and Contemporary Dance. Upon graduating he travelled the seas dancing for Carnival and Costa Cruise Lines. Since returning to land he has toured the UK performing with FullHouse Theatre in association with MotionHouse, been resident at the King’s Theatre in America for Spirit Productions and danced at the Royal Albert Hall in Derek Deane’s Romeo and Juliet for the English National Ballet. Jack has also appeared on TV, dancing in documentaries hosted by Sir Tony Robinson and televised specials for X Festigal; a national arena concert tour featuring the winner of Israel’s The Voice, Israeli Idol and other Israeli celebrities. In addition to performing for other dance companies and productions, he most recently worked as an aerial dancer for Wired Aerial Theatre in Austria’s Bregenz Festival Opera on the Lake production Carmen. Jack joined Chantry Dance Company for their first original full length ballet, The Sandman in 2017 as the title character, and is performing as Jonathan Harker in CDC's 2018 production of Dracula - Welcome to D's.
DANCER
Born in London, UK, Jack trained at the Rambert School gaining a BA Hons Degree in Ballet and Contemporary Dance. Upon graduating he travelled the seas dancing for Carnival and Costa Cruise Lines. Since returning to land he has toured the UK performing with FullHouse Theatre in association with MotionHouse, been resident at the King’s Theatre in America for Spirit Productions and danced at the Royal Albert Hall in Derek Deane’s Romeo and Juliet for the English National Ballet. Jack has also appeared on TV, dancing in documentaries hosted by Sir Tony Robinson and televised specials for X Festigal; a national arena concert tour featuring the winner of Israel’s The Voice, Israeli Idol and other Israeli celebrities. In addition to performing for other dance companies and productions, he most recently worked as an aerial dancer for Wired Aerial Theatre in Austria’s Bregenz Festival Opera on the Lake production Carmen. Jack joined Chantry Dance Company for their first original full length ballet, The Sandman in 2017 as the title character, and is performing as Jonathan Harker in CDC's 2018 production of Dracula - Welcome to D's.
Shannon Parker
DANCER
1986–1994 SAN FRANCISCO BALLET
Shannon rose from Corps de Ballet to Principal artist in 1990, where she danced many of the Companies Classical and Contemporary Repertoire. Some of the leading roles include Princess Aurora and The Bluebird pas de deux in Tomassons Sleeping Beauty, The Ballerina in Jerome Robbins The Concert, leading roles in William Forsythe’s In the middle somewhat elevated and New Sleep, Glen Tetley’s Tagore and Paul Taylor’s Company B. Ms Parker took part in many creations with the likes of David Bintley, Mark Morris and Helgi Tomasson as well as having danced extensively in the Balanchine repertoire.
1999–2004 BALLET DU RHIN
Shannon ended her performing career with Ballet Du Rhin in France after five years of dancing most of the Companies leading roles, under the directorship of Bertrand D’At. These include Odette and Russian as de deux from D’Ats Swan Lake, the Title role and Peasant Pas de deux from Maina Gielguds Giselle, Steptext and Vile Parody of Address by Forsythe, the lead duet from Tetleys Voluntaries, Lucinda Childs Chamber Symphony, Dance and Mandarin, Gross Fuge by Hans van Manen and lastly, Jiri Kylians Stomping Ground. Davide Bombana created many roles for Ms Parker. Some of those include, Aus de Ferne, Beyond Skin and the role of Marie from his acclaimed Woyzeck where Ms Parker re–created the role. And finally she danced the Pas de deux in Agon as well as both title roles from Concerto Barocco, by Balanchine. Whilst in the Company Shannon’s husband Peter Parker created two Ballets, Bitter Harvest and Bird in the hand, in which she danced the title roles. Nine months after retiring Ms Parker was invited back to Ballet du Rhin to re–create the role of Odette for D’Ats Swan Lake. She has since been teaching for Northern Ballet School, Northern Ballet Theatre, York Scholars, The Dance Space, The Arts Garage, Preston College, Horsforth Summer School, and Carrie Wright and for Gillian Hurst’s Associate programme. Shannon and her husband run workshops around the UK and since 2008 Shannon has been invited every summer to teach in America. In 2011 Ms Parker took two of her students to the States to train for four weeks.
In December of 2010 Shannon and Peter created their first full length Ballet The Nutcracker for Manchester City Ballet. It was received with generous reviews. Most recently Shannon and Peter have appeared on 'Got to Dance' as finalists, and also on 'Britain's Got Talent' in 2016 - also as finalists.
DANCER
1986–1994 SAN FRANCISCO BALLET
Shannon rose from Corps de Ballet to Principal artist in 1990, where she danced many of the Companies Classical and Contemporary Repertoire. Some of the leading roles include Princess Aurora and The Bluebird pas de deux in Tomassons Sleeping Beauty, The Ballerina in Jerome Robbins The Concert, leading roles in William Forsythe’s In the middle somewhat elevated and New Sleep, Glen Tetley’s Tagore and Paul Taylor’s Company B. Ms Parker took part in many creations with the likes of David Bintley, Mark Morris and Helgi Tomasson as well as having danced extensively in the Balanchine repertoire.
1999–2004 BALLET DU RHIN
Shannon ended her performing career with Ballet Du Rhin in France after five years of dancing most of the Companies leading roles, under the directorship of Bertrand D’At. These include Odette and Russian as de deux from D’Ats Swan Lake, the Title role and Peasant Pas de deux from Maina Gielguds Giselle, Steptext and Vile Parody of Address by Forsythe, the lead duet from Tetleys Voluntaries, Lucinda Childs Chamber Symphony, Dance and Mandarin, Gross Fuge by Hans van Manen and lastly, Jiri Kylians Stomping Ground. Davide Bombana created many roles for Ms Parker. Some of those include, Aus de Ferne, Beyond Skin and the role of Marie from his acclaimed Woyzeck where Ms Parker re–created the role. And finally she danced the Pas de deux in Agon as well as both title roles from Concerto Barocco, by Balanchine. Whilst in the Company Shannon’s husband Peter Parker created two Ballets, Bitter Harvest and Bird in the hand, in which she danced the title roles. Nine months after retiring Ms Parker was invited back to Ballet du Rhin to re–create the role of Odette for D’Ats Swan Lake. She has since been teaching for Northern Ballet School, Northern Ballet Theatre, York Scholars, The Dance Space, The Arts Garage, Preston College, Horsforth Summer School, and Carrie Wright and for Gillian Hurst’s Associate programme. Shannon and her husband run workshops around the UK and since 2008 Shannon has been invited every summer to teach in America. In 2011 Ms Parker took two of her students to the States to train for four weeks.
In December of 2010 Shannon and Peter created their first full length Ballet The Nutcracker for Manchester City Ballet. It was received with generous reviews. Most recently Shannon and Peter have appeared on 'Got to Dance' as finalists, and also on 'Britain's Got Talent' in 2016 - also as finalists.
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Vincent Cabot
DANCER Vincent started the dance at Choreographic Center Michèle Darcy, with whom he workeduntil he joined the National School of Dance of Marseille. He began his career in 2004 with his first contract at the European Ballet where he remained for almost 5 years and become Principal Dancer, performing the major roles of the classical repertoire. Wanting to diversify his experiences he left for a year at the Deutsche Tanzkompanie in Neustrelitz (Germany). Back in England, he joined the Ballet Theater UK for 5 years, creating a major part of their repertoire. Since 2016, Vincent has worked in parallel with his career as an interpreter, and teacher with a specialization for the pas de deux. The last couple of months he came back on stage with Midland Theatre ballet, Paris festival Ballet, and his former school in Limoges. |
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Davide Zanzonelli
APPRENTICE DANCER
Davide studied classical dance in a school in a small town in southern Italy. In 2008 he moved to Catanzaro to continue his studies in a professional academy of classical and contemporary dance for 9 years. In these years he won numerous scholarships and went to New York to study in the Limon Dance School, and to the Manhattan youth ballet the following year. In 2015 he won a scholarship for the professional school DAF of Mauro Astolfi where he went to study for a year. In 2017 he won a scholarship to Chantry School of Contemporary & Balletic Arts for one year.
APPRENTICE DANCER
Davide studied classical dance in a school in a small town in southern Italy. In 2008 he moved to Catanzaro to continue his studies in a professional academy of classical and contemporary dance for 9 years. In these years he won numerous scholarships and went to New York to study in the Limon Dance School, and to the Manhattan youth ballet the following year. In 2015 he won a scholarship for the professional school DAF of Mauro Astolfi where he went to study for a year. In 2017 he won a scholarship to Chantry School of Contemporary & Balletic Arts for one year.