Resume Virginia Brooks Britton (Click the blue underlined text for links to sites)
1990 - Present
- Artistic Director of The Alexandria Ballet, company founder, owner,
choreographer, coach repeteur and stage manager.
- Teacher at the Dance Institute of Washington.
- Director of the School of The Alexandria Ballet, founder, owner, teacher,
teacher trainer, syllabus designer of classical ballet program.
1985 - 1990
- Taught in my own studio The Britton System for three years in Mount Vernon area,
taught ballet for CODA - The Contemporary Dancers of Alexandria.
- Taught ballet and exercise for The Center Club, and The Old Town Athletic Club
1980’s
- Danced with Leap Forward (a modern ballet dance company) in San Francisco and
taught at The Pacific Ballet.
- Taught at Dance Arts Studio in San Rafael, California.
- Designed an alignment based stretch and exercise program, trained over 150
instructors in the program, and operated a stretch aerobics company with various
rented locations for 7 years.
- Danced with the Chicago Ballet, trained with Maria Tallchief at The Lyric Opera
Ballet of Chicago. Taught for the Lenhoff School of Music and Dance.
1976-1979
- On full scholarship with David Howard, in New York and danced with the
Metropolitan Opera Ballet
- Appeared with guest companies at the Met such as, The Stuttgart Ballet, American
Ballet Theater, and The National Ballet of Canada.
- Studied floor barre with Zena Rommett and the works of Raul Gelebert. Studied
ballet with Maggie Black.
1972-1976
- Danced full time with the Panama National Ballet, a mostly Russian trained and
directed company, sponsored by Dame Margot Fonteyn.
- Trained and coached by Nicolai Morosov and Luidmila Morkovina of the Kirov
Ballet. Performed major classical ballets as well as contemporary works.
- Trained with Ginela Vasquez in Royal Academy of Dancing, RAD technique.
- Taught exercise on Panamanian talk show on television. Fluent in Spanish.
- Acted in Pan Am commercial filmed in Las Perlas Islands.
Before 1972
- Trained at The Washington School of The Ballet with Sally Schmertz, Hedi Pope in
Alexandria, and Eugene Collins.
Other Studies in Dance
- Studied three years of Modern dance with teachers using various techniques
including Graham, Limon, Horton, and Cunningham. Studied one year of Spanish
Dance and performed Spanish Ballet's. Studied various alignment techniques.
- Has worked with ice skaters as a choreographer.
Education
- B.A. Liberal Studies from The University of the State of New York.
Virginia Brooks Britton
3421 Valley Drive
Alexandria, Virginia 22302
Cell (703)-568-4425
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