Brett Conway

Born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Brett Conway began his dance training at the Fort Wayne Ballet School. He continued at the Virginia School of the Arts, Joffrey Ballet School, and Boston Ballet School. Brett has been a guest artist with KUNST-STOFF and the Sacramento Ballet. This is Brett’s sixth season with LINES Ballet.

Prince Credell (Guest Artist)

Prince was born in Bronx, NY where he first began dancing. He has been greatly influenced by his mentor, Brian Hawthorne. He began his formal training at the NYC High school of Performing Arts and The Ailey School (Judith Jamison Scholar). His training concluded at the San Francisco Ballet School under Lola de Avila and Gloria Govrin, and ABT under Rebecca Wright. Prince worked with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet while completing his studies in high school. He has also danced with Ailey II, and Complexions: A Concept In Dance. A 2003 Princess Grace Award winner, Prince danced for many years with LINES.

David Harvey

David Harvey began dancing at age 11 in the Seattle area. He studied at Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan and graduated after three years of training from the Kirov Academy of Ballet (formerly the Universal Ballet Academy) in Washington DC.  Over the past year and a half David has been a member of the Lines Ballet School Repertory Ensemble and has performed in the San Francisco Opera's production of Iphigenie en Tauride. David is performing with LINES for the first time this season.

Ashley Jackson

Born in High Point, North Carolina, Ashley studied with Susan’s Dance Unlimited and graduated from the North Carolina School of the Arts, studying under Nina Danilova and Melissa Hayden.  She performed with North Carolina Dance Theater II dancing in George Balanchine’s Serenade, Alvin Ailey’s The River, and Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux’s Carmina Burana. This is her second season with LINES.

Laurel Keen

Laurel began her training at Minnesota Dance Theatre.  She then moved to Seattle where she danced at the Pacific Northwest Ballet School (PNBS) as a professional division student. While attending PNBS Laurel performed and toured with the company in several Balanchine ballets. Returning to Minnesota Dance Theatre as a company member, she performed works by Antony Tudor, Dwight Rhoden and Alonzo King. She was featured on the cover of Pointe magazine and is a Princess Grace Award winner. This is Laurel’s sixth season with LINES Ballet.

Muriel Maffre (Guest Artist)

Born in Enghein-les Bains, France, Muriel Maffre received her ballet training from the Paris Opéra Ballet School and Paris National Conservatory of Music from which she graduated with a Premier Prix with honors. Prior to joining the San Francisco Ballet as a Principal Dancer in 1990, Muriel danced with the Hamburg Ballet and Monte-Carlo Ballet. She is a Gold Medalist from Paris 1st International Ballet Competition, and the recipient of two Isadora Duncan Award for Outstanding Achievement in Individual Performance for both 1990 and 2002 repertory season performances with the San Francisco Ballet.  Muriel holds a B.A. in Performing Arts from St Mary’s College of California. In April 2006, Muriel collaborated with UC Berkeley professor and conceptual artist Ken Goldberg on a solo danced to the movement of the earth. Most recently, Muriel created a multi-media dance and puppetry staging of Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat.

Caroline Rocher

Caroline Rocher began her training at the Conservatoire de Montpellier in France with Madame Claparede and later studied at the Rudra Bejart Lausanne School in Switzerland. She came to the United States in 1998 to study at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center and was then invited to join the Dance Theatre of Harlem Company in 1999. She was promptly promoted to principal dancer the following year, performing leading roles in The Prodigal Son, Agon, and Glen Tetley’s Sphinx.  Caroline took part in “Le Gala des Etoiles du 21ieme siècle” in Paris in 2004, danced with the Bayerisches Staatsballett in Munich, and then with the Lyon Opera Ballet for two years. This is her first season with LINES Ballet.

Corey Scott-Gilbert

Originally born in Washington DC, Corey began his dance training at Baltimore School for the Arts, later attending the Juilliard School in New York under the direction of Harkarvey and Rhodes. After graduating with a BFA in 2005, Corey accepted an invitation from France to be a soloist with Lyon Opera Ballet. He has collaborated with and performed ballets by William Forsythe, Sasha Waltz, Jiri Kylian, Matz Ek, and other international choreographers. This is Corey's first season with LINES Ballet.

Meredith Webster

Meredith Webster grew up in Manitowoc, Wisconsin studying with Jean Wolfmeyer. She attended the Harid Conservatory and Pacific Northwest Ballet School, and earned a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science from the University of Washington in 2003. Before moving to San Francisco, Meredith worked in Seattle with Spectrum Dance Theater (Artistic Director, Donald Byrd), and Sonia Dawkins' Prism Dance Theater. This fall, she was honored with a Princess Grace Award in dance.  This is Meredith’s third season with LINES.

Keelan Whitmore

Keelan Whitmore is originally from Rockford, Illinois, where he began his training at the Rockford Dance Company and later went on to graduate from Interlochen Arts Academy. Keelan also studied at the Joffrey Ballet School/New School University and has danced with Kansas City Ballet for five seasons, where he performed works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Twyla Tharp, and Nacho Duato.  His choreography has been showcased in workshop and gala performances with Kansas City Ballet, Virginia School of the Arts, and Regional Dance America, where he received the 2005 National Choreography Recognition Award. Keelan is the co-founder/co-artistic director of Quixotic Performance Fusion. This is Keelan’s second season with LINES Ballet.

Ricardo Zayas

Ricardo Zayas of Brooklyn, NY studied on scholarship at the schools of Dance Theater of Harlem and the San Francisco Ballet.  In 2005, he graduated with honors from Fordham University. He joined the Ailey II Company in his senior year and has also danced with Complexions Contemporary Ballet and Shen Wei Dance Arts. This is Ricardo’s second season with LINES Ballet