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At 19 years old, J Ryan Carroll apprenticed with Laura Alonso's Clasico de la Havana (Havana, Cuba). He went on to dane with Wes Chapman's Alabama Ballet as a company member, American Repertory Ballet dancing soloist and principal roles, Ballet Cocierto de Puerto Rico as a Principal Soloist and Les Ballet Grandiva as a company member (male roles)....Read more
At 19 years old, J Ryan Carroll apprenticed with Laura Alonso's Clasico de la Havana (Havana, Cuba). He went on to dane with Wes Chapman's Alabama Ballet as a company member, American Repertory Ballet dancing soloist and principal roles, Ballet Cocierto de Puerto Rico as a Principal Soloist and Les Ballet Grandiva as a company member (male roles). Some guest artist credits include North West Florida Ballet, Portland Ballet, MObile Ballet, Western Ballet Theater of PR, CoDa21 (San Juan), and Ajkun Ballet Theater (NYC). The Ministry of Culture of Puerto Rico invited him to be the Premier Guest Artist at the 2010 International Dance Festival in San Juan where he dancd the Rose in Fokine's Le Spectre de la Rose, and the Young Man in Roland Petit's Le Jeune Homme et la Mort.
J Ryan has taugh Ballet based on the David Howard method and Hilary Cartwright's Yoga Narada throughout the US, Canada, Europe, South Africa, Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Indonesia. He has been ballet master for Tracie Stanfield's Synthesis Dance Project, and a company teacher for Ajkun Ballet Theater. He has been on Faculty for Broadway Connection and summer programs for American Academy of Ballet, Synthesis Dance Project, Western Ballet Theater of Puerto Rico, Ajkun Ballet Theater, Alabama Dane Theater, Northwest Florida Ballet, Mobile Ballet, Seiskaya Ballet, International Dance Festival (NYC) and Joffrey Ballet (NYC).
In 2007 he was invited to adjudicate for the South African Dance Championships (Durban, SA). While there, he taught Cape Town City Ballet II. In 2015 he received an invitation to guest teach at the Jakarta Intercultural School in Jakarta, Indonesia. While he taught there for the Interscholastic Association of Southeast Asian Schools Dance Exchange. In the summer of 2016, he had the please of adjudicating and teaching in Mazatlan, Mexico at Danza Sinaloa Concurso Internacional. He has adjudicated and taught master classes for Dance Educators of America, Dance Masters of America, World Dance Pageant, Starpower, Platinum National Dance Competition, and World Dance Championships.
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J Ryan’s class draws on the work of his mentors and teachers. He uses the perspective of Hilary Cartwright’s Yoga Narada as a way to help the dancers to first connect deep within the body. As the dancers feel rooted within themselves, the real ballet structure begins to take form- using the David Howard Method which utilizes kinesthetic dynamics that build healthy patterns in the body. The goal of the class is to find a deeper sense of harmony in the body within the structure of ballet and music.