Christina Cecchini

Christina Cecchini
Kamloops, BC

Christina began her ballet training in Kamloops and was accepted into the Professional Ballet program at The National Ballet of Canada in 2001. She graduated from the Professional Program in 2005, and went on to complete the post-secondary program. Christina has studied in Germany at The Hamburg Ballet School, in The Netherlands at The Royal Conservatoire in The Hague as part of the NBS student exchange program and has worked with renowned artists such as Karen Kain, Veronica Tenant, Jiri Kylian, Rudi Van Dantzig, Fernando Alonso and Sorella Englund.  In 2007 Christina toured Western Canada with The National Ballet of Canada's Interactive Performance and Movement Workshops program. She was a participant in The Banff Centre's Professional Dance Program in 2008, dancing in Balanchine's "Divertimento No. 15" and Peggy Baker's "Julio Lumo". With Ballet Kelowna, Christina has been featured in the "Swan Lake Act II" pas de deux, as The Sugar Plum Fairy in "The Nutcracker" as well as "Negotiating Shifts" and "Bolero". This is Christina's second season with Ballet Kelowna.