Corps de Ballet
Meredith Reffner, a native of Annapolis, Maryland, has studied at the Washington School of Ballet, The School of American Ballet and the Chautauqua Institution. Ms. Reffner received recognition for her dance studies by being named a Maryland Distinguished Scholar, Presidential Scholar in the Arts, and receiving a Level One Award from the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts.
Ms.
Reffner danced with the Washington Ballet for one season where she
participated in the 25th Anniversary Celebration of The John F. Kennedy
Center for the Performing Arts. She was a member of the Fort Worth
Dallas Ballet for four seasons and performed with The Suzanne Farrell
Ballet. Some of Ms. Reffner’s featured roles include the Siren from The Prodigal
Son, Emeralds from Jewels,
and the Second Aria from Stravinsky Violin Concerto.
She performed with Pennsylvania Ballet as a guest artist in A Midsummer
Night’s Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, and George Balanchine’s The
Nutcracker.
She joined the Company as a member of the Corps de Ballet in August 2001. Since then, she has been featured in John Butler’s Carmina Burana, Peter Martins’ Fearful Symmetries, Jose Limón’s The Moor’s Pavane, and Christopher Wheeldon’s Swan Lake, among others. Ms. Reffner is the proud mother of Lorelei Clarice Callender who was born September 15, 2006.