Christine Harris

TRAINEE PROGRAM FACILITATOR

Christine Harris is the director of the Woodbury Ballet and a trainee division faculty member at Ballet Hartford.  Originally from the Bay Shore, NY, she trained with Leda and Marina Eglevsky at the Eglevsky Ballet School, the School of the Joffrey Ballet, and Svetlana Caton-Noble prior to receiving a BFA from Purchase College. 

Ms. Harris danced professionally on both the East and West Coasts with the New York Dance Theatre, the Lumiere Ballet and the Noveau Chamber Ballet in California. She performed soloist roles in several ballets, including The Nutcracker, Kismet, The Snow Maiden, Giselle, Hansel and Gretel, La Bayadere, and The Trials of Tamara (nationally televised). Favorite roles include the Sugarplum Fairy (The Nutcracker), Fairy Godmother (Cinderella) and Marie Taglioni (Pas de Quatre).

As a dance educator, she attended teaching seminars with David Howard, Suki Schorer of the New York City Ballet, the Richmond Ballet, Marcia Dale Weary of the Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Nutmeg Ballet, and Pacific Northwest Ballet. She traveled to Saint Petersburg, Russia in 2019 with the Open World Dance Foundation to study the Vaganova Russian method of teaching classical ballet technique.

Choreographic credits include Beauty and the Beast, the Fantastic Toy Shop, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Cinderella, Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland. Ms. Harris was a ballet instructor at the Inland Pacific Ballet, Alvin Ailey, Rockwell Dance Center, Long Island Academy of Dance, the Conservatory of Dance, Naugatuck Valley Community College and an Adjunct Faculty Member at Westover School. From 2000 - 2021, she served as Brass City Ballet’s Associate Director (2000 - 2021). Additionally, she worked at Jacob's Pillow and as a Development Associate for Pilobolus Dance Theater. Most recently, she has been invited to stage work at the Taft School and has choreographed several musicals including The Fantasticks, Annie get your Gun and Fiddler on the Roof.

Ms. Harris also holds a Degree in Psychology. She spent a year studying dancers’ body image and completed a thesis entitled “The Relationship between Body Image, Self-Esteem and Self Consciousness in Dancers and Non-Dancers”. As an educator, her goal is to teach her students to establish healthy relationships with themselves, while also developing clean technique and artistry.