To launch his leadership of Birmingham Royal Ballet, David Bintley created a new version of Carmina Burana to Carl Orff’s epic score. The production, in designs by Philip Prowse, was spectacular,...
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Catherine Batcheller (1963?-). American dancer, teacher and director
Catherine Batcheller was a principal dancer with San Francisco Ballet from 1981, and then with Stuttgart Ballet until she joined Birmingham Royal Ballet in 1994, where she danced an extensive repertory. In 2001 she founded Configuration with Joseph Cipolla, a dance theatre and school of ballet in Williamsville, New York, and co-directed until 2008. She has taught and choreographed extensively throughout the United States. Of America From 2010 until 2016 she was dean of Cincinnati’s Otto M. Budig Academy, the school of Cincinnati Ballet.