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Master Teacher on Faculty Dance Expressions’ Ballet Mistress Ms. Warren’s background has been primarily in classical ballet in the Kirov (Russian) tradition. At the age of 11 she was offered an apprenticeship with the Denver Ballet. After moving to Texas, at the age of 13 she was accepted into Ballet Theatre on the Bay. Ms. Warren was offered an apprenticeship to the San Francisco Ballet Company, an annual full scholarship to Joffery Ballet in New York and American Ballet Theatre’s summer school. Ms. Warren joined the faculty of Houston Dance Center where she received a full scholarship to classes. HDC was the home of Ballet Festival, USA, which was a small touring company of 16 members. Ms. Warren rose to the rank of principal ballerina within months of joining the company. During her tenure with Ballet Festival, she also participated in Young Audiences, a groundbreaking organization that offered the arts to Harris and Galveston County schools. In a two-year period, this group performed over 268 performances of “Peter and the Wolf”. This organization is still going strong today. Among many of her distinguished roles, she has performed as the Sugar Plum Fairy in “ The Nutcracker”; Kitri in “Don Quixote”; Maria Taglioni in “Pas de Quatre”; Aurora in “Sleeping Beauty”; The Dying Swan” Live at Lincoln for PBS and Bob Fosse’s “All That Jazz”. In addition, Ms. Warren was in Bob Fosse’s tour of “Chicago”. Some of her other favorite performances included Firebird, Graduation Ball, La Bayadere, Les Patineurs, Les Sylphides, Paquita, Raymonda Variations, and Serenade. She toured these ballets all through the United States, Canada, Hong Kong and Mexico City. Some of her teachers include the legendary Anatole Vilzak; Alexander Minz, Mme. Alexandra Danilova, Mme. Valentina Periyaslovic, and Royce Fernandez, all of American Ballet Theatre; Nicholas and Anne Polojenko of Ballet Festival and currently with Florida Youth Ballet; Robert Joffery of Joffery Ballet; Robert Barnett of Atlanta Ballet; Mary Therea Gushurst, Delia Stewart, James Clouser and Bob Fosse. Ms. Warren has over 30 years of professional dance training, over 20 years of teaching experience and over 25 years of professional performing experience. Mary Niles Warren was the director of her own studio for 15 years. She instructed all levels and ages in Ballet, Jazz and Character. Many of her students have joined companies across the United States, such as Boston Ballet, Pacific Northwest, Ballet West, San Francisco Ballet and Ballet Austin. Several of her students have been accepted to summer camps at Houston Ballet, Ballet Austin and Joffery Ballet for the past several summers. Ms. Warren was also Artistic director and choreographer for Act I Dance Ensemble. The Ensemble included in it’s performing year, 25 to 30 community service projects such as Aides Benefit, Nursing Homes, kids at Risk, scholarships to families of the Sunshine Foundation (The Foundation sponsors families dealing with a child who has cancer). Included in Ms. Warren’s teaching curriculum is working with ADHD, deaf or mentally challenged students. In addition, Ms. Warren has toured the Southwest, East Coast and Mid-West as Ballet Mistress to the Energy Source Dance. She is also a judge for the competition circuit. Ms. Warren’s personal Mission Statement is to teach and build well-trained dancers that can think not only in ballet terms, but apply it to handle life with confidence and self-esteem. She also believes in the Old World “Russian” discipline. This builds beauty and balance, safely giving the dancers a long dance life and a good foundation for discipline in all aspects of their life. |
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