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Text Box: Monika Alch

Text Box: A former prima ballerina, Monika Alch began training for the ballet at age four in the Vienna Conservatory, Vienna, Austria.  At the age of six, she was a member of the children’s ballet of the Vienna State Opera.  At age 12, she was accepted by Dia Lucca at the Vienna Volksopera, dancing at the same time as an apprentice of the corps de ballet.  Her first professional engagement followed after receiving her diploma as a soloist in dance at age 15.  This was for the summer festival of Morbish, Austria.  She went on tour with an opera ensemble in Switzerland and Germany under choreographer Boris Tonin.  In the summer of

 

 

 

 

 

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Text Box: 1960 in Cannes, France, she studied in an advanced student seminar under teachers Rosella Hightower, Antoine Dolin, Jerome Robbins and Alicia Markova and with such illustrious fellow students as Rudolf Nureyev, Eric Bruhn and Milorad Miskovitch. Ten years of professional experience followed in opera theaters of Klagenfurt, Gratz, Salzburg (summer festivals under Herbert von Karajan with ballet master Waszlav Orlikovsky) and Munich.  In the United States, she performed with Ballet Metropolitan for five years with director Wayne Soulant. Her first choreography in the United States was in the production of Smetana’s The Bartered Bride, an opera theatre production at SUNY-Fredonia.   She also has choreographed La Traviata, Die Fledermaus, Romeo and Juliet and un Ballo in Maschera for Opera/Columbus, in Columbus, Ohio, and The Merry Widow, The Magic Flute and Carmen for Ohio State University. Alch also has held staff teaching positions teaching ballet and ballet history at Shenandoah Conservatory of Music, in Winchester, Virginia.  She operated her own private ballet studio while living in Columbus, Ohio.  She was rehearsal director for the Columbus Dance Ensemble and taught on the staff of Ballet Metropolitan.  She currently serves as artistic director as well as the School Director with the Chautauqua Regional Youth Ballet, in Jamestown, NY. Currently, Monika lives in Lily Dale, New York with her husband, Mario and cat Santino. She is a native of Vienna, Austria.    

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