Founders Stella Abrera is the Artistic Director of Kaatsbaan and a Principal Dancer with American Ballet Gregory Cary Kevin McKenzie Theatre. Ms. Abrera is from South Pasadena, California, and began her studies with Philip and Bentley Roton Martine van Hamel Charles Fuller and Cynthia Young at Le Studio in Pasadena. She continued her studies with Lorna Executive Director Diamond and Patricia Hoffman at the West Coast Ballet Theatre in San Diego. She also spent three Sonja Kostich Artistic Director years studying the Royal Academy of Dancing method with Joan and Monica Halliday at the Stella Abrera Halliday Dance Centre in Sydney, Australia. Board of Trustees Kevin McKenzie, Chair Stella Abrera Ms. Abrera joined American Ballet Theatre as a member of the corps de ballet in 1996, was Christine Augustine Gregory Cary appointed a Soloist in 2001, and Principal Dancer in August 2015. Her repertoire with ABT includes Sandy Choi Sonja Kostich the Girl in Afternoon of a Faun, Calliope in Apollo, Gamzatti and a Shade in La Bayadère, The Chris Omark Bentley Roton Ballerina in The Bright Stream, Cinderella and Fairy Godmother in Frederick Ashton’s Cinderella, Martine van Hamel Moss and Cinderella in James Kudelka’s Cinderella, Aurora in Coppélia, Gulnare and an Odalisque Board of Advisors in Le Corsaire, Chloe in Daphnis and Chloe, She Wore a Perfume in Dim Lustre, the woman in white Dancers Isabella Boylston in Diversion of Angels, Mercedes, the Driad Queen and a Flower Girl in Don Quixote, Helena in The Gary Chryst Herman Cornejo Dream, the first passerby in Fancy Free, Lise in Las Fille mal gardée, the Maiden in Firebird, Giselle, Alessandra Ferri Carmen de Lavallade Myrta and the peasant pas de deux in Giselle, Queen of Shemakahn in The Golden Gillian Murphy Garen Scribner Cockerel, Pierrette in Harlequinade, Blanche Ingram in Jane Eyre, Manon in Lady of the Camellias, Wendy Whelan James Whiteside Lescaut’s Mistress in Manon, Katia in A Month in the Country, His Friend’s Wife in The Moor’s Choreographers Jacqulyn Buglisi Pavane, the Sugar Plum Fairy and the Snow Queen in Kevin McKenzie’s The Nutcracker, Clara the Jiri Kylian Jessica Lang Princess and one of The Nutcracker’s Sisters in Alexei Ratmansky’s The Nutcracker, Emilia Annie-b Parson Justin Peck in Othello, Tatiana in Onegin, the Ballerina in Petrouchka, Older Sister in Pillar of Fire, Henrietta Pam Tanowitz in Raymonda, Juliet, Lady Capulet and a Harlot in Romeo and Juliet, The Spirit of the Corn in The Directors Sascha Radetsky Seasons, the Lilac Fairy, the Fairy of Valor and Princess Florine in The Sleeping Beauty, Princess Peter Sellars Film & Broadway Aurora, the Lilac Fairy and Princess Florine in Ratmansky’s The Sleeping Beauty, the pas de trois Joel Grey Tommy Tune in Swan Lake, the violin in Symphonie Concertante, leading roles in Bach Partita, Ballet Joanne Woodward Special Events Imperial, Birthday Offering, The Brahms-Haydn Variations, C. to C. (Close to Chuck), Everything Ryan Hill/Apotheosis Events Doesn’t Happen at Once, Her Notes, Jabula, The Leaves Are Fading, Meadow, Monotones I, Souvenir d’un lieu cher, Les Sylphides, Symphonic Variations, Symphony #9, Symphony in C and Thirteen Diversions, and featured roles in Airs, Baker’s Dozen, Black Tuesday, Deuce Coupe, Founders Dream within a Dream (deferred), Gong, In the Upper Room, Petite Mort, Sinfonietta, Within You Gregory Cary Kevin McKenzie Without You: A Tribute to George Harrison, Without Words and workwithinwork. Bentley Roton Martine van Hamel Executive Director Ms. Abrera created the roles of His Memory and His Experiences in HereAfter, the Spanish Dance in Sonja Kostich Artistic Director Ratmansky’s The Nutcracker, the Fairy Violente (Temperament) in Alexei Ratmansky’s The Stella Abrera Sleeping Beauty, His Mistress in Weren’t We Fools, Princess Tea Flower in Whipped Cream and Board of Trustees Kevin McKenzie, Chair roles in After You, Garden Blue, Pretty Good Year and Seven Sonatas. Stella Abrera Christine Augustine Gregory Cary Ms. Abrera’s charity work includes founding Steps Forward for the Philippines, an organization Sandy Choi Sonja Kostich that partnered with Operation USA to rebuild and supply a school in the wake of 2013’s Super Chris Omark Bentley Roton Typhoon Haiyan. She cofounded Artists for Aveni, which benefits the Aveni Foundation’s mission Martine van Hamel to cure cancer. She also curated and danced in a series of galas in Manila in 2018 and 2019 Board of Advisors Dancers benefitting the economically disadvantaged and gifted Filipino children of CENTEX (Center of Isabella Boylston Gary Chryst Excellence) elementary schools in the Philippines, which resulted in the building of the Stella Herman Cornejo Alessandra Ferri Abrera Dance and Music Hall in Batangas. She is also a frequent performer in galas for Dancers Carmen de Lavallade Gillian Murphy Responding to Aids and Dance Against Cancer. Abrera teaches master classes throughout the US Garen Scribner Wendy Whelan and abroad, and serves as Guest Ballet Mistress for American Ballet Theatre Studio Company. James Whiteside Choreographers Jacqulyn Buglisi She studied at Long Island University, and at Harvard University through its “Crossover into Jiri Kylian Jessica Lang Business” program. She is a proud Capezio ambassador. Annie-b Parson Justin Peck Pam Tanowitz Directors Ms. Abrera's awards and nominations include: Sascha Radetsky Peter Sellars Benois de la Danse Nomination for The Sleeping Beauty | 2017 Film & Broadway Joel Grey New York State Assembly recognition for service to the community | 2017 Tommy Tune Woman of the Year recognition from the Philippine Consulate General in New York | 2016 Joanne Woodward Special Events California State Senate recognition for contributions to the performing arts | 2015 Ryan Hill/Apotheosis Events Gold Medal, R.A.D.’s Adeline Genee Awards | 1995 .