Sharon Wehner
Sharon Wehner is originally from San Jose, California. She trained with Jody White and David Roxander, San Jose Dance Theatre, San Francisco Ballet and San Jose/Cleveland Ballet. Ms. Wehner joined Colorado Ballet in 1996 and was promoted to Principal in 1999, and in the last 15 years, has performed many lead roles with the Company. These include Kitri in
Don Quixote, Giselle in
Giselle, Odette/Odile in
Swan Lake, Medora in
Le Corsaire, Aurora in
The Sleeping Beauty, Swanilda in
Coppelia, Mina in
Dracula, Juliet in
Romeo & Juliet, the Principal couple in Balanchine’s
Stars and Stripes and Rubies, Antony Tudor’s
Leaves are Fading, and Twyla Tharpe’s
In The Upper Room. She has been honored to have solos and pas de deaux created on her by choreographers Edwaard Liang, Mathew Neenan, Christopher Wheeldon, Darrel Grand Moultrie, Dwight Rhoden, Jessica Lang, Brian Reeder and Toru Shimazaki. In addition to Colorado Ballet, Ms. Wehner has also performed with The Washington Ballet, Oakland Ballet and Amy Seiwert’s Imagery. She has also been a guest artist at the Vail International Dance Festival, and in Japan in the Aoyama Ballet Festival, and the National Ballet of Japan’s Golden Ballet Co-star.
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