Ballet

Linnea Swarting began dancing at the age of 3 in New Canaan, CT at New England Academy of Dance.

She eventually joined New England Dance Theater, NEAD's pre-professional company, while also training privately with Christina Fagundes, former dancer of American Ballet Theater and San Fransisco Ballet. Ms. Swarting finished her training at University of North Carolina School of the Arts High School Program and Boston Ballet School. She then danced for The Washington Ballet, Nashville Ballet, Los Angeles Ballet, Ballet Project OC, and Georgia Dance Theatre. She was chosen to represent the United States at the Varna International Ballet Competition in 2018. She also performed in the Summer Nights Ballet Gala at the Estonian National Opera and the Fairfield County Dance Festival, and appeared as a guest principal dancer at Ballet Arts Jackson and Connecticut Dance Theater Company. Ms. Swarting is currently a freelance dancer, primarily performing with touring ballet companies in the United States and Europe.

Repertoire highlights:

Swan Lake: Pas de trois, Big Swans, Little Swans, Princess/ Bride

The Nutcracker: Sugar Plum Fairy, Snow Queen, Flower Waltz soloist and demi- soloist, Arabian soloist, Spanish, Lead Mother

Strausiana: The Poet’s Lover (principal)

Cinderella (choreography by Frederick Ashton): Fairy Godmother

The Sleeping Beauty: Lilac Fairy, Beauty and the Beast divertissement, Aurora’s friends

An American in Paris (choreography by Sherri Davis): Milo Roberts

George Balanchine’s “Serenade” and “Western Symphony”

Paul Vasterling’s “Carmina Burana” and “The Four Seasons”

Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s “Bloom”

Septime Webre’s “Alice in Wonderland” and “Sleepy Hollow”

In addition to performing, Ms. Swarting is a dance instructor with over 10 years of experience, specializing in ballet technique, pointe, and variations coaching. Several of her previous students have gone on to gain employment with professional ballet companies and acceptances to high- level schools. Ms. Swarting has taught ballet as a guest teacher for several dance studios in Nashville and Los Angeles, led master classes for UCLA's Ballet Company and "A Chance to Dance," Los Angeles Ballet's Outreach Program. She can also be seen demonstrating in several ballet classes for worldwide dance platform, Steezy. In 2017, Ms. Swarting completed Boston Ballet's Adaptive Dance Teacher Training program, and in 2018 she co- founded and taught School of Nashville Ballet's "Adaptive Dance: New Perspectives," a dance class for students of all abilities. While leading this program, she secured funding from the Nashville Predators Foundation to put all students on scholarship, and actively worked to increase diversity and inclusion in the community of Nashville Ballet. More recently, Ms. Swarting was the program lead and primary teacher of "Dance Without Limits," an adaptive dance class at Georgia Academy of Dance. As Arts Programs Coordinator for Georgia Academy of Dance and Georgia Dance Theatre, she choreographed, performed in, and led several outreach programs around Fayette and Coweta Counties in Georgia with the goal of bringing high quality performing arts programs to all.