Session Description

The Roanoke Ballet Theatre Trainee Program is for dancers ages 17 and older who are wanting to continue refining their technique and artistic abilities while gaining performance experience in a professional company. Students are selected to participate in the Trainee Program by invitation from Roanoke Ballet Theatre’s Executive Director, Sandra Meythaler and Artistic Director, Rolando Sarabia. Ms. Meythaler was a principal ballerina with the National Ballet of Ecuador. She began dancing professionally at the age of fifteen with Compania Nacional de Dance in Ecuador and then joined the National Ballet of Ecuador in 1989. She also danced with Ballet Novo, Opera Ecuador and Koral y Esmeralda. In 2001Sandra became a part of Roanoke Ballet Theatre and was promoted to Director in 2007. She is also a professor of dance at Washington and Lee University.