Devon Teuscher

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Devon Teuscher (* 1989 in Pennsylvania ) is an American dancer.

Life

Devon Teuscher began her dance training with Deanna Doty of the Champaign Urbana Ballet Academy in Champaign , Illinois . When her family moved to Vermont , she continued her education at the Vermont Ballet Theater School in Essex , under the direction of Alex and Kirsten Nagiba. At the age of eleven, Teuscher attended the Kirov Ballet Academy. She also participated in the Pacific Northwest Ballet's summer intensive program on a full scholarship for two years.

From 2002 to 2006 Teuscher attended the Summer Intensive at the American Ballet Theater (ABT) and was a scholarship holder from 2003 to 2006. In January 2005 Teuscher moved to New York to dance at the ABT's Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School on a full scholarship.

Teuscher came to the ABT Studio Company in 2006, where she danced leading roles in Raymonda , Les Sylphides , Swan Lake , Sleeping Beauty and various works by Jessica Lang. She has been a trainee at the American Ballet Theater since December 2007 and at the Corps de Ballet since June 2008. She has been a soloist since August 2014 and a solo dancer since September 2017.

Individual evidence

  1. press report pointemagazine