Becanne Sisk-bio

Beckanne Sisk

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Joined Ballet West II: 2010
Joined Ballet West: 2011
Promoted to Demi-Soloist: 2012
Promoted to Soloist: 2013
Promoted to Principal: 2015

2016-17 Season

  • Untitled (Caniparoli) Premier Performance 1st Movement
  • Rubies pas de deux (Balanchine) On Tour – Gran Teatro de La Habana – Havana, Cuba
  • Madame Butterfly (Welch) Cio-Cio San
  • The Nutcracker (Christensen) On Tour – Austad Auditorium, Ogden, Utah Sugar Plum Fairy
  • The Nutcracker (Christensen) Snow Queen, Sugar Plum Fairy,Waltz of the Flowers Soloist
  • The Sleeping Beauty (Sklute, after Petipa) Aurora, Lilac Fairy, Countess
  • YAGP Gala – White Swan pas de deux (Petipa)
  • Chaconne (Balanchine) Principal
  • Facades (Smith)
  • The Green Table (Jooss) The Woman, The Gentlemen in Black
  • Fox on the Doorstep (Fonte)
  • Tremor (Oguma)
  • Dances for Lou (Caniparoli)

 

2015-16 Season

  • Who Cares? (Balanchine) On Tour – Northrup Auditorium, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Principal
  • Overgrown Path (Kylian) (Capitol Theatre, Salt Lake City)
  • Fancy Free (Robbins) (Capitol Theatre, Salt Lake City)
  • Symphony in C (Balanchine) Second and fourth movement principal (Capitol Theatre, Salt Lake City)
  • The Nutcracker (Christensen) Snow Queen, Sugar Plum Fairy, Doll,  Arabian Soloist, Mirliton Soloist, Waltz of the Flowers Soloist. (Salt Lake City, Capitol Theatre)
  • Romeo and Juliet (Cranko) Juliet, Gypsy (Salt Lake City, Capitol Theatre)
  • Light Rain (Arpino) Youth America Grand Prix Gala Performance Capitol Theatre, Salt Lake City)
  • Afternoon of a Faun (Robbins) (Salt Lake City, Capitol Theatre)
  • The Rite of Spring (Fonte) (Salt Lake City, Capitol Theatre)
  • In Memorium (Ruud) (Salt Lake City, Rose Wagner Theater)
  • Fragments of Simplicity (Oguma) (Salt Lake City, Rose Wagner Theater)
  • Lyric Pieces (Lang) (Salt Lake City, Rose Wagner Theater)

 

2014–15 Season

  • Rubies Pas De Deux (Balanchine) Principal On Tour – Aspen Performing Arts Center, Aspen, Colorado
  • Mercurial Landscapes (Gates) On Tour – Aspen Performing Arts Center, Aspen, Colorado
  • In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated (Forsythe) (Grand America Hotel Ballroom, Salt Lake City, Utah) Woman #3
  • Giselle (Sklute after Perrot/Coralli) Giselle, Peasant Pas de Quatre, (Salt Lake City, JEQ Capitol Theater)
  • The Nutcracker (Christensen) On Tour- Austad Auditorium, Ogden, Utah Snow Queen, Sugar Plum Fairy
  • The Nutcracker (Christensen) On Tour – Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C. Snow Queen, Sugar Plum Fairy, Arabian Soloist,
  • The Nutcracker (Christensen) Snow Queen, Sugar Plum Fairy, Doll, Arabian Soloist, Mirliton Soloist,Waltz of the Flowers Soloist. (Salt Lake City, JEQ Capitol Theater)
  • Swan Lake (Sklute, after Petipa)Odette, Odile. Pas de Trois(Salt Lake City, JEQ Capitol Theater)
  • The Sixth Beauty (Neenan) On Tour – Joyce Theater, New York City, New York, Pas de Deux
  • The Lottery (Caniparoli) On Tour – Joyce Theater, New York City, New York, Mrs. Delacroix
  • Almost Tango (Fonte) 2nd Pas de Troisl (Salt Lake City, JEQ Capitol Theater)
  • In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated (Forsythe) Woman #3 (Salt Lake City, JEQ Capitol Theater)
  • Mercurial Landscapes (Gates) On Tour – On Tour -Royal Theater, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada,
  • The Lottery (Caniparoli) On Tour – On Tour -Royal Theater, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, Mrs. Delacroix
  • In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated (Forsythe) On Tour – Royal Theater, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, Woman #3
  • Homage (Adams) (Salt Lake City, Rose Wagner Theater)
  • Pulse (Fry) (Salt Lake City, Rose Wagner Theater)
  • Facades (Smith) (Salt Lake City, Rose Wagner Theater)
  • Divertimento #15 (Balanchine) On Tour – Belcher Center, Longview, Texas, Prinicpal
  • Rubies Pas De Deux (Balanchine) On Tour – Belcher Center, Longview, Texas
  • Mercurial Landscapes (Gates) On Tour – Belcher Center, Longview, Texas
  • Divertimento #15 (Balanchine) On Tour – Winspear Opera House, Dallas, Texas, Principal
  • In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated (Forsythe) On Tour – Winspear Opera House, Dallas, Texas, Woman # 3
  • Mercurial Landscapes (Gates) On Tour – Winspear Opera House,Dallas, Texas
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2013–14 Season

  • The Sleeping Beauty (Sklute after Petipa) – Princess Aurora, Fairy
  • Temperament, Spite, Silver
  • The Nutcracker (Christensen) – Sugar Plum Fairy, Snow Queen, Flowers lead, Mirlitons lead, Doll
  • The Firebird (Christensen) – The Firebird, princess
  • Who Cares? (Balanchine) – Embraceable You/ My One and Only
  • Divertimento #15 (Balanchine) – principal
  • Forgotten Land (Kylian) – Grey couple
  • The Rite of Spring (Fonte)
  • Light Rain (Arpino) – pas de deux

Selected World Premiere Roles Created for Her

  • The Sixth Beauty (Neenan) – soloist
  • Great Souls (Ruud) – 2nd Duet
  • Mixed Signals (Adams) – principal

On Tour

  • The Sleeping Beauty (Sklute after Petipa) – Spite, Silver – Chicago Auditorium Theatre
  • Rubies (Balanchine – principal – Chicago Auditorium Theatre
  • The Lottery (Caniparoli) – Mrs. Delacroix– Chicago Auditorium Theatre

2012–13 Season

  • Cinderella (Ashton) – Fairy Summer
  • The Nutcracker (Christensen) – Sugar Plum Fairy, Flowers lead, Mirlitons lead, Doll
  • Jewels (Balanchine) –Rubies, principal, Diamonds demi soloist
  • Bolero (Fonte)
  • Trapped (Ruud) 3rd pas de deux
  • Esmerelda pas de deux 9 (Vagonova)

Selected World Premiere Roles Created for Her

  • The Lottery (Caniparoli) – Mr. Delacroix
  • Mercurial Landscapes (Gates)
  • Behind Closed Doors (Anderson)

On Tour

  • Paquita (Kunikova after Petipa) – soloist – New York Fall for Dance Festival
  • Emeralds (Balanchine) Smith Center, Las Vegas
  • The Nutcracker (Christensen) – Sugar Plum Fairy, Doll – The Kennedy Center, Washington DC

2011–12 Season

  • Dracula (Stevenson) – Bride,
  • Don Quixote (Holmes after Petipa) – Kitri/Dulcinea
  • The Nutcracker (Christensen) – Sugar Plum Fairy, Mirlitons lead, Doll
  • Paquita (Kunikova after Petipa) – soloist
  • Emeralds (Balanchine)

Selected World Premiere Roles Created for Her

  • Forces at Play (Adams)
  • Eevendong (de Young)

On Tour

  • The Four Temperaments (Balanchine) – Wolf Trap Park for the Performing Arts
  • Grand Synthesis (Shields) – Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts

Additional Information: Beckanne competed in Youth America Grand Prix and was a New York City finalist from 2006-2010. In 2006, she was a Bronze medalist and, in 2008, she was First Runner Up in the Discount Dance Model Search. She received the Jerome Robbins Scholarship Award in 2007.

About Beckanne Sisk:

Sisk began her ballet training with Longview Ballet Theater at the age of five. She studied there until age thirteen when she moved to Philadelphia, PA to attend The Rock School for Dance Education on scholarship. She was a part of the Rock’s RAPA program for four years. While there, Miss Sisk won the Jerome Robbins award in 2007, and competed at the Youth America Grand Prix from 2007-2010, placing in 1st and 3rd. Adam Sklute invited her to join Ballet West II in 2010, at age seventeen, after seeing her compete at YAGP. After one year in Ballet West II, she joined the main company as a New Artist in 2011 and then to Principal in 2015. She has performed the female principal roles in Anna Marie Holmes’ Don Quixote, John Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet and Onegin, as well as Adam Sklute’s adaptations of Giselle, The Sleeping Beauty, and Swan Lake. Sisk has been noticed by The Washington Post in William Christensen’s The Nutcracker, “one of the most charming and beguiling ballerinas to embody the role in recent memory. She was every bit the fairy-tale queen of one’s dreams – regal but warm, expressive but subtly so, who sustained her balances as if mere air held her up, and yet paradoxically, her dominant quality was softness.” Also, her performance in Cranko’s Onegin was recognized by Pointe Magazine as one of the Standout Performances of 2019. Original principal roles have been created on her by many renowned contemporary choreographers such as Nicolo Fonte, Val Caniparoli, Edward Liang, and Matthew Neenan. She has since become an international guest star. In addition to her dancing, Miss Sisk was featured on the CW’s Breaking Pointe television show for two seasons and has appeared in Mexico Vogue. She also won the Bronze Medal in the Beijing International Ballet Competition in June 2012, and was chosen for the 2012 Princess Grace Dance Fellowship award.