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Colton West
Erina Tanaka
Erina Tanaka began her training at age 8 in New York, with Logrea Dance Academy and Westchester Ballet Company. At the age of 15, she was accepted into SLK Ballet School, under the direction of Sara Knight. During her training, Erina was selected for an exchange program with the English National Ballet School in London in the spring of both 2015 and 2016. She has also spent summers training at ABT, Bolshoi Ballet, and Cincinnati Ballet. Upon graduating SLK Ballet, Erina spent two years with Eugene Ballet. There, she had the opportunity to perform the Spanish and the Arabian pas de deux in Toni Pimble’s The Nutcracker as well as Cygnets in Swan Lake. She was also featured in Val Caniparoli’s Tutto Eccetto Il Lavendino, Stephen Mills’ Hamlet, and Gerald Arpino’s Italian Suite. After spending two years at Eugene Ballet, Erina moved to Canada to join Canada’s Ballet Jorgen, as a company dancer. At Canada Ballet Jorgen, Erina danced featured roles such as the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker and Josie Pye in Bengt Jorgen’s production of Anne of Green Gables.
Colton is from Colorado Springs, Colorado. He studied at Colorado Ballet Society under the direction of Patricia Hoffman and attended summer intensives at Pacific Northwest Ballet, Boston Ballet, Ballet Austin, American Ballet Theatre, and the Paris Opera Ballet School. He also spent a year abroad training in Singapore. As a student, Colton competed in YAGP, the International Competition in Grasse, France, and received Denver Ballet Guild’s first prize in 2013 and 2015. In his professional career, Colton performed with Ballet Idaho, State Street Ballet, Eugene Ballet, Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre, and Canada’s Ballet Jorgen and was a competitor in the 2018 International Ballet Competition.
Colton is an ABT® Certified Teacher, who has successfully completed the ABT® Teacher Training Intensive in Pre-Primary through Level 5 of the ABT® National Training Curriculum.