Professional Experience:
Freelance Dancer: 2008 - 2010 - Based in Nashville, TN
Ballet Idaho / Eugene Ballet: 2006-2008 - Artistic Director - Toni Pimble
Augusta Ballet 2003 - 2006 - Zanne Colton, Artistic Director - Ron Colton, Artistic
Director Emeritus - Peter Powlus, Resident Choreographer
Charleston Ballet Theatre 1999-2003 - Patricia Cantwell, Artistic Director - Jill
Eathorne Bahr, Resident Choreographer
Burklyn Ballet Theatre 2000 - Angela Whitehill, Artistic Director - Arthur Leeth,
Program Manager.
Training:
School of Southern Ballet Theatre (now Orlando Ballet) - Teachers: Russell Sultzbach,
Barbara Riggins,
Cynthia Roses, Eliza Harwood
Virginia School of the Arts - Teachers: Petrus Bosman, David Keener, Keith Lee
Boston Ballet Summer Dance Program - Teachers: Devon Carney, Anne Marie Holmes,
Bruce Marks, Laszlo Berdo, Yacov Sharir
Performance Experience:
Freelance Dancer
As a regular principal guest artist with Georgia Ballet - 2009-2010 - Gina Hyatt-Mazon,
Artistic Director
Grande pas classique
A pas de deux choreographed by Janusz Mazon - Young dancers guide to the orchestra
Paquita
- Pas de trois
Ichabad Crane - A Sleepy Hollow Story
Cavalier - The Nutcracker
Other Guest appearances
University of South Carolina - Stars and stripes (with guest
artists Wendy Wheelan, Daniel Ulbright, Sara Mearns and Jared Angle from New York
City Ballet)
Stillpoint Dance Theatre - Voices from the Ground
Centennial Youth Ballet - Les Corsaire Pas de deux
Ballet South - Pas de deux - Paquita
Ensworth School of Dance: - Les sylphides
Vanderbilt Dance Theatre: - Les sylphides
Alexandra Ballet - Cinderella
Nashville
School of the Arts - Paquita Pas de deux
Nashville in Motion - Oklahoma (Dream Curly)
Dance Augusta - Grande Pas de deux
- The Nutcracker
Dance Augusta - Don Quixote Wedding pas de deux, Red Wagon
Greenville Ballet - Grande
Pas de deux - The Nutcracker
School of Performing Arts & Ballet South - Grande
Pas de deux - The Nutcracker
Iowa Dance Theatre - Grande Pas de deux - The Nutcracker
Ballet
Pensacola - Prince - Princess and the Pea
Drop Dance Collective - Listen to the
little Voice
April 2009 Rider performed at the Panoply Festival in Huntsville, Alabama, for Choreographer
Thomas Shoemaker. He was featured as the father in "Just let go" which was the winning
piece in the
Ballet section of the competition.
Ballet Idaho/Eugene Ballet:
Who Cares? - Concert version - choreography George Balanchine
Concerto
for Seven Dancers -choreography Toni Pimble
Still Falls the Rain - choreography
Toni Pimble
Huck Finn - Tom Sawyer - choreography Toni Pimble
Cloviello - Pulchinella
- choreography Toni Pimble
Carnival of the animals - choreography Toni Pimble
American
Spirit - choreography Toni Pimble
Carmina Burana - choreography Toni Pimble
Corporal
Morallis - Carmen - choreography Toni Pimble
Drosslemeyer, Arabian and Russian -
The Nutcracker - choreography Toni Pimble
Silk & Steel - choreography Toni Pimble
Channel Surfing - choreography Toni Pimble
Augusta Ballet:
Siegfried - Swan Lake Act 2 - choreography Frederick Franklin
Dracula
- Dracula - choreography Peter Powlus
My Funny Valentine - choreography Lar Lubovitch
Red
Wagon - choreography Anthony Ferro
Wedding Pas de deux - Don Quixote choreography
Petipa
Hearth of Embers - choreography Vicki Uris.
Duke of Buckingham - The Three
Musketeers choreography Peter Powlus.
Don Everly - Foreverly - choreography Thomas
shoemaker
Dracula - Dracula - choreography Peter Powlus
Grande Pas de deux, Russian
Trepak - The Nutcracker choreography Robert Barnett
Charleston Ballet Theatre:
Romeo - Romeo and Juliet - choreography Jill Eathorne Bahr
Elegy - Serenade - choreography Balanchine
Principal Male - Allegro Brilliante choreography Balanchine
Tarantella choreography Balanchine
Dracula - Dracula - choreography Jill Eathorne Bahr
Cavalier, Snow Pas de deux, Arabian - The Nutcracker - choreography Jill Eathorne
Bahr
Black and Blue - Nines Lives - choreography Daniel Pelzig
Second Hand Sofa - choreography Colin Connor
Hearth of Embers - choreography Jill Eathorne Bahr
Burklyn Ballet Theatre:
Wedding Pas de deux - Don Quixote choreography Petipa
Headmaster -
