Chelsea Adomaitis

Chelsea Adomaitis is from Boston, Massachusetts. She studied with Wayne Stewarte in Massachusetts and at Harid Conservatory and Pacific Northwest Ballet School, and she attended summer courses at Pacific Northwest Ballet School, Harid Conservatory, the Royal Ballet School (London), and National Ballet School (Canada). Ms. Adomaitis joined Pacific Northwest Ballet as an apprentice in 2009.

While a student at Pacific Northwest School, Ms. Adomaitis performed leading roles in George Balanchine’s Cortège Hongrois and La Source and originated roles in ballets by Sonia Dawkins, Kiyon Gaines, and Olivier Wevers. She also performed corps de ballet roles with Pacific Northwest Ballet in Balanchine’s Diamonds, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Symphony in C; Jerome Robbins’ West Side Story Suite; Christopher Wheeldon’s Carousel (A Dance); and Kent Stowell’s Nutcracker and Swan Lake.

In 2009, Ms. Adomaitis won a National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts youngARTS Level I award. She was also a Youth America Grand Prix finalist in 2003, 2004, and 2005.