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PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET
Corps de Ballet
Seth Orza is from San Francisco, California. He trained at San Francisco Ballet School and on full scholarship at the School of American Ballet. In 1999 he joined New York City Ballet as an apprentice. He became a corps de ballet member in 2000, and in 2007 he was promoted to soloist. Mr. Orza joined Pacific Northwest Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet in 2007.
Mr. Orza has danced a leading role in George Balanchine's Agon and featured roles in Balanchine's Ballet Imperial and Prodigal Son and Kent Stowell's Nutcracker.
At New York City Ballet, Mr. Orza danced leading roles in George Balanchine's Agon, The Four Temperaments, The Nutcracker, Emeralds, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bottom, Lysander), Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, Symphony in C, and Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2; Peter Martins's Reliquary and Romeo + Juliet (Romeo); Jerome Robbins's Fancy Free, Fanfare, In Memory Of …, Interplay, and Piano Pieces; and Christopher Wheeldon's Carousel (A Dance), Evenfall, and Polyphonia. He originated featured roles in Albert Evans's Haiku, Robbins's NY Export: Opus Jazz, Susan Stroman's Double Feature, and Richard Tanner's Soirée.
Headshot Photography: Angela Sterling.
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