PNB dancer Leah Terada. Photo by Lindsay Thomas.

Leah Terada

Soloist

Pronouns: She/Her
Soloist: 2022
Corps de Ballet: 2016
Apprentice: 2015

Leah Terada is from Dallas, Texas. She studied at Dallas Metropolitan Ballet and the School of American Ballet, and she attended summer courses on full scholarship at Pacific Northwest Ballet, the School of American Ballet, and Boston Ballet.

In 2020, Leah co-choreographed and co-directed Happening with fellow PNB dancer Miles Pertl for PNB’s digital season. In 2021 she choreographed On Being for PNB’s NEXT STEP. Leah was the recipient of the Danish American Nationals Cultural Exchange (DANCE) scholarship.

Leading & Featured Roles

George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker® // George Balanchine

Coffee, Harlequin, Hot Chocolate

One Thousand Pieces // Alejandro Cerrudo
Little mortal jump // Alejandro Cerrudo
One Flat Thing, reproduced // William Forsythe
The Sleeping Beauty // Ronald Hynd

Fairy of Purity, White Cat

Ghost Variations // Jessica Lang
Emergence // Crystal Pite
Plot Point // Crystal Pite
Dances at a Gathering // Jerome Robbins
Arms // Susan Marshall

Original Roles

Future Memory // Alejandro Cerrudo
Picnic // Noelani Pantastico
The Intermission Project // Price Suddarth
Before I Was // Robyn Mineko Williams