Leah
Terada
Leah Terada (she/her) 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. Leah joined Pacific Northwest Ballet as an apprentice in 2015 and was promoted to corps de ballet in 2016. She was promoted to soloist in 2022.
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 Roles
George Balanchine
George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker®
(Coffee, Harlequin, Hot Chocolate)
Alejandro Cerrudo
Future Memory*
Little mortal jump
One Thousand Pieces
William Forsythe
One Flat Thing, reproduced
Ronald Hynd
The Sleeping Beauty
(Fairy of Purity, White Cat)
Jessica Lang
Susan Marshall
Amanda Morgan
This Space Left Intentionally Blank*
Noelani Pantastico
Picnic*
Crystal Pite
Jerome Robbins
Price Suddarth
Robyn Mineko Williams
*Originated role
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