DANIELLA
PARISOT
Dance Educator, Choreographer, Performer
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Dance Educator, Choreographer, Performer
Originally from Connecticut, Daniella Parisot received her early dance training from James Robey, Peter O'Brien (Royal Ballet), Anthony Jones (PNB), Christina Paloucci, and Terence Duncan (New York Theater Ballet) and private instruction with Bryan Lewis. She then received a BFA in Ballet Pedagogy and Dance Performance from The Hartt School at the University of Hartford.
While at The Hartt School, Parisot had the opportunity to train under notable teachers: Stephen Pier, Hilda Morales, Nina Watt, Miki Orihara, Katie Stevenson-Nollet, Debra Collins Ryder, Sarkis Kaltakhtchian and many others. At Hartt, she was fortunate enough to perform works by George Balanchine, Claudia Schreier, José Limón, Jean-Paul Comelin, Norbert De La Cruz III, and many others.
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Upon graduation, she became a company artist with Ballet Hartford, where she performed and also worked with notable choreographers, including Elizabeth McMillian, Silas Farley, Michelle Thompson-Ulerich, and Mikhail Fokine.
Parisot was on the ballet faculty and the office coordinator at the Hartt School Community Division Dance Department in Hartford, CT, before moving to Nashville, TN, in 2019 to further her teaching and choreographic career. There, she works closely with the growing dance community as a teacher, freelance choreographer, and performer. She was on the dance faculty of The Harpeth Hall School and is currently on the ballet faculty at the Centennial Youth Ballet of the Metro Parks Dance Division, where she regularly choreographs and stages classical and contemporary repertoire.
Daniella Parisot is a certified Progressing Ballet Technique © instructor
For more information on Parisot's formal pedagogy education and philosophy, you may view it here.