The ballet company for Northeast Georgia!

Principal dancers

Peter swan & Rommie stalnaker

Dancing is your pulse,

“Dancing is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing.   It’s the rhythm of your life.  It’s the expression in time and movement, joy, sadness and envy.”

~ Jaques D’ambroise
Text Box: The 2008-2009 season was Peter’s eighth as a principal dancer with GBC. He has performed numerous roles for GBC among them Sugar Plum Cavalier and Snow Prince. Previously, Peter performed professionally for seven years with Atlanta Festival Ballet dancing soloist roles such as Nicolas Pacana’s “Beauty and the Beast,” “Swan Lake,” “Peter Pan,” and “The Nutcracker.” In 2002, Peter was invited to attend the Rock School’s Summer Intensive on a full scholarship, where he furthered his training under instructors and principal dancers from the NYC Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Pennsylvania Ballet, and the Bolshoi Ballet. A guest artist much in demand in the Southeast, Peter has performed with Atlanta Dance Unlimited, Gwinnett Ballet Theatre, Dalton Ballet Company, Southeast Alabama Dance Company, Rome Civic Ballet, UGA, LaGrange Ballet, Jacksonville University, Appalachian Ballet, Ballet Arts Ensemble of Fairfax, and as Prince Siegfried in “Swan Lake” for Ruth Mitchell Dance Theatre. Peter will be dancing with the Charleston Ballet Theatre for 2009-2010. We will miss him! Text Box: Rommie Stalnaker began dancing at the age of three in Baltimore, Maryland and continued training at the Atlanta School of Ballet at the age of six.  There she worked with Robert Barnett, Maniya Barredo (her ballet mentor), Carl Ratcliff (her modern mentor), Virginia Barnett, Gaynor Grange, and Andrea Pell.  Rommie has performed in everything from “The Nutcracker” to “Romeo and Juliet”.  She had a starring role in Lila York’s ballet, “Rapture” (1996), and was John McFall’s muse for Nicholas in “The Nutcracker”.  At seventeen, Rommie danced in the Cleveland San Jose Ballet Company in Ohio, working with Dennis Nahat and Christopher Tabor.  After moving home to Georgia and starting a family with her husband, Corey, Rommie moved to New York City to further her education at the Alvin Ailey School.  She was later accepted into Washington Reflections Dance Company, where she worked with artistic director Fabian Barnes and associate artistic director Dean Anderson.  Rommie also worked with Michael Blake (from Donald Byrd’s company), Ray Tadio, Francisco Gella, Thaddeus Davis, and two-time Tony Award winner Hinton Battle.  She has performed in New York (Dance Theatre Workshop, Riverside Church, and APAP); Washington, DC (Kennedy Center, Lincoln Theatre, and the Dance Place); and in the Dominican Republic with their National Ballet Company.  Rommie’s final performance with Washington Reflections was in Massachusetts at Jacob’s Pillow.  Since her return to Georgia, Rommie has had the opportunity to attend the summer intensive company workshop at Parsons Dance in New York City (2007, 2008).  There she had the wonderful opportunity to work privately with the artistic director, David Parsons.  Rommie has been a professional dancer with the Gainesville Ballet Company for four years and received her BFA from Brenau University in May 2008, graduating Summa Cum Laude.  She is leaving us this fall to pursue other dance opportunities.

The artist never entirely knows.  We guess.

We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

 ~ Agnes de Mille