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: This is Peter’s seventh season 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. Text Box: Rommie began dancing at the age of 6 in Baltimore, Maryland and continued training at the Atlanta School of Ballet. 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 sixteen, Rommie danced in the Cleveland San Jose Ballet in Ohio, working with Dennis Nahat and Christopher Tabor. Rommie married and started her family in Georgia before moving 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’s final performance with Washington Reflections was in Massachusetts at Jacob’s Pillow. In 2005, she returned to Georgia to obtain a dance degree at Brenau and will graduate in May of 2008. She is in her third season as a principal dancer with Gainesville Ballet Company. In her brief time with GBC, Rommie has performed numerous soloist roles; among them the Sugar Plum Fairy & Dewdrop Fairy in the Nutcracker and Alice in Alice in Wonderland.

The artist never entirely knows.  We guess.

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

 ~ Agnes de Mille