About Mobile Ballet
Artistic Staff
Winthrop Corey, Artistic Director Winthrop Corey is Artistic Director of Mobile Ballet Company, and a summer faculty member for Joffrey Ballet School in New York. He also has served as a summer instructor for American Ballet Theatre. Mr. Corey holds the distinction of having been a principal dancer with two world-renown companies, Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet and The National Ballet of Canada. He is especially well known for his classical roles in The Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Giselle, and Cinderella. He also is noted for dancing opposite Rudolph Nureyev in José Limón’s classic work The Moor’s Pavane. Most recently he was awarded a Dance Fellowship from the State Council on the Arts for his service to the State of Alabama during his more than twenty years at Mobile Ballet. Mr. Corey also has been a five-time coach for the New York International Ballet Competition, coaching dancers from all over the world in The Sleeping Beauty pas de deux and the Black Swan pas de deux. Mr. Corey has been a guest teacher at Brown University, the University of Connecticut, Dance Masters of America, Boston Dance Teachers Club, Professional Dance Teachers Association New York and has taught master classes throughout the United States, Canada, and Portugal. He serves as a coach for international ballet competitions. And, he is a guest choreographer for companies throughout the United States. He has staged and choreographed full-length productions of The Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, Giselle, Romeo & Juliet, Cinderella, Swan Lake as well as two original ballets, Dracula and A Streetcar Named Desire. As a costume designer, Mr. Corey is noted for his designs for Swan Lake, Cinderella, The Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, and Romeo & Juliet. His original design and construction of the classical tutu has gained him national attention. For more information about his designs, please visit his website at www.winthropcoreydesigns.com.
