Terri Lynn Wright

Instructs: Ballet

 

Ms Wright received her early training with Barbara Carson and Stanley Hall in Austin, Texas. She studied with Robert Joffrey, Patricia Wilde, Kirsten Ralov, Kirsten Simone, and Peter Appel during the summers in the U.S. and in Europe.

Ms. Wright began her professional dance career in Wiesbaden, Germany followed by ten years with the North Carolina Dance Theatre where she became principal dancer as well as an assistant to director Salvatore Aiello. She enjoyed Dance Theatre’s divers repertoire that included works by choreographers such as Salvatore Aiello, Oscar Ariaz, George Balanchine, August Bournonville, Bill Evans, Lambrose Lambrou, Luk de Layress, Robert Lindgren, Lar Lubovitch, Susan McKee-McCullough, Elisa Monte, Vicente Nebrada, Marius Petipa, Helgi Tomasson, Mel Tomlinson, Norbert Vesak, Mauricio Wainrot and Alvin Ailey.

Leading roles performed in Balanchine’s Allegro Brillante, Scotch Symphony, Glinka Pas de Trois, Pas de Dix and Valse Fantasie were coached by Melissa Hayden and Marina Eglevsky. Ms Wright taught master classes while touring with N.C.D.T. Throughout the U.S. and Europe, for North Carolina School of the Arts summer sessions and was a guest teacher at Arts Magnet High School in Dallas.

She continues to help care for works choreographed by the late Mr. Aiello. As a teacher, Ms. Wright’s methods evolve with the students’ needs and the ever increasing demands of the professional dancer.