ARB Position: Apprentices

Born and raised in Charlottesville, Virginia, Avery Snyder began her dance training at the Wilson School of Dance at the age of 3. When her interest in ballet grew into a passion for the art form, Snyder sought private training to refine her technique. She took 2 years of private lessons with Nicole Busse McGurn before attending the Charlottesville Ballet Academy in 2011. Snyder trained at the Charlottesville Ballet Academy until 2016 when she joined the professional company as a Trainee while she simultaneously completed her junior year of high school.  In 2018, she attended the University of North Carolina School of the Arts high school classical ballet program for her senior year. Snyder continued her training under the esteemed faculty of UNCSA at the collegiate level and graduated in May of 2021 with a BFA in classical ballet. Following her graduation from UNCSA, Snyder accepted a traineeship with American Repertory Ballet and was promoted to ARB2 in May of 2023. As a Trainee, she was given the opportunity to perform various soloist roles such as Dew Drop in The Nutcracker, Lilac Fairy in The Sleeping Beauty, and Moyna in Giselle. With ARB, Snyder has been given the opportunity to premiere Ethan Stiefel’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 2022 and in Ethan Stiefel and Johan Kobborg’s Giselle.

Born in Munich, Germany to German and Italian parents, Jasmine Jasper began her training at the age of 5 in a nearby studio in her hometown. In 2008 she moved to Orlando, FL with her family where she started dancing at the Orlando Ballet School, training with Rebecca Martin and Theresa Crawford. She later joined the Central Florida Ballet in 2011, under the direction of Vasile Petrutiu, Vladimir Bykov, and Natalya Bashkatova. In 2015, she was accepted into ABT’s JKO School, where she performed in Jessica Lang’s The Gift, Alexei Ratmansky’s Rondo Capriccioso, Jerome Robbins’ Interplay, ABT’s Spring Preview as Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty, and ABT’s Le Corsaire, and Harlequinade, all while under the training of Cynthia Harvey, Robert La Fosse, Ethan Stiefel, Karin Averty, Fabrice Herrault, Pertujska Broholm, and Harriet Clark. In 2020, she became a NYU/ABT Certified Teacher and joined Princeton Ballet School as a Trainee a year later. There she had the opportunity to dance the title role in Princeton Ballet School’s spring production of Giselle, and to be a part of Ethan Stiefel’s A Midsummers Night’s Dream, right before joining the school’s company as an ARB2 dancer in 2022 and then becoming an Apprentice soon after. She has taken part in productions such as Ethan Stiefel and Johan Kobborg’s Giselle, The Nutcracker, Stiefel’s VARIANTS and Wood Work, Arthur Mitchell’s Holberg Suite and more.