ARB Position: Dancer

Anthony Pototski began his training at the School of American Ballet in 2007, performing in The Nutcracker, Swan Lake and The Magic Flute. In 2012, he joined the Academy of Dance and Creative Art, where he danced pas de deux ranging from Giselle, Cinderella, Blue Bird, and The Nutcracker, to lesser known modern pieces. In 2016, he received a full scholarship to the American Ballet Theatre’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School, were he was fortunate to work with Cynthia Harvey, Robert La Fosse, Ethan Stiefel, Karin Averty, Fabrice Herrault and Pertujska Broholm. After graduating in 2020, he continued his training with the Bolshoi Ballet’s Margarita Smirnova in Milan, Italy, before returning to the U.S., to join Princeton Ballet School as a trainee. During his time with PBS, he performed in its spring production of Giselle, Sleeping Beauty, and in Ethan Stiefel’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. His ARB credits include Hilarion in Ethan Stiefel and Johan Kobborg’s Giselle, Caili Quan’s Circadia, Claire Davison’s Time Within A Time, Arthur Mitchell’s Holberg Suite, and Stiefel’s VARIANTS. This is his first season dancing as a company member.

Lily Krisko was raised in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania and began her formal ballet training at the age of 10.  Growing up, she trained at Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet (CPYB) in Carlisle, Pennsylvania under the direction of Marcia Dale Weary. While at CPYB, she had the honor to perform roles such as the Sugar Plum Fairy in George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker, Juliet in Alan Hineline’s Romeo & Juliet and Lead Russian Girl in Balanchine’s Serenade. Krisko attended many summers at Miami City Ballet as well as Ballet Academy East, CPYB and Philadelphia Ballet. She was then invited by Angel Corella to become a trainee with Philadelphia Ballet on full scholarship. While at Philadelphia Ballet, she performed Snow and Flowers in Balanchine’s The Nutcracker, 1st Regiment in Balanchine’s Stars and Stripes, and Swan Corps in Corella’s Swan Lake. With American Repertory Ballet, she has danced in Ethan Stiefel’s Delibes Duet, The Nutcracker, Ethan Stiefel and Johan Kobborg’s Giselle, and Arthur Mitchell’s Holberg Suite.

Roland Jones was born and raised in Poolesville, Maryland. He began training at Maryland Youth Ballet in 2012, before continuing his development as a trainee at Ballet West Academy under Jeff Rogers from 2017-2019. At Ballet West, he had the opportunity to perform as Oberon in George Balanchine’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and guest performed as Colas in the University of Utah’s production of La Fille Mal Gardée, before being promoted to Ballet West II. In 2021, Jones joined Richmond Ballet II under Igor Antonov and Malcolm Burn, performing in ballets Romeo and Juliet and Balanchine’s Allegro Brillante. Jones joined ARB as an apprentice in 2022, and performed in Da’Von Doane’s Kaleidoscope Mind, Caili Quan’s Circadia, Claire Davison’s Bewitched. Jones also had the opportunity to perform as the Snow King and Cavalier in ARB’s The Nutcracker.

Savannah Quiner was born and raised in northern New Jersey and began her formal ballet training at the North Jersey School of Dance Arts at the age of five under the direction of Christine Taylor and Luba Gulyaeva. In 2017, she placed first in classical at the Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) Semifinals in Boston and was a scholarship recipient at the YAGP Finals. She has danced the role of the Sugar Plum Fairy for various studios in New Jersey from 2018-2020 and in New York Theatre Ballet’s Nutcracker in 2021. Prior to joining ARB, she danced at American Ballet Theatre’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School for three years. She performed with American Ballet Theatre at Lincoln Center in Swan Lake (2019, 2022, & 2023), and in Manon (2019). At American Repertory Ballet, she has performed The Nutcracker as Snow Queen and Spanish Lead, Myrtha in Ethan Stiefel and Johan Kobborg’s Giselle, Ryoko Tanaka’s Hindsight, Amy Seiwert’s Sight Line, and Stiefel’s VARIANTS.

Hailing from New York, Seth Koffler began his training at the age of six in the Riverdale YMHA Dance Program. In 2012, he was accepted into the Children’s Division of American Ballet Theatre’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School on a full scholarship, learning from Franco De Vita, Melissa Bowman, Richard Bowman, Miklhail Ilyin, and Elizabeth Ferrell. He contributed his training through the graduated from that program in 2016 and continued his training with ABT’s JKO School in the Pre-Professional Division where he trained with Cynthia Harvey, Mikhail Ilyin, Robert La Fosse, and Ethan Stiefel. At the age of 10, Koffler danced various roles in Alexei Ratmansky’s production of The Nutcracker for American Ballet Theatre at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. In 2015, he performed the role of the Little Nutcracker Prince in the ABT’s production at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa, California. His ARB credits include The Nutcracker, Ethan Stiefel’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, VARIANTS, Delibes Duet; Claire Davison’s Time Within A Time; as well as Ethan Stiefel and Johan Kobborg’s Giselle. In summer of 2023, Koffler performed Grand Pas Classique at the Les Rayonnantes Festival in Perpignan, France.

Tiziano Cerrato was born and raised in Rome, Italy, where he began his early training at the age of nine. Among his earliest teachers was the legendary Italian ballerina Elisabetta Terabust. He continued his training at Rome’s Accademia Nazionale di Danza where he studied with Giuseppina Ercolani and the celebrated Croatian ballet dancer Zarko Prebil. From 2016-2019, he trained at the Accademia Teatro alla Scala in Milan with Leonid Nikonov, Frederic Oliveiri and Maurizio Vanadia. In 2019, Cerrato joined American Ballet Theatre’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School where he trained under Cynthia Harvey, Mikhail Ilyin, Robert La Fosse and Ethan Stiefel. During the 2020-2021 season, Cerrato was a trainee with the San Francisco Ballet under Patrick Armand, and Helgi Tomasson. His American Repertory Ballet credits include The Nutcracker, Stiefel’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Delibes Duet and VARIANTS, Arthur Mitchell’s Holberg Suite, Amy Seiwert’s Sight Line, and Ethan Stiefel and Johan Kobborg’s Giselle.

Clara Pevel was born and raised in France, where she began her training. In 2018, she was selected to join the American Ballet Theatre’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School on a scholarship, awarded to her by Cynthia Harvey at the Youth America Grand Prix. Highlights of her career include being the only student chosen to perform The Nutcracker with ABT (2019), participating in the choreographic project at Le Prix de Lausanne (2020), appearing on the French TV show Prodiges in front of 50,000 people in Lille, France (2017), and the third place winner at the Young America Grand Prix (2018). At ABT’s JKO school, Pevel trained with Cynthia Harvey, Mikhail Ilyin, Robert La Fosse, Ethan Stiefel, Petrujska Broholm and Karin Averty. Since joining ARB in 2021, she has performed in David Fernandez’s Mexican Music, The Nutcracker, Titania opposite Gillian Murphy in Ethan Stiefel’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Delibes Duet, Ethan Stiefel and Johan Kobborg’s Giselle, and Arthur Mitchell’s Holberg Suite.

Leandro Olcese was born in Brazil and raised in Italy. In 2013, he began his training at Spazio Danza Cicagna in Italy, and continued his training at the English National Ballet School from 2016-2019. He joined Northern Ballet in 2019, where he performed in Ethan Stiefel’s Beneath the Surface, an original dance film by Northern Ballet, American Ballet Theatre and Burberry Inspire. His American Repertory Ballet credits include The Nutcracker, Stiefel’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Ja’ Malik’s Moving to Bach, Caili Quan’s Circadia, Ryoko Tanaka’s Hindsight, Arthur Mitchell’s Holberg Suite, and Ethan Stiefel and Johan Kobborg’s Giselle.

Michelle Quiner was born and raised in Chester, New Jersey, and began her formal ballet training at the North Jersey School of Dance Arts under the direction of Christine Taylor and Luba Gulyaeva. In 2010, she was cast as Clara for the Radio City Christmas Spectacular starring the Rockettes. She has been featured on the cover of Inside Dance magazine (May 2019) and in Dance Spirit magazine both as a Cover Model Search Finalist and the Dancer You Should Know. Quiner has been a final round participant at the World Ballet Competition and a bronze medalist at the Valentina Kozlova IBC Contemporary Competition. She spent a year at the Washington Ballet School on full scholarship under the direction of Xiomara Reyes before joining the ARB Trainee program. She was promoted to ARB2 in 2020, the apprentice in 2021, and joined the company in 2022. Quiner has performed featured roles in ARB’s The Nutcracker including Dew Drop, Hot Chocolate, Marizpan and Bird Song. Other performances with ARB include Myrtha in Ethan Stiefel and Johan Kobborg’s Giselle, Cobweb and Fairy Attendant in Stiefel’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Diana & Acteon Pas De Deux, Don Quixote Pas De Deux; Caili Quan’s Circadia; Ryoko Tanaka’s Hindsight, Colby Damon’s Strange Sentience, Stiefel’s VARIANTS, and Arthur Mitchell’s Holberg Suite.

Madison Elizabeth Egyud was raised in Newtown, Pennsylvania and began her formal ballet training at the Princeton Ballet School at the age of 6. In 2012, she attended American Ballet Theatre’s summer intensive on full scholarship, awarded by Philadelphia Dance Access. That summer, she was invited to study year-round at the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at ABT where she continued her training for the next five years under the direction of Franco DeVita and Cynthia Harvey. Egyud danced as a trainee with American Repertory Ballet for two seasons before joining ARB2 in 2020. She was promoted to apprentice in the beginning of 2022, and joined the company later that year. During her time with ARB she has had the privilege of performing featured roles such as Coffee in ARB’s The Nutcracker and Elena in Ethan Stiefel’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Other works with the company include Colby Damon’s Strange Sentience, Ethan Stiefel’s Wood Work and VARIANTS, Claire Davison’s Time Within A Time and Bewitched, Ethan Stiefel and Johan Kobborg’s Giselle, Ryoko Tanaka’s Hindsight, and Arthur Mitchell’s Holberg Suite.