BalletNova Presents Don Quixote
Published Jan. 31, 2025, 1:53 p.m.
American Ballet Theatre Soloists Jarod Curley as Basilio and Léa Fleyoux as Kitri.
BalletNova Center for Dance is thrilled to announce American Ballet Theatre Soloists Jarod Curley and Léa Fleytoux as guest artists for Don Quixote.
Jarod Curley was born in Bethesda, Maryland and began his dance studies at the Frederick School of Classical Ballet in Frederick, Maryland in 2004. He continued his training at CityDance Conservatory in Rockville, Maryland with Ivy Chow and at Next Generation Ballet in Tampa, Florida, under the mentorship of Peter Stark. Curley spent his senior year of high school training on scholarship at the John Cranko School, the affiliate school of the Stuttgart Ballet.
Curley has participated in summer programs at Next Generation Ballet, School of American Ballet, Harid Conservatory, San Francisco Ballet School, Ellison Ballet and IBStage. He was a finalist at the Prix de Lausanne in 2015 and at the Youth America Grand Prix in 2015 and 2016.
Curley joined American Ballet Theatre Studio Company in September 2016, became an apprentice with the main Company in December 2018, and joined the corps de ballet in June 2019. He was promoted to Soloist in March 2024. His repertoire includes the Grand Pas de Deux from Don Quixote, Hilarion in Giselle, Dr. John Brown in Like Water for Chocolate, the Mouse King, Arabian man, and Spanish Dance in Alexei Ratmansky’s The Nutcracker, Mithridates and Ariston in Of Love and Rage, Sergiy in On the Dnipro, Prince Gremin in Onegin, Lord Montague in Romeo and Juliet, Winter in The Seasons, Some Assembly Required, von Rothbart in Swan Lake, “Becomings” in Woolf Works, leading roles in Piano Concerto No. 1 and ZigZag, and a featured role in Sinfonietta. He created a featured role in Collage & Creed.
ABT is grateful to the O’Neill Family Charitable Trust for supporting the Dancer Fund in honor of Jarod Curley
Mr. Curley appears courtesy of American Ballet Theatre.
Léa Fleytoux began her ballet training with Nicole Chouret in Paris then continued her training at the Conservatoire Municipal Camille Saint-Saens (2007-2010), École National Danse Marseille (2010-2013), and Conservetoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (2013-2016). Fleytoux was offered a scholarship to the American Ballet Theatre Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School in September 2016 after being selected to the Prix de Lausanne.
Fleytoux joined ABT Studio Company in January 2017, became an apprentice with the main Company in December 2018, and joined the corps de ballet in June 2019. She was promoted to Soloist in July 2024. Her repertoire includes the Grand Pas de Deux and Amour in Don Quixote,the peasant pas de deux in Giselle, Chencha in Like Water for Chocolate, one of the Nutcracker’s Sisters and the Chinese Dance in Alexei Ratmanky’s The Nutcracker, the pas de trois, a little swan, and the Hungarian Princess in Swan Lake, Young Clarissa in Woolf Works, and a featured role in Songs of Bukovina. She created a featured role in Collage & Creed.
ABT is grateful to Denise Littlefield Sobel and the Margaret King Moore Dancer Award for supporting the Dancer Fund in honor of Léa Fleytoux.
Ms. Fleytoux appears courtesy of American Ballet Theatre.
BalletNova Center for Dance, founded in 1981, is dedicated to educating and mentoring dancers in a positive, nurturing environment and preserving the traditions of classical ballet through quality dance productions and education. Formerly Arlington Center for Dance/The Center Dance Company, the organization moved to a beautiful six-studio 20,800 square foot state-of-the-art facility in 2008, and offers classes in ballet, modern, tap, jazz, and musical theatre for children, teens and adult dancers. The award-winning pre-professional ballet program is recognized as one of the best in the Metro Washington DC area. BalletNova also has an extensive Adult Dance Division with classes in Ballet, Contemporary, Tap, Jazz and Musical Theatre Dance. The Fredgren Studio Theatre, a 150-seat black box theatre designed for dance, opened in September 2014.
BalletNova is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization supported in part by the ARTSFAIRFAX, the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.