TAYLOR
AYOTTE
From
Green Bay, Wisconsin
Joined
2016 as Trainee
Promotions
Principal in 2022
Soloist in 2020
Corps de Ballet in 2017
Favorite Role
Tall Girl in George Balanchine’s Rubies
Dancer Sponsors
Susan and David Brigham
Pointe Shoe Sponsor
Dr. Robert Schantz
Principal
ABOUT
Taylor Ayotte began her formal dance training at age 5 at the Green Bay School of Dance. At age 14, she accepted an invitation to study full-time at the School of American Ballet under Kay Mazzo, Suki Schorer, and Susan Pilarre. She attended summer courses on full scholarship at Pacific Northwest Ballet and the School of American Ballet. Ms. Ayotte’s featured roles with Carolina Ballet include George Balanchine’s Apollo as Calliope, Rubies as the Tall Girl, and Emeralds as the Principal Woman, as well as the Principal Couple in Zalman Raffael’s Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1. Her repertoire also includes George Balanchine’s Agon, Zalman Raffael’s In the Gray, Rhapsody in Blue, and Metaphorical Heart, Robert Weiss’ Sleeping Beauty, Lynn Taylor-Corbett’s Chiaroscuro and The Ugly Duckling, among others.