Adrienne Kerr

Principal Dancer with Ballet Idaho Adrienne’s dance education began in Albuquerque and has included additional summer training in internationally-recognized ballet programs. In Youth America Grand Prix solo and contemporary competitions, she earned several Top 12 and bronze honors before performing in New York finals. At age 14, Adrienne entered Pacific Northwest Ballet School on a full annual scholarship. She joined Ballet Idaho at age 17 where she was nominated for the prestigious Princess Grace Foundation Dance Performance Award. In addition to her study of principal roles with Gelsey Kirkland in New York, Adrienne has performed lead roles in Anastos’ Firebird, Don Quixote, Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Balanchine’s Square Dance, Walpurgisnacht, Who Cares?, Serenade, and Rubies. As a Principal dancer, Adrienne has been praised in Anastos’ Firebird, Don Quixote, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Sleeping Beauty, Raymonda, Swan Lake, Ravel’s Concerto; Balanchine’s Rubies, Concerto Barocco, Agon, Tharp’s Nine Sinatra Songs, Mineko-Williams’ Grey Horses, Davidson’s Ambiguous Content, and Liang’s Cinderella. Most recently, she filmed Amarante’s Love Fear Loss and danced the title role for the premiere of his Carmen Suite in collaboration with the Boise Philharmonic, performed in Davidson’s Ghost(Light) premiere, Rowe’s For Pixie, Mineko-Williams’ I Will Always See Your Face, danced Belle in Bruce Wells’ Beauty and the Beast, Balanchine’s Divertimento No. 15, Stephanie Martinez’s KISS, and debuted as Odette in the Anderson/Mueller’s Swan Lake premiere. Adrienne has been nominated for Idaho Business Review’s 40 Accomplished Under 40 (a program developed to recognize achievements of Idaho’s young leaders in business), served as Ballet Idaho’s company dancers’ representative, is currently a Featured Artist for RP brand, has modeled for clients such as Canon, Sony and sculptor Benjamin Victor, is a dance competition adjudicator, master class teacher, pointe shoe fitting advisor, in addition to performing with local contemporary dance company Project Flux. She also teaches advanced ballet/ pointe and jazz classes, Dance for Parkinson’s, and summer intensive courses throughout the northwest. Her select private students have been accepted to nationwide summer, collegiate, and annual training programs, as well as professional companies. This is Adrienne’s sixteenth season with Ballet Idaho.