The Director

Robin Sherertz Morgan, Artistic Director for the San Diego Ballet, also serves as Director and Choreographer for the Junior Company. A native of San Diego, Ms. Morgan began her dancing career with the original San Diego Ballet Company under the guidance of Richard Carter and Nancy Johnson. In 1971, having been awarded a full Ford Foundation Scholarship to the School of American Ballet, she trained under such notables as Alexandra Danilova, Stanley Williams, Muriel Stuart and others. She later danced with the New York City Ballet under the direction of George Balanchine, toured with Sulki Schorer's New York Lecture Ensemble, and performed in the Virgin Islands with Helgi Tomasson and Kay Mazzo. Since 1986, after declining an offer to join the Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle, Ms. Morgan has been developing her reputation in San Diego, first as a notable dancer and later as a teacher. She has served on the faculty of the School for the Creative and Performing Arts in Chula Vista, as Rehearsal Assistant for San Francisco Ballet's San Diego Productions of Nutcracker, Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty, and as an officer for the San Diego Dance Alliance. Ms. Morgan choreographed a ballet piece for the NBC-TV movie "Jonathan, the Boy Nobody Wanted." She founded the San Diego School of Ballet in 1989 and has been building on successful prerformances and talented dancers since then.