Beatriz Stix-Brunell, Dancer

Born in Miami in 1993, Beatriz Stix-Brunell began her training at age seven at the School of American Ballet. Between 2000 and 2005 she danced in numerous children's roles with the New York City Ballet, appearing in works by Balanchine, Jerome Robbins and Peter Martins. She was admitted to L'Ecole de Danse de L'Opera de Paris in 2005, and danced in Serge Lifar's Entre Deux Rondes, Les Demonstrations de L'Ecole de Danse, and with the Paris Opera Ballet in Rudolf Nureyev's La Bayadere. After receiving the year's highest scores in the Paris Opera's 2005 examinations, Beatriz returned to New York to continue her classical training at the Fabrice Hearrault Studio. In 2006, she became a National Training Scholar at American Ballet Theatre's JKO School, and danced in Kevin McKenzie's original production of The Sleeping Beauty. Since Joining Morphoses, Beatriz has featured in Christopher Wheeldon's Dance of the Hours, and There Where She Loved, Polyphonia, and originated a role in Commedia. She is currently in the tenth grade at the Nightingale-Bamford School.