B. Berryhill | P. England | S. Foster | K. Kessler | A. King | J. Lewis | A. Mader | J. Massey | S. Massey | C. Pallant | F. Walker | F. Wessells
Adjunct Faculty
Arnott Mader was born in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada and his early training was with Bettina Byers in the Royal Academy of Dance. Receiving a full scholarship to the Royal Ballet School in London, England, he graduated into the Sadler’s Wells Theater Ballet (2nd Company) and then to the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden where he remained for eight years. After his fourth American tour, he decided to stay in the U.S.A. and work in the small concert groups and the Radio City Music Hall Ballet before joining the American Ballet Theater where he stayed three years during which time they made a six month tour of Europe that included the Communist countries of Rumania, Bulgaria, and the former Soviet Union. When Ballet Theater’s finances failed, he tried musicals and toured in “Camelot,” “Hello, Dolly,” “Fiddler on the Roof” as dance captain, “Mama,” Lincoln Center’s production of “Carousel” with John Raitt and numerous other musicals that were ballet based. During these tours, he taught the dancers and singers classes and warm-ups before performances.
After retiring from the stage, his main teaching jobs include The Fort Wayne Ballet, The Cleveland Ballet, Fredericksburg Ballet Center and no concurrently The Richmond Ballet and VCU dance program for the past sixteen years. He and Barbara Fallis were the first teachers of American Ballet Theater 2 Company founded by Richard England, which was called Ballet Repertory. Summer intensive courses and workshops have included Reed College in Portland, Oregon, The Fairbanks, Alaska Arts Festival, Long Beach Ballet, Lake Erie Ballet, Dallas Ballet Center and Pittsburg Youth Ballet; the last two have been taught at for the last sixteen years. Apart from Bettina Byers and the company teachers of the Royal Ballet and American Ballet Theater, he has been fortunate to have worked with and been influenced by Igor Schwetzff, Robert Joffrey, Leon Danelian, Valentino pereyaslavec at ABT school, William Griffiths and Madame Yares Kevitch.