Ballet
Linnea Swarting began dancing at the age of 3 in New Canaan, CT at New England Academy of Dance.
She eventually joined New England Dance Theater, NEAD's pre-professional company, while also training privately with Christina Fagundes, former dancer of American Ballet Theater and San Fransisco Ballet. Ms. Swarting finished her training at University of North Carolina School of the Arts High School Program and Boston Ballet School. She then danced for The Washington Ballet, Nashville Ballet, Los Angeles Ballet, Ballet Project OC, and Georgia Dance Theatre, as well as appearing as a guest principal dancer at Ballet Arts Jackson and Connecticut Dance Theater Company. She was chosen to represent the United States at the Varna International Ballet Competition in 2018. Ms. Swarting is currently dancing with the Grand Kyiv Ballet as of Sept. 2024.
Performance highlights include: The Fairy Godmother in Georgia Dance Theatre's "Cinderella," Sugar Plum Fairy, Snow Queen and Arabian soloist in Sherri Davis' "The Nutcracker," Milo Roberts in Sherri Davis' "An American in Paris," featured roles in contemporary works by Jevgeni Gribb and Konstantin Keykhel at "Summer Nights Gala" at Estonian National Opera House in Tallinn, Estonia, Thordal Christensen's "The Nutcracker" and "The Sleeping Beauty," Annabelle Lopez Ochoa's "Bloom," Leading Swans in Paul Vasterling's "Swan Lake," featured roles in Paul Vasterling's "The Nutcracker," "Carmina Burana," and "The Four Seasons," George Balanchine's "Western Symphony" and "Serenade," Septime Webre's "Alice in Wonderland" and "The Nutcracker."
In addition to performing, Ms. Swarting is a dance instructor with over 10 years of experience, specializing in ballet technique, pointe, and coaching. Several of her previous students have gone on to gain employment with professional ballet companies and acceptances to high- level schools. Ms. Swarting has taught ballet as a guest teacher for several dance studios in Nashville and Los Angeles, led master classes for UCLA's Ballet Company and "A Chance to Dance," Los Angeles Ballet's Outreach Program. She can also be seen demonstrating in several ballet classes for worldwide dance platform, Steezy. In 2017, Ms. Swarting completed Boston Ballet's Adaptive Dance Teacher Training program, and in 2018 she co- founded and taught School of Nashville Ballet's "Adaptive Dance: New Perspectives," a dance class for students of all abilities. While leading this program, she secured funding from the Nashville Predators Foundation to put all students on scholarship, and actively worked to increase diversity and inclusion in the community of Nashville Ballet. More recently, Ms. Swarting was the program lead and primary teacher of "Dance Without Limits," an adaptive dance class at Georgia Academy of Dance. As Arts Programs Coordinator for Georgia Academy of Dance and Georgia Dance Theatre, she choreographed, performed in, and led several outreach programs around Fayette and Coweta Counties in Georgia with the goal of bringing high quality performing arts programs to all.
