The Beauty of Dance, Part Three: Amanda Cobb, The Washington Ballet, Washington, DC

Amanda Cobb began her third season with the Washington Ballet in 2010.

Originally from Tucson, Arizona, Amanda Cobb studied dance in New York and returned to her native state to perform as a principal ballerina with Ballet Tucson, joining the now-defunct Ohio Ballet in 2001 and the American Ballet Theatre in 2004.

Among the principal roles she's danced are Kick Girl in George Balanchine's Rubies and Tiger Lilly in Septime Webre's Peter Pan.