The Beauty of Dance, Part Seven: Erica Alvarado, Atlanta Ballet, Atlanta, GA

Erica Alvarado is a dancer with a long track record prior to joining the Atlanta Ballet.

The Tucson native trained on both coasts, at the schools of both the San Francisco Ballet and New York's American Ballet Theatre. She stated out professionally at her hometown company, Ballet Tucson, where she danced leading roles primarily in ballets choreographed by Antony Tudor.  She later joined the Milwaukee Ballet II program, and, in 2011, became a principal dancer at the City Ballet of San Diego. 

Among the ballets she was a principal dancer of in San Diego are Firebird, Giselle, Romeo and Juliet, and Serenade.  With such an impressive resume, it was inevitable that Ms. Alvarado would join one of the most important ballet companies in the Southeast.