Elizabeth Zengara - BalletMet Columbus

Elizabeth Zengara’s eclectic training in ballet, jazz, and contemporary dance has helped her develop a unique style of highly expressive movement and given her the ability to successfully perform classical and contemporary choreography to great acclaim in the U.S. and abroad. Barbara Zuck of the Columbus Dispatch has described Ms. Zengara as BalletMet’s true ballerina. Jim Fowler of BalletMagazine stated “She is amazing and beautiful, I could watch her all night!” Stephanie Ferguson of the Guardian has said, “Zengara commands the stage.”

At BalletMet Columbus, Ms. Zengara has been honored to dance a spectrum of David Nixon’s choreography, including leading roles in his Dangerous Liaisons, Dracula, Beauty and the Beast, and his adaptation of Swan Lake. In addition, she has danced the leading role, Aurora, in The Sleeping Beauty and Giselle. From a contemporary perspective, she has enjoyed working with and dancing in works by Ben Stevenson, Birgit Scherzer, Alwin Nikolais, Alonzo King, Mark Godden, James Kudelka, Martino Müller, Paul Taylor Graham Lustig, and George Balanchine.

Prior to joining BalletMet, Ms. Zengara danced for Feld Ballet in New York and the Milwaukee Ballet. In the summer of 1999, she joined Twyla Tharp’s company as guest artist for a European tour of Tharp’s “Diabelli.” Other guest appearances include two tours of England with Northern Ballet Theatre and festivals in New York and Los Angeles.