Megan Kamler

Rochester City Ballet

Company Dancer

Ballet and Dance Alumni, Megan Kamler - Draper Center Ballet School, Rochester NY

Ms. Kamler joined Rochester City Ballet in 2011 after receiving her training at the Timothy M. Draper Center for Dance Education and the University of Arizona where she earned her BFA in Dance. She received additional training at the National Ballet School of Canada summer intensive on scholarship and the summer intensives of Ballet Austin and the Ellison Training Program in New York City.

While at the University of Arizona she performed highlighted roles such as Choleric in Balanchine’s Four Temperaments, Big Swan in Swan Lake, and the Friend in Carmina Burana. Following her college graduation she was invited to perform with Art.if.act Dance in an 18 city tour of China.

With the Rochester City Ballet she has performed as the Maid, Harlequin, English Toffee, Magical Doll, Italian Ice, Dew Drop and Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker, Anna in The Blood Countess, Cinderella in Cinderella, and Elegy Girl and Waltz Girl in Balanchine’s Serenade. Contemporary roles with RCB include 4Play, New York CityScapes, Bravo! Colorado, InCantation, The Ugly Duckling by Jimmy Orrante, Slightly Sinful by Danny Rosseel, and Bach de Trois by Nikolai Kabaniev. More recently she has had the opportunity to perform soloist roles in both new and previous works by David Palmer and Yanis Pikieris such as Under the Moonlight, Summer of Love, Mist, Green Eggs and Ham, and Adiemus.

Draper Center for Dance Education