Tricia Albertson

Rehearsal Director

Hometown: Santa Cruz, California

Tricia Albertson was born in Newburgh, NY and raised in Santa Cruz, CA. She began her ballet training at The Studio School of Classical Ballet with Vicki Bergland and Rebecca Bartlow. She received additional training attending summer programs at San Francisco Ballet School and the School of American Ballet (SAB) in New York City. Starting in 1995, she attended SAB as a full-time student for two years, and in 1997 she joined Miami City Ballet as a Coryphée. In 2001 she was promoted to Soloist, in 2005 she was promoted to Principal Soloist, and in 2006 she was promoted to Principal dancer.

Tricia celebrated her 25th season with Miami City Ballet in 2021/22, she has had the privilege to dance most of the corps, soloist and principal roles in the company’s repertoire. She has also had the opportunity to originate roles for Justin Peck and Liam Scarlett. In the off-season she has enjoyed performing in international galas as well as a guest artist with the Maryland Regional Ballet performing full-length ballets such as Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella. Tricia has also been a repetiteur for Justin Peck’s Heatscape and a guest teacher at Toledo Ballet, Cary Ballet Conservatory and Joffrey Ballet School.

Roles since joining MCB

Sir Frederick Ashton
Les Patineurs

George Balanchine
Agon
Allegro Brillante
Apollo
Ballet Imperial
Ballo della Regina
Bourrée Fantasque
Concerto Barocco
Divertimento No. 15
Donizetti Variations
Duo Concertant
Emeralds from Jewels
Episodes
George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker® (Sugarplum Fairy, Dewdrop)
Glinka Pas de Trois
La Sonnambula (Coquette)
La Source
La Valse
Rubies from Jewels
Scotch Symphony
Serenade
Sonatine
Square Dance
Swan Lake, Act II
Symphony in C
Symphony in Three Movements
Tarantella
The Four Temperaments
The Steadfast Tin Soldier
Theme and Variations
Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux
Valse Fantaisie (1953)
Western Symphony
Who Cares?

Nacho Duato
Jardí Tancat

Trey McIntyre
The Reassuring Effects of Form and Poetry

Justin Peck
Chutes and Ladders
Heatscape
Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes

Year of the Rabbit

Alexei Ratmansky
Concerto DSCH
Symphonic Dances

Jerome Robbins
Dances at a Gathering
Fancy Free
Fanfare
In the Night
Other Dances

The Cage
The Concert
West Side Story Suite

Liam Scarlett
Euphotic
Viscera

Paul Taylor
Arden Court
Company B
Funny Papers
Mercuric Tidings
Piazzolla Caldera
Promethean Fire
Sunset

Twyla Tharp
Baker’s Dozen
In The Upper Room
NIGHTSPOT
Nine Sinatra Songs
Push Comes to Shove
The Golden Section

Edward Villella
The Neighborhood Ballroom

Christopher Wheeldon
Polyphonia

Classical Repertoire
Aurora’s Wedding, Marius Petipa (Lilac Fairy)
Coppélia, Arthur Saint-Léon (Swanhilda)
Don Quixote, Marius Petipa and Alexander Gorsky (Cupid, Queen of the Dryads)
Giselle, Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot (Giselle)