FSPA Ballet Conservatory presents Ballet Works 2020 April 4 at 2 PM and 7 PM at the Franklin High School Auditorium.  Under the direction of Morgan Brown Sanborn, the students represent Paquita and Contemporary works with Choreography fromguest choreographer Jeremy Ruth Howes, and FSPA Dance Faculty Cheryl Madeux and Casey Harkness Andrade. 

Jeremy Ruth Howes is a noted choreographer, educator, dancer and freelance photographer. She holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College and a BFA in Dance Performance from the University of Hartford’s Hartt School of Dance. She received her early training from Mihailo Djuric and Susan Duffy and she also studied at Boston Ballet School and the Martha Graham School. For the past 17 years she has been a dancer with Anna Myer and Dancers creating roles in Myer’s original choreography. Early in her career she danced with Virginia Ballet Theatre and Northern Ballet Theatre and as a guest artist with Hartford Ballet and Northeast Youth Ballet. Her diverse repertoire includes principal and soloist roles in neoclassical, contemporary and classical ballets including: George Balanchine’s Serenade, Martha Graham’s Steps in the Street, Katie Stevinson-Nollet’s Guernsey Fields, Thang Dao’s Adagio 4:4, Denise Cecere’s The Nutcracker, Passion, Big Band, Three Little Pigs and Ma Goose, Peggy Lyman Hayes’ Yes, is a World and the full-length ballet’s of Le Corsaire, Swan Lake, La Bayadère, The Nutcracker, Raymonda, Paquita and The Sleeping Beauty. 

Jeremy Ruth is also a highly sought-after educator and award-winning choreographer. Her choreography has been performed internationally and featured at the American College Dance Festival. She has created 21 original ballets for Dean College’s Dance Company and her newest ballet Ocean’s Apart premiered alongside work by Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux and Joseph Jefferies at Northeast School of Ballet’s Fall Series. She is on faculty at Dean College, The Conservatory at Northeast School of Ballet and Walker’s Dance. Many of her students have gone on to study at prestigious summer programs and dance with companies around the world. Her greatest joy is instilling the love of ballet in her students and watching the transformative power of dance in action.