Julia Rowe

Biography

Born in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, Julia Rowe trained at Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet and San Francisco Ballet School. She danced with Oregon Ballet Theatre before joining San Francisco Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet in 2013 and was promoted to soloist in 2016. 

Snapshot
  • BORN 

Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania 

  • TRAINING 

Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet 

San Francisco Ballet School 

  • SAN FRANCISCO BALLET 

Joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet in 2013 

Promoted to soloist in 2016 

  • OTHER COMPANIES 

Oregon Ballet Theatre 

Repertoire - SF Ballet
  • BALANCHINE

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hermia, Divertissement Ensemble, Lead Butterfly) 

Allegro Brillante 

Coppélia (Swanilda’s Friends, Brides, Spinner, Jesterettes) 

Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet (2nd movement Demi-Soloist) 

Divertimento No. 15 (Allegro – Jumping Woman) 

The Four Temperaments (Melancholic and Sanguinic Demi-Soloist) 

Rubies 

Serenade (Russian Girl) 

Symphony in C (4th movement and finale Demi-Soloist)  

Theme and Variations  

  • BARTON 

Mere Mortals (originated Ensemble) 

  • BOURNONVILLE

La Sylphide (effy)  

  • CANIPAROLI

Ibsen’s House (Nora Helmer in “A Doll’s House”) 

Lambarena (Principal)  

Tears (Principal) 

  • CRANKO 

Onegin 

  • FORSYTHE 

Blake Works I 

Pas/Parts 2016 (originated) 

The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude 

  • GARLAND 

Haffner Serenade (originated) 

  • LANDER

Études (Excerpt) | (Ladies in White) 

  • LIANG 

The Infinite Ocean (originated) 

  • LOPEZ OCHOA

Broken Wings (Birds) 

Guernica (originated) 

  • MACMILLAN 

Song of the Earth 

  • MAKAROVA after Petipa 

La Bayadère, Act II (“The Kingdom of the Shades”) 

  • MARSTON 

Mrs. Robinson (Elaine Robinson) 

  • MILLEPIED 

The Chairman Dances—Quartet for Two 

  • MORRIS 

Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes  

Maelstrom 

Sandpaper Ballet (Trumpeter) 

  • NEUMEIER

The Little Mermaid (Bridesmaid Soloist, School Friends) 

  • OISHI 

Bolero (originated) 

  • PECK

In the Countenance of Kings 

  • POSSOKHOV

Firebird  

Fusion (Principal) 

Violin Concerto (originated Principal Couple)  

  • RATMANSKY

From Foreign Lands (Russian, Polish, Hungarian) 

Symphony #9 and Piano Concerto #1 in Shostakovich Trilogy 

The Seasons (Frost, The Rose) 

  • ROBBINS

Glass Pieces  

  • SCARLETT 

Fearful Symmetries 

Frankenstein (Justine Moritz) 

Hummingbird (originated) 

  • THATCHER 

Ghost in the Machine 

Manifesto  

Otherness (originated) 

Stone and Steel 

  • TOMASSON

7 for Eight  

Caprice (originated) 

Don Quixote (Cupid, Kitri’s Friends) 

Giselle (Peasant Pas de cinq, Giselle’s Friends, Solo Wilis, Wilis) 

Haffner Symphony 

Harmony (originated Ensemble) 

Nutcracker (Housekeeper, Maid, Ballerina Doll, Spanish, Snowflakes, Queen of the Snow, Sugar Plum Fairy, Flowers, Grand Pas de deux) 

Prism 

Romeo & Juliet (Acrobats) 

The Sleeping Beauty (Fairy of Generosity, Diamond Fairy, Enchanted Princess/Bluebird Pas de deux) 

Swan Lake (Act 1 Pas de trois, Cygnets, Swans, Neapolitan, Corps) 

Trio 

  • WHEELDON

Cinderella (Stepsister Clementine, Spirit of Spring/Lightness, Spring Corps, Attendants to the Princesses) 

Ghosts (Demi-Soloist) 

Rush 

Repertoire - other companies
  • BALANCHINE 

Apollo (Polyhymnia) 

Emeralds (Pas de trois) 

The Four Temperaments (Melancholic) 

The Nutcracker (Sugar Plum Fairy, Dew Drop) 

Square Dance 

Tarantella 

  • CANIPAROLI

Lambarena 

  • FORSYTHE

The Second Detail 

The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude 

  • KUDELKA

Hush 

  • LIDBERG

Stream 

  • MARTINS 

Ash 

  • MROZEWSKI

The Lost Dance 

  • NEENAN

At the Border 

  • POSSOKHOV

Firebird 

Raymonda 

  • ROBBINS

The Cage 

The Concert 

  • STOWELL

Carmen  

Ekho  

A Holiday Revue  

A Midsummer’s Night Dream (Peachblossom) 

Rite of Spring 

The Sleeping Beauty (Princess Florine) 

Swan Lake (Neapolitan) 

Honors
  • Nominated for a 2010 Princess Grace Award. 
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