Salomé Tregre began training at the Cincinnati Ballet Academy at the age of three. In 2017, Salomé had the privilege of being the first African American to dance the role of Clara in the Cincinnati Ballet’s 50-year history of The Nutcracker.
Salomé is the 2018-19 recipient of the Blanche Frisch Maier Memorial Scholarship, a 2020 Cincinnati Overture Awards semifinalist, and the 2020 YAGP – Pittsburgh Third Place Award recipient for her Giselle variation. Salomé has undergone summer training at the Cincinnati Ballet,
Kansas City Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, and San Francisco Ballet. In 2023 she was recommended by Jodi Gates and attended the Jacob’s Pillow Contemporary Ballet Summer Program under Annabelle
Lopez Ochoa. Most recently, Salomé traveled to Italy to take part in Alice Klock and Florian Lochner’s FLOCK Partnering and Creation Intensive at Orsolina28.
Salomé joined the Cincinnati Ballet’s Professional Training
Division as a PTD on partial scholarship for the 2021-22 season, while also completing her senior year at Walnut Hills High School. She was promoted to Trainee on full scholarship for the 2022-23 Season. Salomé joined the Cincinnati Ballet’s Second Company in January 2023. Her most notable moments as a Second Company dancer include performing in George Balanchine’s Jewels, Anna-Marie Holmes’ Don Quixote, and two opposing principle roles in Cincinnati Ballet’s Family Series: The Little Mermaid. Salomé has been promoted to the Company as an Apprentice for the 2024-25 season. She is ecstatic to have this opportunity.
