Jimena Flores Sánchez was born in Cuidad Obregon, Mexico. She trained under the direction of Paul Mejia, Maria Terezia Balogh and Lisa Slagle. In 2015, she trained on scholarship at Pacific Northwest Ballet Professional Division where she danced for two years under the direction of Peter Boal. She also received the Dance Council of North Texas Dr. Dan Pickard & Rosie Kimple Scholarship in 2015. While at PNB, she performed in the company productions of Balanchine’s The Nutcracker, Coppelia, West Side Story, and Symphony in C. In PNB’s school productions, she danced leading roles in Le Corsaire, and Hansel and Gretel as well as being featured in soloist roles for PNB’s Next Step program with works by Kyle Davis, Ezra Thomson, Sarah Pasch Thomson, Angeli Mamon, Dammiel Cruz, and Margaret Mullin. In 2017, Jimena joined Oklahoma City Ballet’s Studio Company under the direction of Robert Mills, where she performed company productions of Firebird, Rodeo, Swan Lake, Nutcracker, and The Little Mermaid.
Étoile Spotlight – September
September 6, 2019
Victoria and Cincinnati Ballet Take National Stage for Gender Equity A dancer’s transformation into choreographer is a deeply personal journey. For Cincinnati Ballet Artistic Director Victoria Morgan, it started at a friend’s birthday party. “It was a fluke,” Morgan recalls. “While I was a dancer with the San Francisco Ballet, we decided to do choreography […]
