Emily Mistretta

Joined KCB in 2016

Company member Emily Mistretta began her training at Inland Pacific Ballet Academy in native Montclair, California. In 2005, Ms. Mistretta joined Boston Ballet School on scholarship and in 2006, she joined Boston Ballet II. She was promoted to Corps de Ballet in 2008. After a 10 year career with Boston Ballet, Ms. Mistretta joined Kansas City Ballet in 2016. Throughout her career with both Boston Ballet and Kansas City Ballet, she has danced leading roles in works by Jiří Kylián, George Balanchine, Val Caniparoli, Alexander Ekman, Ohad Naharin, Jorma Elo, Jerome Robbins, and William Forsythe.  Some of her more recent leading roles include dancing the part of Giselle in Giselle, Marguerite in Lady of the Camellias, Nellie in Jekyll and Hyde, Emeralds Principal in Jewels, Waltz Girl in Serenade, Mina in Dracula, and Isabel in In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated. Some of the classical and contemporary ballets in which Ms. Mistretta has been featured include Bella Figura, Wings of Wax, Tar and Feathers, Symphony of Psalms, Petit Mort, La Bayadère, The Sleeping Beauty, The Concert, Symphony in C, Coppélia, Episodes, Divertimento No. 15, Symphony in Three Movements, Les Sylphides, Antique Epigraphs, Wunderland, The Lottery, Cacti, Petal, and In the Upper Room.