The Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University

Christine Buttorff began her early training at the Jan Collum School of Classical Ballet in Tacoma, Washington, with Jan Collum and Erin Ceragioli.  In 2001, Ms. Buttorff graduated from Santa Clara University with a BS in Political Science and a BA in Italian.  While attending college in the San Francisco Bay Area, Christine trained at the school of Ballet San Jose Silicon Valley under the direction of Donna Delseni, Gonzalo Espinoza and artistic director Dennis Nahat.  Ms. Buttorff joined Nashville Ballet in 2002.  Her roles included Myrta in Giselle, the stepmother Paul Vasterling’s Lizzie Borden and Choleric in George Balanchine’s The Four Temperaments.  She also debuted the role of the Roasted Swan in Vasterling’s production of Carmina Burana last spring.  Christine left Nashville Ballet last fall to begin work on a doctorate in health economics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Photo Courtesy of the Nashville Ballet