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AYB Faculty
*Founding Director /
Resident Choreographer
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 David Herriott received his early intensive training at the Harkness Ballet School under David Howard. He danced professionally with Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet and North Carolina Dance Theatre, touring internationally with both companies. During that time he worked with such noted choreographers as Agnes de Mille, John Neumeier, Norbert Vesak, and Elliot Feld and performed with internationally renowned dancers Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gelsey Kirkland, Galina & Valerie Panov, and Evelyn Hart.
Mr. Herriott taught dance at Santa Monica College in California before moving to Huntsville, Alabama where over 12 years he held the positions of General Manager, Associate Director and Artistic Director of Community Ballet Association and Huntsville Ballet Company. Under his direction the company became a performing member of SERBA. He served on grant panels and long range planning for the Alabama State Council on the Arts, served on the Executive Board of the Alabama Dance Council and on the planning committee of the Alabama Dance Summit, as well as serving as chair of The Arts Council Assembly and along with Mary Halverstadt, developed a dance video for the Arts Council’s Art in a Box education program.
Since June of 2004, Mr. Herriott has been coordinator of the ballet program at Columbus State University Continuing Education Division located in Columbus, Georgia and Executive and Artistic Director of The Columbus Ballet.
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