{"id":2922,"date":"2019-01-16T01:58:10","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T01:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobballet.org\/?p=2922"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:16:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:16:28","slug":"courtney-holland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/2019\/01\/16\/courtney-holland\/","title":{"rendered":"Courtney Holland"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Courtney Holland<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>Charlotte Ballet II<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Ballet Austin (2016-present)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>O<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sFlh5c pT0Scc iPVvYb alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/dms\/image\/C4E03AQEdz-bX-3vW8A\/profile-displayphoto-shrink_200_200\/0\/1516682395468?e=2147483647&amp;v=beta&amp;t=q7jDsJsrkwGQO3fNS2_MMqdXpp-DMEuYK8sArhYGUgg\" alt=\"Courtney Holland - Company Member - Charlotte Ballet | LinkedIn\" aria-hidden=\"false\" \/>riginally from Toronto, Canada, Courtney began her professional training at age 11 at Canada\u2019s National Ballet School and graduated in 2010. She continued training at the Dance Theatre of Harlem. In 2012, she was a finalist at Valentina Kozlova International Ballet Competition. She received a scholarship to the Banff Centre\u2019s Professional Dance Program and appeared as a guest artist in the Arts Summer Festival performing George Balanchine\u2019s\u00a0<em>Concerto Barocco<\/em>\u00a0and Christopher Wheeldon\u2019s\u00a0<em>Souvenirs<\/em>. In 2013, Courtney joined Charlotte Ballet II where she performed works by George Balanchine, Dwight Rhoden, Sasha Janes, Mark Diamond and Jean- Pierre Bonnefoux, and was featured in\u00a0<em>The Nutcracker<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Cinderella<\/em>\u00a0(<em>The Autumn Fairy<\/em>), directed by Kennedy Center Honoree Patricia McBride. At Ballet Austin, Courtney has danced works by Stephen Mills, Septime Webre, Pam Tanowitz and Annabelle Lopez Ochoa. She enjoyed performing Justin Peck\u2019s\u00a0<em>In Creases<\/em>, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa\u2019s\u00a0<em>A deux<\/em>\u00a0and was featured in Paul Vasterling\u2019s\u00a0<em>Peter Pan<\/em>\u00a0as\u00a0<em>\u2018Tinker Belle\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Av2n0XqCMAINHwY-230x288-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5892 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Av2n0XqCMAINHwY-230x288-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/balletaustin.org\/about\/ballet-austin-company-dancers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dancers, Ballet Austin<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>See also:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sightlinesmag.org\/dance-review-ballet-austins-taming-of-the-shrew\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dance review: Ballet Austin\u2019s \u2018Taming of the Shrew\u2019, Sightlines<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Video links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"title style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-nitzLIDM5c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A special NUTCRACKER delivery for you!<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lSwCrI_n6Hc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ballet Portraits: Courtney Holland in Austin, TX<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Social media:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"st\">Instagram <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/accordin2court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@accordin2court<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nLinkedIn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/courtney-holland-0855b679\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Courtney Holland<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lSwCrI_n6Hc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtney Holland Charlotte Ballet II Ballet Austin (2016-present) Originally from Toronto, Canada, Courtney began her professional training at age 11 at Canada\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dancers"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2922"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19732,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2922\/revisions\/19732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobballet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}