trisha carter

Ballerina — Executive Leader — Arts Supporter

Performing Artist

With a background that boasts a strong classical pedigree, Trisha is seeking to expand her repertoire to include more challenging work outside of her comfort zone. She began her training in Maine with Bossov Ballet Theater and continued training abroad under the instruction of Alla Sizova, Dimitri Simkin, Irina Trofimova Golovkina, Natalia Papinashvilli, and Vadim Pisarev, ultimately leading to her acceptance into the Vaganova School in St. Petersburg, Russia. Trisha began her career with Houston Ballet after completing her schooling at the Harid Conservatory and Kirov Academy. Trisha’s performance career has included stages all over the world with companies of the likes of Boulder Ballet, Cleveland Ballet, Houston Ballet, and Dimensions Dance Theatre of Miami, among others. Now a leading artist with Ballet Counterpointe, Trisha is actively seeking freelance opportunities that broaden her artistic experience

Strategic Leadership — Nonprofit Financial Consulting

With a mission of transforming financial sustainability for nonprofit performing arts organizations, Trisha pursued higher education beyond her performance experience. Along with her degrees in International Business & Trade and International Economics, Trisha boasts an extensive 10+ year history of founding, leading, and guiding organizations of varying sizes from smaller nonprofits to larger corporate firms.

Her varied background is her source of strength when seeking innovative solutions to evolving problems like audience development, board engagement, and financial planning. Trisha is an action-oriented, engaging leader who specializes in business development, data analysis, and nonprofit wealth management.

Repetiteur — Rehearsal Director — Coach

Dance is inherited body-to-body and Trisha embodies this philosophy with her passion for sharing knowledge and expertise. Whether she is teaching, staging, or rehearsing, Trisha seeks to work from a place of coaching forth results, versus exacting performance under pressure. She teaches regularly at universities from coast to coast, like Anderson Anderson and Belhaven, as well as ballet schools and conventions from Florida to California. Success is more rewarding when it is shared and this is the driving force for Trisha’s studio style.

Trisha has staged most of Kevin Jenkins’ major works including Still Waters, Chaplin, C’est la Vie, Falling Light, Farewell My Lovely, Whiplash, Pastoral Symphony, Fortissimo, Duo Voz, and Light in the Mist, among others. She has also been integral to the creation process of newer works like Legacy, Try To Remember, and a large body of phrase material. While more commonly found in the studio alongside Kevin, Trisha has worked on his behalf with: State Street Ballet, Joffrey Ballet School, Indiana University, COCA St. Louis, Ballet Hartford, Belhaven University, Briarwood Ballet, Anderson University, Brenau University, Studio R Ballet, and Goucher College, among others.