Princeton Youth Ballet

Risa Gary Kaplowitz is a former principal dancer with Dayton Ballet and a former member of Houston Ballet and Ballet Manhattan. She has also performed with Pennsylvania Ballet and Metropolitan Opera Ballet and as a guest artist with many companies nationwide. She has performed the repertoire of many choreographers including Fredrick Ashton, George Balanchine, Ben Stevenson, Stuart Sebastian, Dermot Burke, Billy Wilson, and Marjorie Mussman. After spending ten years in a successful business career, Ms. Kaplowitz returned to the dance world and founded Princeton Dance and Theater Studio (PDT) and DanceVision, Inc., (now Princeton Youth Ballet), with Susan Jaffe, a former principal ballerina with American Ballet Theatre. During her period of leadership, she founded D.A.N.C.E. (Dance As a Necessary Component of Education), an outreach program that brings dance to New Jersey schools. Ms.