Paul Destrooper

Zodiac Sign:
Cancer

Favorite Role:
Armand in Val Caniparolli's Lady of the Camellias

Guilty pleasure:
Chocolate

Favorite quote:
Shut up and dance

First professional live show you ever saw:
A royal Winnipeg Ballet program with Jacques Lemay's Big Top.

First season as the Artistic Director of Ballet Victoria:
2007/2008

Andrea Robin Bayne

Zodiac Sign:
Leo

Favorite Role:
I honestly could not choose a favortite role. One thing I am sure of, is that it is the roles which test you the most that are the most exciting to perform!

Guilty pleasure:
Singing showtunes at the top of my lungs.

Favorite quote:
"What is once well done is done forever. When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target."

First professional live show you ever saw:
Deuce Coupe!

First season with Ballet Victoria:
2007/2008

Christie Wood

Zodiac Sign:
Aries

Favorite Role:
Paul Destroopers, "Carmina Burana", and
"Wish you here", Sandrine Cassini

Guilty pleasure:
Candy

Favorite quote:
"Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results." - Albert Einstein

First professional live show you ever saw:
A Christmas Carol

First season with Ballet Victoria:
2007/2008

Amanda Radetzky

Zodiac Sign:
Aries

Favorite Role:
Paul Destroopers, "Carmina Burana"

Guilty pleasure:
Ice Cream

Favorite quote:
"I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy.
I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all."
- Leo Rosten

First professional live show you ever saw:
Riverdance

First season with Ballet Victoria:
2009/2010

Geoff Malcolm

Zodiac Sign:
Scorpio

Favorite role:
Destrooper's Carmina Burana. Bruce Monk's Closing time. Sandrine Cassini's Wish You Were Here

Guilty pleasure:
Watching Survivor (Love it!)

Favorite quote:
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of
creative effort." - Franklin Roosevelt

First professional live show you ever saw:
The first Canadian tour of Phantom of the Opera

First season with Ballet Victoria:
2007/2008

Matthew Cluff

Zodiac Sign:
Aries

Favorite Role:
Russian - "The Nutcracker"

Guilty pleasure:
Chocolate

Favorite quote:
"Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't"
- Jerry Rice

First professional live show you ever saw:
Giselle

First season with Ballet Victoria:
2013/2014

Risa Kobayashi - Guest Artist

Zodiac Sign:
Gemini

Favorite quotes:
"If you can't, you must. If you must, you can."
"Fortune comes in by a merry gate."

First professional live show you ever saw:
Don Quixote

First season with Ballet Victoria:
2009/2010

Bethany Le Corre

Zodiac Sign:
Leo

Guilty pleasure
Protein bars...secretly addicted

Favorite quote:
If you want your dreams to come true do not sleep!

First professional live show you ever saw:
Beauty and The Beast - Royal Winnipeg Ballet

First season with Ballet Victoria:
2012-2013

Parisa Mehregan

Zodiac Sign:
Capricorn

Favourite role:
Chinese in PNB's Nutcracker

Guilty pleasure
Cheeseburgers

Favourite quote:
"There are far, far better things ahead than we leave behind."
CS Lewis

First professional live show you ever saw:
Nutcracker ifrom Alberta Ballet

First season with Ballet Victoria:
2012-13

Ian Szkolak

Zodiac Sign:
Taurus

Favourite role:
Golden Idol from La Bayadere and Le Corsaire

Guilty pleasure:
Chocolate

Favourite quote:
"Don't look to become a person of success - look instead to become a person of value"

First professional live show you ever saw:
Glen Tetley's Rite of Spring

First season with Ballet Victoria:
2012-13