Anabel Katsnelson

Anabel Katsnelson is from New City, New York, and began dancing at the age of three. She trained at Petrov Ballet Academy before joining Houston Ballet Academy in 2014. She was a finalist at Youth America Grand Prix from 2012 to 2014 and received a YoungArts Foundation merit scholarship in 2014. That same year, she performed Swan Lake with the Suzanne Farrell Ballet at the Kennedy Center. Katsnelson attended summer intensives at Houston Ballet and American Ballet Theatre, and joined Houston Ballet II in 2015, touring nationally and internationally and performing corps de ballet roles with Houston Ballet.

Anabel joined ABT Studio Company in 2016, became an apprentice with American Ballet Theatre later that year, and was promoted to the corps de ballet in 2017. Over her eight years with ABT, she had the opportunity to work with renowned choreographers including Alexei Ratmansky, Twyla Tharp, Wayne McGregor, Christopher Wheeldon, and Natalia Makarova. Her repertory with the company included roles such as the First Shade in La Bayadère, Amour in Don Quixote, Chencha in Like Water for Chocolate, Callirhoe’s Maid in Of Love and Rage, the Fairy Canari qui chante (Canary) in The Sleeping Beauty, and the Canteen Keeper, one of the Nutcracker’s Sisters, and the Chinese Dance in The Nutcracker. She also appeared as the pas de trois, a Little Swan, and the Hungarian Princess in Swan Lake, and danced featured roles in In the Upper Room, Songs of Bukovina, A Time There Was, Dream within a Dream (deferred), and Indestructible Light.