ABOUT US
ARTISTIC DIRECTION
Photo John Hall Margret was born and grew up in New York City where she studied dance at the new Dance Group Studio, the Metropolitan Opera Ballet School and the American Dance Center. Her principal ballet teachers were Celine Keller, Margaret Craske and Alfredo Corvino. She also studied with Hector Zaraspe, Françoise Martinet and Robert Joffrey. As a dancer, her first professional engagements were with the Maryland Ballet in Baltimore and at Radio City Music Hall in New York. She then went on to dance with several ballet companies in Germany, with the Finnish National Ballet in Helsinki and with the Cullberg Ballet in Stockholm, Sweden. After finishing her dance career in 1987, Margret studied the Benesh Movement Notation System in London, England, receiving her choreologist's diploma in 1989. Between 1989 and 1996 she was ballet mistress and choreologist with the Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève in Geneva Switzerland. She then went on to commercial studies in Geneva, receiving an executive assistant's diploma in 1997. From 1998 to 2000 she worked in New York City as personal assistant to the Artistic Director at American Ballet Theatre.
Margret has been working with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal since March 2001. In rehearsal as ballet mistress her tasks are to assist the choreographers and to function as rehersal director, notably for the repertory of Jirì Kylián and Mats Ek, both of whom she has worked with in the past. She was also assistant to the choreographer Kim Brandstrup during the creation of the ballet The Queen of Spades in 2001.
