Ballet Instructor Kelly Lee Roberts

CLASSES TAUGHT: Ballet / Ballet Performance

WITH PPAC FOR: 10 years

Kelly Lee Roberts has been teaching in the ballet department at PPAC since 2001. She was trained under scholarship at the prestigious schools of Milwaukee Ballet, Joffrey Ballet School, School of American Ballet as well as American Ballet Theater School. Mrs. Roberts performed in Milwaukee Ballet, toured extensively with American Festival Ballet, danced with Arizona Dance Theater and a long stretch at Ballet Arizona from 1983-1993 under direction of Jean Paul Comelin.

Her professional dance credits include all of the classics such as Swan Lake, Raymonda, Coppelia, Firebird, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Napoli, Who Cares, Valse Fantasie, Carmina Burana, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Tarentella, Don Quixote and over 450 performances of the Nutcracker!

Mrs. Roberts retired from the stage in 1993. She has taught at many of the valley’s fine ballet institutes over the years including ASU Dance Department and Ballet Arizona.
Kelly Roberts enjoys teaching the art of ballet to all of her students as well as choreographing at PPAC. Mrs. Roberts’ and Mrs. Schwartz have collaborated on many of the ballet classics. Past performances have been The Little Match Girl, Clara’s Dream, Phantom of the Opera, Peter and the Wolf, Alice in Wonderland and Clara’s Birthday Ballet to name a few.

 Mrs. Roberts’ husband Ed and her two children Sabrina and Holly frequent the studio on a regular basis.