GRACE KOURY

Grace Koury joined Portland Ballet during the 2019/2020 season. Since joining the company, she has had the pleasure of dancing the title roles in both Giselle and Nell Shipman’s Sylvia, Persephone in Shipman’s Persephone & Hades, Dew Drop and Arabian in A Victorian Nutcracker, and The Woman in Jen Jones’ Surprised by Joy. Grace is also a faculty member of the Portland School of Ballet’s Young Dancer Program and Senior Division. Previously, she danced professionally in Georgia and New York. She is from Altoona, PA.

Before starting her professional career, she attended Indiana University Jacobs School of Music on The Dean’s Scholarship. There she had the pleasure of performing many works by renowned choreographers ranging from Antony Tudor’s Dark Elegies, Paul Taylor’s Musical Offering, George Balanchine’s Rubies, Emeralds, Western Symphony, Four Temperaments and Divertimento No. 15. As a part of Jacobs School of Music, Grace also had the opportunity to perform as a featured dancer in the operas La Traviata and The Last Savage. In May of 2016, she graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Ballet Performance and an Outside Field in Arts Management. In addition to Indiana University Ballet Theater, Grace has received dance training from Walnut Hill School for the Arts, Pacific Northwest Ballet SI, The School of American Ballet SI, Chautauqua School of Dance, and Allegheny Ballet Company.