2025-2026 Season Guest Artists
The Nutcracker
Joo Won Ahn
Joo Won Ahn has generously stepped in at short notice to dance the role of The Cavalier, originally from Wonju, Korea, he began his formal training in 2006 at Y.J. Ballet People Academy and Sun Hwa Art School. In 2012, he became a student at Korea National University of Arts in Seoul where his performance credits include Marius Petipa’s The Sleeping Beauty, Paquita, Raymonda, La Bayadère, and Don Quixote. Ahn won the Silver Medal at the Korean International Ballet Competition and 3rd Prize at the 2012 Varna International Ballet Competition in Bulgaria. Ahn was invited to join ABT Studio Company in 2013 after winning the Gold Medal at Youth America Grand Prix in New York City.
Ahn joined ABT as an apprentice in January 2014 and the corps de ballet in June 2014. He was promoted to Soloist in September 2019 and to Principal Dancer in September 2020. His repertoire with the Company includes the title role in Apollo, Solor in La Bayadère, a Cavalier in Cinderella, Ali, the slave and Lankendem in Le Corsaire, Depuis le Jour, Basilio in Don Quixote, Albrecht in Giselle, Persian Man in The Golden Cockerel, The Leaves Are Fading pas de deux, Pedro in Like Water for Chocolate, the Nutcracker Prince, Arabian Man, Russian Dance, and Spanish Dance in Alexei Ratmansky’s The Nutcracker, Dionysius in Of Love and Rage, Lensky in Onegin, Other Dances, Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet, Winter and Zephyr in The Seasons, Bluebird, the Italian Prince, and a Fairy Cavalier in Ratmansky’s The Sleeping Beauty, Prince Siegfried, von Rothbart, and the Neapolitan Dance in Swan Lake, Aminta in Sylvia, Peter and “Tuesday” in Woolf Works, leading roles in AFTERITE, The Brahms-Haydn Variations, Études, Garden Blue, Serenade after Plato’s Symposium, Theme and Variations, and Thirteen Diversions, and featured roles in AfterEffect, Bach Partita, In the Upper Room, Petite Mort, and Sinfonietta.
Chloe Misseldine
Chloe Misseldine began her classical training at Orlando Ballet School. She attended ABT Summer Intensives in Orange County, California, and New York City as a National Training Scholar from 2016–2018. In 2016, she performed a traditional Chinese fan dance called Mo Li Hua in the CCTV New Year’s Gala known as the Beijing Spring Festival Gala (Chunwan), broadcast to over 700 million viewers. At age 15, Misseldine earned second place in the 2017 Youth America Grand Prix New York City Finals and performed at the YAGP “Stars of Today Meet the Stars of Tomorrow” Gala. In 2018, she was named a finalist at the Prix de Lausanne and joined American Ballet Theatre Studio Company.
Misseldine became an apprentice with American Ballet Theatre in December 2019 and joined the corps de ballet in September 2021. She was promoted to Soloist in September 2022 and to Principal Dancer in July 2024. Her repertoire includes a Flower Girl in Don Quixote, Giselle and Myrta in Giselle, Rosaura in Like Water for Chocolate, Night Falls, Clara, the Princess, one of the Nutcracker’s Sisters, and the Spanish dance in Alexei Ratmansky’s The Nutcracker, Queen of Babylon in Of Love and Rage, Tatiana in Onegin, Rosaline and Lady Montague in Romeo and Juliet, Ice in The Seasons, Odette/Odile, the pas de trois, and a big swan in Swan Lake, Sylvia in Sylvia, Sylvia Pas de Deux, Perdita in The Winter’s Tale, “Becomings” in Woolf Works, leading roles in Ballet Imperial and La Boutique, and featured roles in Bernstein in a Bubble, La Follia Variations, Petite Mort, and Songs of Bukovina.
Weaver Rhodes
Weaver Rhodes was born and raised in Texas, where he received his training from the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. He then went on to receive his BFA in Dance from SUNY Purchase in 2012. He has worked for various companies including Dance Heginbotham, The Mark Morris Dance Group, Mettin Movement Collective, Kevin Wynn Collection, The Metropolitan Classical Ballet in Arlington, TX, Northwest Dance Project, and was featured in Isaac Mizrahi’s The Magic Flute. Weaver has had the pleasure to work with artists such as Kathryn Alter, Robert Battle, Patrick Corbin, Greg Dolbashian, Larry Keigwin, Jessica Lang, Dwight Rhoden, Kate Skarpetowska, and Pam Tanowitz. Weaver has been a company member with Bruce Wood Dance since 2019.
Elliott Ludovic Trahan
Elliott Ludovic Trahan is from Lafayette, Louisiana. They graduated from the University of Arizona with a BFA in Dance in 2019. Elliott also studied with River North Dance Chicago and San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, and has performed at national and international dance festivals, including the Kiel International Festival for Dance in Germany and the Bolzano Dansa International Dance Festival in Italy. They have choreographed and performed new works for various other dance festivals, including Breaking Ground Contemporary Dance Festival and Agora Artists’ Seeds program. Elliott has performed works by Twyla Tharp, Joy Bollinger, and Omar Román de Jesús, among others. Their passion for visual art keeps them invested in the arts, and inspired by creativity, innovation, and passion. Elliott joined Bruce Wood Dance Dallas in August of 2019.