Joined Ballet West II: 2015
Joined Ballet West: 2017
Promoted to Demi-Soloist: 2022

Kristina Pool is from Princeton, New Jersey.  She joined Ballet West II in 2015 and was promoted to the main company in 2017, and then to Demi-Soloist in 2022.  With Ballet West, Kristina has danced leading roles in Smuin’s Romeo + Juliet, LaPlane’s Galantheae, Sklute’s Giselle, Fonte’s Carmina Burana, and the role of Olga in Cranko's Onegin, among many others.

Follow Kristina on Instagram @kristina.pool.

Click below to see Kristina’s roles.

2022-23 Season

  • Onegin (Cranko) Olga
  • Concerto Barocco (Balanchine)

ON TOUR

  • Galantheae (LaPlane) – Ballet West in the Garden, Red Butte Garden Amphitheater, Salt Lake City, Utah

2021-22 Season

  • Dracula (Stevenson) Bride
  • The Nutcracker (Christensen) Maid, Doll, Spanish, Mirlitons, Waltz of the Flowers
  • Romeo + Juliet (Smuin) Capulet Harlot, Street Dancer
  • Glass Pieces (Robbins) “Rubric,” “Akhenaten”
  • Carmina Burana (Fonte)
  • Galantheae (LaPlane) Choreographic Festival (Rose Wagner Theater, Salt Lake City)

ON TOUR

  • Piece of My Heart (Fonte) – Ballet West in the Garden, Red Butte Garden Amphitheater, Salt Lake City, Utah
  • Paquita (Kunikova, after Petipa) – Ballet West in the Garden, Red Butte Garden Amphitheater, Salt Lake City, Utah
  • Romeo + Juliet (Smuin) Juliet’s Friend – George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Center, Park City, Utah

2020-21 Season

  • Tides (Archibald)
  • Precious Gems
    • Precious Jewels Variations from Aladdin (Robinson Harris and Dolkas)
    • Paquita (Kunikova after Petipa)
  • Resist Much, Obey Little (Naumann) Choreographic Festival (Rose Wagner Theater, Salt Lake City)

ON TOUR

  • Piece of My Heart (Fonte) – George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Center, Park City, Utah

2019-20 Season

  • Le Chant Du Rossingnol (Balanchine) Court Lady
  • The Nutcracker (Christensen) Maid
  • Giselle (Sklute, after Coralli and Perrot) Peasant Woman, Wilis, Giselle’s Friend

ON TOUR

  • Giselle (Sklute, after Coralli and Perrot) Wilis – The Soraya, Los Angeles, California

2018-19 Season

  • Jewels (Balanchine) Emeralds, Rubies, Diamonds
  • The Nutcracker (Christensen) Maid
  • Swan Lake (Sklute, after Petipa and Ivanov) Cygnettes, Swan Maiden, Young Friends
  • Onegin (Cranko) Neighbors

2017-18 Season

  • Serenade (Balanchine)
  • Carmina Burana (Fonte)
  • The Nutcracker (Christensen) Maid
  • Cinderella (Ashton) The Stars
  • Summerspace (Cunningham)
  • The Shakespeare Suite (Bintley) Chorus
  • Jabula (Weir) National Choreographic Festival (Rose Wagner Theater, Salt Lake City)

ON TOUR

  • Dances for Lou (Caniparoli) – Joyce Theater, New York City, New York

2016-17 Season

  • Bournonville Divertissments (Bournonville)
  • “Are We There Yet?” (Dolkas)
  • Piece of My Heart (Fonte)
  • Mobile (Ruud)
  • Madame Butterfly (Welch) Geisha
  • The Nutcracker (Christensen)
  • The Sleeping Beauty (Sklute, after Petipa) Beauty, Aurora’s Friends, Lilac Fairy Attendant
  • Chaconne (Balanchine)
  • The Green Table (Jooss)

2015-16 Season

  • The Nutcracker (Christensen)
  • Romeo and Juliet (Cranko)
  • Beauty and the Beast (Robinson-Harris and Dolkas) Beauty

Sklute's The Sleeping Beauty

Kunikova’s Paquita

Robinson-Harris and Dolkas’s Aladdin

Photos by Beau Pearson