Rob Reinhagen
Artistic Staff
Growing up in a family deeply involved in the performing arts, Rob Reinhagen began his performing experience at a very young age, doing his first musical when he was 7. At the age of 18, after training with the Riverside Ballet, he left California on scholarship to train with Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School. He later attended the Boston Ballet School and The Ailey School in New York City both on full scholarship. While attending the Ailey School Fellowship Program, Rob expanded his repertoire to include modern dance and jazz. Rob has trained with Marianne Tcherkassy, Roberto Munoz, Terrence Orr, David Holladay, Franco DeVita, Raymond Lukens, Ana Marie Forsythe, and Peter O’Brien. He has performed professionally with both Boston Ballet and Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, most notably in Giselle, Serenade, Jewels, Western Symphony, Raymonda, Cinderella, and The Nutcracker. He also performed in Ben Stevenson’s Cleopatra and in Ken Stowell’s Carmina Burana.
Rob has been teaching ballet, modern, and jazz dance for the past 15 years. Students that Rob has classically trained have been accepted to some of the finest dance programs in the country; Boston Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem, School of American Ballet, American Ballet Theatre School, San Francisco Ballet School, Pacific North West Ballet School, the Rock School and Ballet West. His students have also won major dance competitions in both jazz and modern and he has received numerous awards for his choreography. His use of ballet as a foundational skill helps strengthen dancers for these modern dance disciplines while improving their overall dance performance.
In addition to dance, Rob has a deep-rooted passion for musical theater. Nunsense, Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Taffetas, Little Shop of Horrors, The Swing’n Nutcracker, Cinderella, and Coppelia are among a few of the many shows he has choreographed and directed.