Christina Fagundes Turner, a native of California, received her training at the San Francisco Ballet S
chool and represented the school at the 1982 International Ballet Competition as a top finalist. She was then invited to join San Francisco Ballet and immediately began dancing leading roles. In 1985, Mikhail Baryshnikov invited Ms. Fagundes to join American Ballet Theater, where she was appointed Soloist in 1989 and danced numerous principal roles in both classic
al and contemporary repertoire. During her career, she danced in over 100 ballets, toured in over 25 countries, and worked with the geniuses of the dance world: Tudor, Macmillan, Makarova, Lubovitch, Kolpakova, Farrell, and Baryshnikov.
While dancing professionally, she also furthered her education, graduating magna cum laude from Fordham University. After choreographing, teaching, and directing for Fairfield County’s esteemed Ballet Etudes dance studio for 16 years, Christina has continued to embrace the honor of teaching in her personal studio, Ballet Studio 229 in New Canaan, where she coaches students and professionals to achieve their potential and meet their goals.
Seeing her dancers performing with ABT Studio Company, New York City Ballet, Boston Ballet, Arizona Ballet, Boulder Ballet, Smuin Ballet, Washington Ballet, as well as celebrating her students’ acceptances at top colleges—Harvard, Duke, Wake Forest, Georgetown, USC, University of Michigan, Pace, Elon, Fordham, Syracuse University, Columbia, and many more—brings Christina profound joy.
