Florrie Geller

Florrie Sésé Geller began her pre-professional training with the legendary Marcia Dale Weary and the faculty of Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet. She continued her education at Next Generation Ballet with Ivonne Lemus and directors Peter Stark and Philip Neal, as well as summer programs at the School of American Ballet and San Francisco Ballet school on full tuition scholarships. Florrie won the gold medal at the Youth America Grand Prix Semi-Finals, and distinguished herself by placing in the Top 12 Junior Women in the Final Round of YAGP at Lincoln Center where she was selected by Susan Jaffe and Gillian Murphy as the first recipient of the Gillian Murphy Endowed Scholarship to UNCSA. After performing Aurora and Giselle in Next Generation Ballet’s full-length productions, Florrie completed her pre-professional training at San Francisco
Ballet school on full scholarship.

At the age of eighteen Florrie was offered a professional contract with Cincinnati Ballet’s main company where she performed Princess Florine in Devon Carney’s The Sleeping Beauty, the solo role in Jiri Kylian’s Sechs Tanze, Virginia Woolf in Sarah Van Patten’s Skylight, Cygnet in Kirk Peterson’s Swan Lake, and a soloist role in Myles Thatcher’s Anomaly. Florrie also danced in ballets by Adam Hougland, Victoria Morgan and Septime Webre.

Florrie performed the Black Swan pas de deux from Swan Lake with Rochester City Ballet, and originated the role of Arsinoe in Terpsicorps Theatre of Dance’s world premier Cleopatra. She has appeared in galas including YAGP’s Stars of Today Meet the Stars of Tomorrow and was invited to represent the United States in the Beijing International Ballet and Choreographic Competition in 2019.

As an artist with Oakland Ballet Company she danced in the premiere gala of Misty Copeland’s short film Flower and performed works by Graham Lusting, Phil Chan, Feng Ye, and Natasha Adorlee.

Florrie is a certified instructor in various training modalities including Progressing Ballet Technique and mat Pilates. She has taught ballet on the faculties of Cincinnati Ballet, M. Budig Academy, Magaly Suarez’s The Art of Classical Ballet, and the Draper Center for Dance Education and has been certified in the Escuela Nacional de Ballet de Cuba Methodology, Year 1.
Florrie has been featured in Dance Spirit Magazine’s “Dancer You Should Know,” the podcasts Becoming Ballet, Dancer Talks, and most recently Dance Magazine’s “Pack it Up.”