Florrie Geller

Florrie Sésé Geller began her pre-professional training with 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 placed 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, Cygnet in Kirk Peterson’s Swan Lake, Virginia Woolf in Sarah Van Patten’s Skylight 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 premiere Cleopatra. She has appeared in galas including YAGP’s Stars of Today Meet the Stars of Tomorrow. In 2019, Florrie was invited to represent the United States in the Beijing International Ballet and Choreographic  Competition as a semi-finalist. Florrie danced with the Oakland Ballet in Misty Copeland’s Flower premiere gala, as well as in works by Graham Lusig, Phil Chan, Feng Ye, and Natasha Adorlee. 

Florrie has been an artist with Sacramento Ballet since 2024, and has performed Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty, Sugar Plum Fairy and Dewdrop in the Nutcracker. She also danced in Amy Hall Garner’s world premiere Within the Ordinary, and in works by Michael Pink, Young Soon Hue, Julia  Feldman, Thang Dao, Stefan Calka, George Balanchine, and the arists of Sacramento Ballet. 

Florrie is on the faculty of The School of Sacramento Ballet, and has taught on the faculties of Cincinnati Ballet’s Otto M. Budig Academy, Magaly Suarez’s The Art of Classical Ballet, and the Draper Center for Dance Education. She has been certified in the Escuela Nacional de Ballet de Cuba Methodology, Year 1, as well as various training modalities. 

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.”