Cortney is enjoying her second season with Chattanooga Ballet. She debuted with the company in works by Frank Hay and Alan Arnett for Chattanooga Dances, hosted by the Tennessee Association of Dance. She has gone on to perform soloist roles in The Nutcracker and Firebird and for outreach performances throughtout Chattanooga.
Hailing from Harlingen, Texas, Cortney began her ballet studies with Lori Read and Deborah Case. She performed in Corpus Christi Ballet’s The Nutcracer and Dracula.
She received additional training from San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, Boston Conservatory, North Carolina Dance Theatre, Virginia School of the Arts, and Ballet Austin. She has had the pleasure of working with choreographers such as Sean Curran, Robert Moses, Eloy Barragan, Jeffrey Gunshol, Tyler Walters, and Alex Ossadnik on new works. In addition she has enjoyed working on the restagings of works by Salvatore Aiello and Jirí Kylián.
Cortney holds an Honors Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ballet performance, pedagogy, and character dance from the University of Utah. While attending school she accepted her first contract to dance in the Utah Symphony and Opera production of La Rondine. As a member of the Character Dance Ensemble, she toured internationally to Vancouver, Beijing, and St. Petersburg.
Ms. Mild’s research interests include August Bournonville, choreographic copyright, and dance cross-training for athletes. She has presented in both the U.S. and abroad for prestigious organizations such as the International Association of Dance Medicine and Science, CORPS de Ballet International, and the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Conference.
In her time off, Cortney enjoys competing in triathlons, commuting by bicycle, hiking, skiing, yoga, Pilates, cooking, traveling, listening to live music, and dabbling in arts of every variety.
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