Corps de Ballet
Kingston, MA
Joined Boston Ballet II in 2011
Lauren Herfindahl studied at Boston Ballet School for seven years prior to joining Boston Ballet II in 2011 and the Corps de Ballet in 2013. As a student she was the recipient of the Tatiana Gardner Scholarship and, in her final two years, was named the Mikko Nissinen Artist Scholar.
Herfindahl trained at numerous summer programs on scholarship, including the School of American Ballet, National Ballet School of Canada and Boston Ballet's Summer Dance Program. She also trained with the Chautauqua Dance Program and at Suzanne Ferrell's Cedar Island Program. In June 2012, Herfindahl was awarded the silver medal at the Boston International Ballet Competition in the Junior Division. Also in 2012, Herfindahl was invited to dance as part of the Professional Dance program at the Banff Centre for the Arts where she appeared in the lead role in George Balanchine's Concerto Barocco.
Her repertoire includes Clara as well as multiple other roles in Mikko Nissinen's The Nutcracker, Balanchine's Symphony in 3 Movements, Symphony in C, Serenade, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Coppélia, Valse Fantasie, and the lead role in Raymonda Variations, John Cranko's Romeo and Juliet, Michel Fokine's Les Sylphide, Harald Lander's Études, Florence Clerc's La Bayadere, Rudolf Nureyev's Don Quixote, and Marius Petipa's The Sleeping Beauty.
