Garrett Anderson-Ballet Idaho

Garrett received training on full scholarship with some of the country’s premier academies, including Contra Costa Ballet Centre, San Francisco Ballet School, American Ballet Theatre and Pacific Northwest Ballet. Following this, he danced with The San Francisco Ballet, Royal Ballet of Flanders, Trey McIntyre Project, and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. Over the course of a 20 year professional career in both classical ballet and contemporary dance companies, Garrett worked with some of the world’s most celebrated choreographers and directors performing the works of Forsythe, Kylían, Morris, Wheeldon, Ek, Duato, Naharin, Robbins, Balanchine, Tharp, Cerrudo, McIntyre, Rowe, and many more in theaters around the world.

Following his full time performing career, Garrett became Chair of the Dance Dept. at New Mexico School for the Arts. After two years with this institution he moved to Boise to become the Artistic Director of Ballet Idaho. Garrett was the recipient of the American Ballet Theatre national dance scholarship and holds a B.A. with honors from St. Mary’s college of California. He has been on guest faculty of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Civic Ballet of Chicago, Ballet Chicago and Francisco Gella Danceworks, served as a adjudicator and panelist for the ADC IBC ballet competition in addition to his teaching and department leadership at NMSA.

Over the last six years as Artistic Director, Garrett has provided oversight for the Ballet Idaho Academy, created the Ballet Idaho Trainee Program and has served as Interim Executive Director since July of 2023. During his tenure Garrett has choreographed five repertory works for the company, and in 2023, co -choreographed an original production of Swan Lake with Anne Mueller. DANCE TRAINING Contra Costa Ballet School San Francisco Ballet School American Ballet Theatre School Pacific Northwest Ballet School PROFESSIONAL PERFORMING EXPERIENCE Pacific Northwest Ballet (professional division 1998-2000) San Francisco Ballet (corps de ballet 2000-2005, soloist 2005-2008) Royal Ballet of Flanders (first soloist 2008-2011 Trey McIntyre Project (2011) Hubbard Street Dance Chicago (2011-2016) Sf DanceWorks (2016-2018) LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE New Mexico School for the Arts (Dance Chair 2016-2018) Ballet Idaho Artistic Director 2018-present Interim Executive Director July 2023- present CHOREOGRAPHY Suite For Three,- 2016 NMSA Vivaldi- 2016 NMSA Rekasius- 2017-NMSA Unaccompanied – 2018 Ballet Idaho (Gala) Small Things First- 2018 Ballet Idaho Moments Musicaux- 2021 Ballet Idaho Seen/Unseen- 2022 Ballet Idaho Swan Lake (co-choreographed with Anne Mueller) 2023 Ballet Idaho Congruence for 2023.24 season (co-choreographed with Anne Mueller) Giselle Act 2 (co-choreographed with Anne Mueller)