Kate Highstrete Promoted to Soloist

Kate Highstrete has been promoted to Soloist at Los Angeles Ballet. Kate is from Huntington Beach, California and danced with St. Louis Ballet before joining LAB in 2009. Of her 2011 performance in Giselle, the LA Times said, "Kate Highstrete made Myrtha, the Queen of the Wilis, an other-worldly creature of pitiless steel." Kate has also been featured as the Choleric soloist in Balanchine's The Four Temperaments, The Rose in The Nutcracker, and the Golden Vine Fairy in The Sleeping Beauty, as well as in multiple original works by Sonya Tayeh. The 2015/2016 Season will be Kate's 7th season with Los Angeles Ballet.