Katita Waldo

Kathryn Cristine Waldo Grey was born on April 9, 1968, in Madrid. In 1979, when Waldo was eleven, she and her family moved to Ithaca, New York, and she continued her training at Ithaca Ballet. She also attended public school between the ages of eleven and twelve, and later recalled she was "demoralized" there. Due to her experience in public school and the desire to have better dance training, she auditioned for the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, which accepted her when she was thirteen and provided a scholarship. However, in her first year at the school, she started developing a tendinitis in her hips, which worsened during the second year and forced her to drop out. She received therapy in New York, covered by an award she received, and returned to school eight months later. In 1984, she started studying at the Washington Ballet, then in 1986, she moved to San Francisco to train at the San Francisco Ballet School. ==Career==

In 1987, she became an apprentice with the San Francisco Ballet, directed by Helgi Tomasson. The following year, she joined the company as a member of the corps de ballet. She was promoted to soloist in 1990 and principal dancer in 1997. In 2002, Waldo and fellow San Francisco Ballet dancers Long, LeBlanc, Roman Rykine and Gennadi Nedvigin won the Isadora Duncan Dance Award for Ensemble Performance, for their performances in Forsythe's The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude. She won the award again the following year with Joanna Berman and Julie Diana for Robbins' Dances at a Gathering. In 2004, 2006 and 2007, Waldo worked as ballet master and choreographer's assistant for Christopher Wheeldon and Yuri Posskhov at the Bolshoi Ballet, including for Possokhov's Magrittomania. Waldo retired from performing in 2010, after a 22-year career, making her the last dancer hired or promoted by Tomasson in late 1980s to retire. ==Personal life==

In 1989, Waldo married Marshall Crutcher, a composer. Their son was born in 1999. ==References==