C. Round Ballet Works

Join us for our 4th Anti Recital for Grownups Performance entitled“The Sisters of Spring”. This is a celebration of Spring and all the sisterly love that our CRBW cast invokes.

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Friday, March 20th 7:30pm
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Saturday, March 21st 7:30pm
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MEET JENNIFER ROCHOLL…

This wonderfully successful commercial photographer is a ballet natural. Jennifer’s love of ballet started in college, and while life can take you in different directions, ballet has always beckoned her back. She dove back into ballet in 2017 and has never looked back.

What attracts you to ballet and what do you find hardest about ballet?
I love the mediative process of ballet. Life, business, and family can be so much, and it’s ballet that gives me focus. After dancing for almost seven years, i feel I’ve evolved as a human. I see what’s possible. I’m addicted to the progress, as working at technique demands presence.

Ballet is hard in that it’s difficult to make shapes that your body doesn’t naturally want to do. I do regret not starting ballet sooner. People don’t know how much strength, coordination, and grace it takes when working on technique.

What is your favorite ballet? Who is your favorite ballet dancer?
I love the color palette of “Giselle”. It’s beautiful and misty. The ethereal “floatiness” of it. HAHA!

Marianella Nunez is everything in one package. Joy emanates from her entire being. Her technique and her emotion are so effortless. The maturity in Marinella’s dancing shows a life well lived.

What do you love and not love about performing?
I like that performing gets me out of my comfort zone, but I don’t like being the center of attention. I love that this process helps make me grow.

Do you find any similarities between photography and ballet?
I love seeing shapes, making shapes, and perfecting shapes. It’s so exciting to watch a dancer use their body to tell a story. Working on ballet technique has helped me be a better collaborator with my subjects to create these shapes and lines in my own photography.

Jennifer is performing on Friday, December 1st & Saturday, December 2nd at Lineage Performing Arts Center in Pasadena, CA. ALL SHOWS SOLD OUT!

MEET SUSAN MASTERMAN…

From Massachusetts to Oklahoma to California, Susan Masterman has danced her way across the country. In the beginning, being a beautiful 5’9”, 100 pound 9th grader, and after watching a thousand “Nutcrackers”, she thought she would give this ballet thing a try. Susan now owns a very successful Architectural firm in South Pasadena, and has never let ballet and performing go by the wayside.

What attracts you to ballet and what do you find hardest about ballet?

I like being told what to do! HAHA! I like rules; to follow rules. I need a set of parameters.

I love the music! I love that when I take class, everyday life disappears and I’m obsessed with where my elbow is placed. i love knowing where my body is at all times.

The hardest part of ballet is the aging body. What came so easily before is harder now. My advice is to never stop dancing or it’s harder to get back into it.

What is your favorite ballet? Who is your favorite ballet dancer?

“Pas de Quatre”. This was the first ballet I performed in the 10th grade, and again for a CRBW benefit for California Hospital Medical Center. I love romantic ballets. I also love Jerome Robbins’, “The Concert”, with music by Chopin. The love that humor can be found in a ballet.

Like many others, I can just pick one favorite ballet dancer. I love Uliana Lopatkina. She is tall, long and beautiful. She is a true swan. I also love Sylvie Guilleme. She is fierce.

What do you love and not love about performing?

I think what most people don’t understand is how to make ballet look so effortless, while putting forth the most effort.

Having performed off and on most of my life, I have to say I love rehearsal. I love the getting ready - the process. I love the community spirit and doing it for ourselves. I love saying, “Oh, I’m sorry, I can’t, I have rehearsal.”

Do you find any similarities between architecture and ballet?

I am a visual learner. I live for structure and composition, so it’s really not a surprise my love for architecture and ballet are inextricably linked.


Susan is performing at Lineage Performing Arts Center on Friday, December 1st, & Saturday, December 2nd, at 7:30pm in Pasadena, CA. SOLD OUT - ALL SHOWS!