DIRECTOR
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Eric Ragan, Director of Long Island City School of Ballet, trained at Dallas Ballet Academy, North Texas
State University, Kilgore College, Dallas Civic Ballet, and Natalia Krassovska School of Ballet. In 1988 he
was handpicked by the great Fredrick Franklin of the Ballet Russe De Monte Carlo to dance the role of
Johnny in Ruth Page Center’s Frankie and Johnny. It was the start of an impressive career that has included
recurrent roles in Paul Sutherland’s setting of Agnes de Mille’s Rodeo and lead roles with the Tulsa Ballet,
Eugene Ballet Co., Ballet Austin, Stadttheater (Switzerland), Dances Patrelle, and Suzanne Farrell
Ballet/Kennedy Center, and as a guest artist with American Ballet Theatre. He has also performed in
Balanchine’s Don Q, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, Petrouchka, Our Town, Sleeping Beauty, Zorro, Beauty
and the Beast, Romeo & Juliet, Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Giselle, Cinderella, Carmen, Merry Widow, Billy
the Kid, and many other productions. Mr. Ragan’s choreographic credits include Joseph and the Amazing
Technicolor Dream Coat, Grease, and Really Rosie, and original pieces “The Clowns Goodbye,” “Love in a
Bottle,” “Minnie the Moocher,” and “The Squashed Fairies.”
ERIC RAGAN promo video
Eric Ragan, Director of Long Island City School of Ballet, trained at Dallas Ballet Academy, North Texas
State University, Kilgore College, Dallas Civic Ballet, and Natalia Krassovska School of Ballet. In 1988 he
was handpicked by the great Fredrick Franklin of the Ballet Russe De Monte Carlo to dance the role of
Johnny in Ruth Page Center’s Frankie and Johnny. It was the start of an impressive career that has included
recurrent roles in Paul Sutherland’s setting of Agnes de Mille’s Rodeo and lead roles with the Tulsa Ballet,
Eugene Ballet Co., Ballet Austin, Stadttheater (Switzerland), Dances Patrelle, and Suzanne Farrell
Ballet/Kennedy Center, and as a guest artist with American Ballet Theatre. He has also performed in
Balanchine’s Don Q, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, Petrouchka, Our Town, Sleeping Beauty, Zorro, Beauty
and the Beast, Romeo & Juliet, Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Giselle, Cinderella, Carmen, Merry Widow, Billy
the Kid, and many other productions. Mr. Ragan’s choreographic credits include Joseph and the Amazing
Technicolor Dream Coat, Grease, and Really Rosie, and original pieces “The Clowns Goodbye,” “Love in a
Bottle,” “Minnie the Moocher,” and “The Squashed Fairies.”
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