Sharon Teague, soloist 

Birthplace
Los Angeles, California

Dance Training
Sylvia Palmer
Houston Ballet's Ben Stevenson Academy

Joined the Company
1996

Promoted to Soloist
2002

Favorite Role
Neopolitan Princess in Stanton Welch's Swan Lake

One defining moment...
In August 2006, when I began The Artists Way by Julia Cameron. Life hasn't been the same since. 

Sharon Teague began dancing in San Diego, California when she was nine.  Her primary instructors were Sylvia Palmer, Mieczyslaw Morawski and Lynda Yourth.  She spent summers studying at Pennsylvania Ballet, School of American Ballet and California State Summer School for the Arts.  At sixteen, she was invited to train at Houston Ballet's Ben Stevenson Academy on full scholarship and one year later, she joined the company as an apprentice.  Ms. Teague was promoted to soloist in 2002.  She has performed in numerous works by Stanton Welch, most notably the Neopolitan Princess in Swan Lake, the first pas de deux in Nosotros and the opening girl in Brigade. She has portrayed comedic characters such as Swanhilda in Ben Stevenson's Coppélia, Lise in Sir Frederick Ashton's La Fille Mal Gardee, and parts in the Harlequinade pas de deux and The Concert by Jerome Robbins.  Her more elegant work includes the Lilac Fairy in The Sleeping Beauty, the Winter Fairy in Cinderella, both the Sugar Plum Fairy and the Snow Queen every year in The Nutcracker, and the dramatic role of Olga in John Cranko's Onegin.

She received critical acclaim for her fouette turns in Graduation Ball and Les Patineurs.  Ms. Teague has also danced a variety of contemporary roles, including those in Lila York's Rules of the Game;  Mark Morris's Sandpaper, George Balanchine's Serenade, Theme and Variations, La Valse, Western Symphony, and The Four Temperaments; Sir Kenneth MacMillan's Gloria; Ben Stevenson's Four Last Songs; Harold Lander's Etudes, Serge Lifar's Suite en Blanc, and Christopher Wheeldon's Carnival of the Animals.  She has danced in several world premieres, including works by Matjash Mrozewski, David Parsons and Trey McIntyre.  Ms. Teague is married to Stewart Teague, a high school biology teacher. She hopes to start a family, teach ballet, become a writer and go to art school after retirement.