ARTISTIC TEAM
Beth Fritz-Logrea
Co-Artistic Director
She has served as the co-artistic director of Westchester Ballet Company since 1986. She also owns and operates Logrea Dance Academy. Fritz-Logrea was a protégée of famed ballerina Dame Alicia Markova. She received her early training in Memphis, Tennessee, with Charles Kirby and Manola Agullo. At the age of sixteen she joined the Metropolitan Opera Ballet in New York City and continued her career as principal dancer with Ballet Etudes Repertory Company, Connecticut, St. Gallen Stadt Theatre, Switzerland, and Opernhaus Graz, Austria. She toured extensively in Europe, dancing leading roles in such ballets as Giselle, Swan Lake, Coppélia, Romeo and Juliet and Pas de Quatre. Beth performed the role of the Sugarplum Fairy in the Company’s production of The Nutcracker until 1992.
Jean Logrea
Co-Artistic Director
Logrea was trained from an early age at the Scoala Speciala in Cluj, Romania, in classical ballet, character, and folk dance. He was principal dancer at the Opera House Cluj, as well as a teacher at its affiliated school. He toured extensively throughout Europe and the former Soviet Union, dancing such major roles as Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, the Jester in Swan Lake, the Pas de Deux from Le Corsaire, the Peasant Pas de Deux from Giselle and The Rocker in The Miraculous Mandarin. After seven years as principal dancer at Opernhaus Graz, Austria, he moved to the United States in 1986 to serve as co-artistic director of the Westchester Ballet Company. That same year he opened Logrea Dance Academy with Beth Fritz-Logrea. Jean performed the role of the Cavalier in the Company’s Nutcracker until 1992 and continues to appear as Uncle Drosselmeyer.
Nick Logrea
Associate Artistic Director
Nick has performed in Westchester Ballet Company’s Nutcracker for more than 30 years. He has performed as a soloist in Les Patineurs, La Bayadère, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Peter and the Wolf, La Boutique Fantasque, Tales of Vienna, and A Glenn Miller Nutcracker. He regularly appears as The Butler, Mouse King, and Coffee from Arabia in The Nutcracker. As Associate Artistic Director, Nick focuses on sharing his knowledge of Westchester Ballet Company's repertoire. Nick is an active Zumba Education Specialist, teaching Master Classes in the U.S. and abroad, and a Zumba instructor at LifeTime Fitness. He is also an Associate Director at Logrea Dance Academy where he teaches jazz.
Sharyn Korey
Rehearsal Director
Sharyn is originally from Croton-on-Hudson, NY, and received her early training at Logrea Dance Academy. She performed with the Westchester Ballet Company for seven years before joining Richmond Ballet, where she performed in Serenade, Coppélia, Nutcracker, and original works. She earned a degree in International Studies from Middlebury College and then moved to Brooklyn to work as a freelance dancer. An ABT certified instructor, she currently teaches ballet at the Mark Morris Dance Center and is an adjunct instructor of dance at Hofstra University. She’s also the co-founder of NACHMO, a choreography festival open to everyone, and the director of Sunset Park Dance, a studio in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
