Stacy Caddell

Kennedy Cole

Stacy Caddell was born in Norfolk, Virginia. She began dancing at the age of 5 and was later as a young teenager offered a scholarship to attend the School of American Ballet in New York City. She was then invited by George Balanchine to join the New York City Ballet where she became a Soloist. She later left the company and worked for many years with Twyla Tharp. Ms. Caddell performed all over the world with the NYCB and Twyla Tharp, including a tour with Mikhail Baryshnikov. After many years performing she was asked to assist Ms. Tharp at American Ballet Theater on the ballet Know By Heart and also at the New York City Ballet on Beethoven’s Seventh. She was later asked to become the Dance Supervisor on Twyla Tharp’s Tony Award-winning Broadway show “Movin’ Out” and also helped to restage the show’s first National Tour. Stacy then became a repetiteur for Ms. Tharp’s ballets and also for the George Balanchine Trust. She has staged Tharp’s Broadway show Come Fly Away, In The Upper Room, Know By Heart, Brahms/Handel, The Brahms-Haydn, Junk Duet, Noir, Octet, Nine Sinatra Songs, Sinatra Suite, Sweet Fields, Ballare, George Balanchine’s Serenade, Theme and Variations, Ballo della Regina, Symphony in C, Nutcracker, Coppelia, Walpurgisnacht, Who Cares?, Valse Fantasie, and The Tin Soldier. Ms. Caddell worked as a choreographer on the opera Aida, the short film Central Park, and two episodes of the HBO series The Sopranos. Most recently she had accepted a 3-year position at the Royal Danish Ballet as a Ballet Instructor and lived abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark. Currently, Ms. Caddell is working at the Joffrey Ballet School in New York City where she teaches, stages, and choreographs for the Ballet Trainee program. Stacy Caddell is also a designer and the co-founder of an online dance apparel store called protutustudio.com