Adjudicator

Jeffrey Gribler

Ballet Master, Pennsylvania Ballet

Jeffrey Gribler began dancing at the age of seven in his hometown of Dayton, Ohio. His ten years of study at the Schwartz School of the Dance included six years of performing experience with the Dayton Ballet. In 1975, at the age of 17, he was offered an apprenticeship with Pennsylvania Ballet. He joined the Corps de Ballet in 1976 and was promoted to Principal Dance in 1982.

Mr. Gribler has an extensive repertoire of both classical and modern works. He has danced leading roles in numerous ballets by George Balanchine, including Prodigal Son, Bugaku, The Four Temperaments, Agon, Who Cares? and A Midsummer Night's Dream. His roles in contemporary works include Paul Taylor's Arden Court and Company B, Merce Cunningham's Arcade, William Forsythe's Septext and Love Songs, Kevin O' Day's Col Legno and, by Lar Lubovitch, Concerto 622 and Waiting for the Sunrise. He also danced leading roles in classical repertoire, such as Siegfried and Benno in Swan Lake, Albrecht in Giselle, Franz and Dr. Coppelius in Coppelia a Stepsister in Cinderella and the role of Mercutio in John Cranko's Romeo and Juliet.

While continuing his performing career, Mr. Gribler has also been Ballet Master for Pennsylvania Ballet since 1986. Among his responsibilities is the task of rehearsing the children from the Rock School of Pennsylvania Ballet who appear in the Company's annual production of The Nutcracker. He has choreographed several works for Shut Up and Dance, the annual benefit for MANNA, as well as two new works for Pennsylvania Ballet -- Cricket Dances which debuted in October 1998, and Songs Without Words, which had its debut in October 2000. He has staged works by Lynne Taylor Corbett and Peter Martins around the United States and Europe.

He retired from the stage in June 2001, after 26 years of performing.

Mr. Gribler has previously adjudicated for the Regional Dance America / NE Festival in 2003, as well as the 2007 RDA National Festival.