Ariana Gonzalez
Associate Artistic Director
Ariana Gonzalez received her training primarily from her parents, Steven and Elizabeth Wistrich. As a principal dancer with the City Ballet of San Diego for 20 years, she has danced such lead roles in Giselle, Don Quixote, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Carmen, and Romeo and Juliet, plus leading roles in works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Peter Martins and Christopher Wheeldon. She also danced with the Atlanta Ballet and Joffrey Ballet under Gerald Arpino, the American National Ballet and Ballet Yuma. Ariana teaches at the City Ballet School.