{"id":3444,"date":"2024-07-10T02:49:44","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T18:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cityballet.org\/school\/?page_id=3444"},"modified":"2025-07-26T05:20:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T21:20:46","slug":"annie-clifford","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cityballet.org\/school\/staff\/annie-clifford\/","title":{"rendered":"Annie Clifford"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide cb-fadeIn is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large has-custom-border cb-staff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cityballet.org\/school\/wp-content\/uploads\/Annie-Clifford-Headshot-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3445\" style=\"border-radius:15px;box-shadow:var(--wp--preset--shadow--natural)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cityballet.org\/school\/wp-content\/uploads\/Annie-Clifford-Headshot-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/cityballet.org\/school\/wp-content\/uploads\/Annie-Clifford-Headshot-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/cityballet.org\/school\/wp-content\/uploads\/Annie-Clifford-Headshot-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cityballet.org\/school\/wp-content\/uploads\/Annie-Clifford-Headshot-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/cityballet.org\/school\/wp-content\/uploads\/Annie-Clifford-Headshot-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https:\/\/cityballet.org\/school\/wp-content\/uploads\/Annie-Clifford-Headshot.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Annie Clifford<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group cb-staffBio cb-inlineHeader cb-centerTextOnSmallDevice is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:600\">Annie Clifford<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"cb-wrapControl\"> is originally from <span>Bath, Maine<\/span> and began her ballet training under the direction of <span>Elizabeth Drucker<\/span>. She attended summer programs at The Nutmeg Conservatory, <span>Boston Ballet<\/span> School, and Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet before attending the year round program at Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet on scholarship <span>in 2019<\/span>. At Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, she trained under the direction of <span>Darla Hoover<\/span>, <span>Nicholas Ade<\/span>, <span>Melinda Howe<\/span>, <span>Andrea Long<\/span>, and <span>Simon Ball<\/span>. <span>In 2021<\/span>, she began studying ballet at the University of Utah and graduated with a BFA in Ballet. While at the University of Utah, she performed in various classical and contemporary work by guest choreographers with both the Ballet and Modern dance programs. <span>In 2023<\/span>, she was invited to join the studio company of <span>City Ballet<\/span> of <span>San Diego<\/span> and became an apprentice <span>in 2025<\/span>. She has performed in both classical and neoclassical work with <span>City Ballet<\/span> such as <cite>Serenade<\/cite> and <cite>Emeralds<\/cite> by <span>George Balanchine<\/span>, <span>Elizabeth Wistrich\u2019s<\/span> <cite>Nutcracker<\/cite>, <cite>Swan Lake<\/cite>, <cite>The Seasons<\/cite>, <cite>Bolero<\/cite>, and <cite>Carmen<\/cite>, as well as <span>Geoff Gonzalez\u2019<\/span> <cite class=\"cb-canWrap\"><span>An American<\/span> <span>in Paris<\/span><\/cite>, <cite>Carmina Burana<\/cite>, and <cite>Dracula<\/cite>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annie Clifford is originally from Bath, Maine and began her ballet training under the direction of Elizabeth Drucker. She attended summer programs at The Nutmeg Conservatory, Boston Ballet School, and Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet before attending the year round program at Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet on scholarship in 2019. At Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1791,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3444","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cityballet.org\/school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cityballet.org\/school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cityballet.org\/school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cityballet.org\/school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cityballet.org\/school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3444"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cityballet.org\/school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3792,"href":"https:\/\/cityballet.org\/school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3444\/revisions\/3792"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cityballet.org\/school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cityballet.org\/school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}