National Choreographers Initiative is a non-profit dance organization based in Irvine, California, that promotes choreographers from all over the United States in their pursuits to develop the professional ballet world. A three week workshop with auditioned dancers selected from various ballet companies in the United States are rehearsed and showcased in a performance.

This organization was founded in 2004 by Molly Lynch and continues to run every summer at the ]]University of California, Irvine]], campus. Performances are held at the Barclay Theater in Irvine, California, and are open to the public.

Past dancers have been from companies such as: Boston Ballet

Boston Ballet

Boston Ballet, founded in 1963 by E. Virginia Williams, was the first professional repertory ballet company in New England. Boston Ballet’s national and international reputation developed under the leadership of Artistic Directors Violette Verdy , Bruce Marks , and Anna-Marie Holmes...

, Nevada Ballet Theatre, BalletMet, Ballet Austin

Ballet Austin

Ballet Austin is one of the largest classical ballet academies in the country. Each year the Ballet Austin company performs ballets from a wide variety of choreographers, including Stephen Mills....

, Kansas City Ballet

Kansas City Ballet

Founded in 1957, Kansas City Ballet is a 25-member professional ballet company under the direction of Artistic Director William Whitener and Executive Director Jeffrey J. Bentley. Kansas City Ballet performs three mixed repertory seasons per year as well as the ever-popular Nutcracker...

 and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago is an American dance company based in Chicago. HSDC performs in downtown Chicago and its metropolitan area and tours nationally and internationally throughout the year....

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2009

• Sidra Bell
• Deanna Carter
• RIck McCullough
• Olivier Wevers of Whim W'Him
  Whim W'Him
  Whim W'Him is a Seattle dance company founded by Olivier Wevers in January 2009. The company’s name reflects Wevers’ love of spontaneity, experimentation, and artistic collaboration. Whim W'Him was granted 5013 status in the fall of 2009...
  
  

2005

• Val Caniparoli
• Christopher d'Amboise
  Christopher d'Amboise
  Christopher d'Amboise is an American dancer, choreographer, writer, and theatre director.Born and raised in New York City, the son of dancers Jacques d'Amboise and Carolyn George, d'Amboise became a principal dancer in the New York City Ballet, where he worked closely with George Balanchine and...
  
  
• William Soleau
• Luca Veggetti
  Luca Veggetti
  Luca Veggetti was born in Bologna, Italy and trained at La Scala in Milan under I.Glowacka and G.Popescu. After his career as a dancer at London Festival Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet and Ballet Chicago. Veggetti started an on-going collaboration with Pier Luigi Pizzi as a choreographer and assistant...
  
  

2004

• Ann Marie DeAngelo
  Ann Marie DeAngelo
  Ann Marie DeAngelo is an American choreographer, director, teacher, and former dancer. She was leading ballerina with the Joffrey Ballet, where she later served as associate director at the time of the company's move to Chicago, Illinois in 1995. DeAngelo was the founding artistic director of...
  
  
• Peter Pucci
• James Sewell
  James Sewell Ballet
  The James Sewell Ballet is a Minneapolis, Minnesota-based ballet company of eight dancers founded in 1990 by James Sewell and Sally Rousse.-History:James Sewell Ballet was founded in 1990 by James Sewell and Sally Rousse in New York City...
  
  
• Lynne Tayor-Corbett

External links

National Choreographers Initiative homepage

Molly Lynch's homepage, NCI artistic director

The Barclay Theatre homepage

Los Angeles Times review from July 27, 2009

SparkOC.com entry for NCI