Corey Bourbonniere is a native of Woonsocket, Rhode Island. They joined Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre in 2012, where they spent 13 seasons and rose to the rank of soloist. Before joining PBT, Corey trained with Krylo Dance Studios, Heritage Ballet, and the Brae Crest School of Ballet, where they performed with the State Ballet of RI. Corey later attended the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School Graduate Program, as well as summer programs at the American Academy of Dance and Texas Ballet Theater.
Corey received the honor of being named one of Pointe Magazine’s Standouts of 2018 for their portrayal of Bernardo in Jerome Robbins’s West Side Story Suite. They then went on to play the same role in Francesca Zambello’s full length West Side Story at the Glimmerglass Festival in Cooperstown, New York. In 2022, Corey was one of eleven Black ballet dancers from around the world selected by Theresa Ruth Howard to perform in the world premiere of Donald Byrd’s From Other Suns, as part of the Kennedy Center’s Reframing the Narrative. The cast in this performance also earned a nod from Pointe Magazine as a Standout of 2022.
Among their many PBT performances, Corey’s favorites include Jiří Kylián’s Petite Mort and Aszure Barton’s Bright Progressions, as well as featured roles as a Stomper in Twyla Tharp’s In The Upper Room, the Third Sailor in Jerome Robbins’s Fancy Free, the Prince in The Sleeping Beauty, and Drosselmeyer in Terrence S. Orr’s The Nutcracker.
This is Corey’s first season with Ballet Idaho.