Andrew Carroll

Andrew Carroll holds a BFA in Dance, and an MA in Arts Administration. Mr. Carroll has an extensive background in the performing arts, which includes performing nationally and internationally for nine years as a soloist with the Pennsylvania Ballet Company in Philadelphia, and a principal with the Ohio Ballet prior to that. His repertoire included: Prince Siegfried in SwanLake, The Cavalier in The Nutcracker, principal roles in the Balanchine ballets of Square Dance, Serenade, Allegro Brilliant, TheFour Temperaments, Agon, Western Symphony and Symphony in C among others, as well as principal roles in the works of Marius Petipa, William Forsythe, David Parsons, Paul Taylor, Anthony Tudor, Christopher d’Amboise, Alvin Ailey, Robert Joffrey, Gerald Arpino , Lynn Taylor-Corbett and Doug Varone. His career spanned performing throughout the United States, including The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and The Joyce Theatre in Manhattan, The Spoleto Festival in Spoleto Italy and Charleston South Carolina, as well as appearing throughout South America, China and Europe. In 1994, he was named one of six cultural ambassadors to the City of Philadelphia. 

 In 2010, Mr. Carroll joined USF, where he now teaches all levels of ballet, history and partnering. He has used dance to produce videos for the awareness of bullying, dating violence, suicide awareness, human sex-trafficking, Parkinson’s Disease and Down Syndrome which are used worldwide.  Mr. Carroll is honored to have collaborated with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago for the suicide awareness video.  Mr. Carroll’s research using dance as a communication tool to address social issues has been featured on the ABC, CBS, FOX and Bay News 9 television news networks.  Mr. Carroll has been an international speaker at conferences in Austria, Hungary, Greece, Portugal and Hawaii and is the author of What Gina C. Peabody Discovers in the Nutcracker. He is a sought after guest artist teacher, and has taught numerous Master Classes in ballet at The Florida Dance Festival, The Patel Conservatory, The Rock School, and Le Centre, L’Abbaye de Pontevoy, France.

Andrew Carroll’s ballet class is based in a contemporary ballet model. The class is rooted in traditional ballet technique, and features expansion of movement. Exercises are developed to promote use of line, lush movement, artistry and using space in broad, bold attack.