Born in Ft. Worth, Texas, Ms. Barfield began her training in Ft. Worth with Gayle Corkery, and then continued in Dallas at the Etgen Atkinson School. At 14 she began studying during the summers at the School of American Ballet in New York City, and at the age of 16 moved to New York to study at the School exclusively. Ms. Barfield joined Pennsylvania Ballet in 1984, was promoted to Soloist in 1987 and to Principal in 1990. Her repertoire includes a wide variety of classical roles including Odette/Odile in Swan Lake, Myrtha in Giselle, Vera in Robert Weiss’ full-length Winter Dreams, Les Sylphides, the title role in Ben Stevenson’s Cinderella and Juliet in John Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet. She has also performed principal roles in Peter Martins’ Fearful Symmetries, and in Petipa’s Paquita and Don Quixote. Ms. Barfield has performed leading roles in numerous Balanchine ballets such as The Nutcracker, in which she performs Dewdrop and the Sugarplum Fairy, Who Cares?, Allegro Brilliante, Agon, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, The Four Temperaments, Serenade, Western Symphony, Divertimento No. 15, Donizetti Variations, Concerto Barocco, Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux and Odette in Swan Lake, Act II. 

Additionally, Ms. Barfield has originated roles in Christopher d’ Amboise’s The Golden Mean and Franklin Court, and danced in such diverse pieces as Merce Cunningham’s Arcade, Lynne Taylor-Corbett’s Great Galloping Gottschalk, Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux’s Menage a Quatre and William Forsythe’s Love Songs. In September, 1992, Ms. Barfield was one of six dancers from Pennsylvania Ballet to appear at the Second International Arts Festival in Tianjin, China, as a representative of The City of Philadelphia. Her favorite role is as mother to her beautiful son, Skylar Barfield Blanchard, born to her and husband John (a former modern dancer) on November 3, 1999. 

Ms. Miller has danced for 17 years and is currently a student at the University of Texas in San Antonio studying psychology.  She currently teaches the Creative Movement classes and Ballet classes at The Ballet Conservatory of South Texas.

Ms. Miller graduated from the English National Ballet School in London, England with a national diploma in Professional Dance and Classical Ballet.  Before training in London, she trained at the Houston Ballet Academy.  Ms. Miller has attended ballet training programs in Czech Republic, Italy, England, France, and the United States.

A native Texan, Ms. Wolf is originally from Corpus Christi.  In 1977, she was awarded a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ballet from the University of Utah.  For five years beginning shortly after her marriage to her husband Richard, Janice taught ballet and jazz dance for Larry Roquemore, founder of what is now the Corpus Christi Ballet.

Kym  began her training with Donna Pope, former Principal Dancer with New Orleans Ballet. While attending the University of Southern Mississippi she continued her dance training while pursuing a major in Exercise Physiology with a minor in Business. She danced professionally with Dance Entourage for two years under the direction of Donna Pope. With Dance Entourage she performed on stage and television as a featured dancer in both classical and contemporary works.  She was the Artistic Director of Studio One Academy of Performing Arts in Jackson, Mississippi, as well as for that school's performing company for 10 years following her professional career. She then moved to Tyler, Texas where she was the Artistic Director of Ballet Tyler for eight years and Director of the School of Ballet Tyler for five years. Ms Lanier has choreographed as well as staged  several full length classical ballets such as The Nutcracker, Coppelia, Cinderella and excerpts from the beloved classics Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and Don Quioxte.  Her students have received scholarships to many prestigious programs such as School of American Ballet, American Ballet Theater, Alvin Ailey, Burklyn Ballet,  Boston Ballet, Orlando Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, North Carolina School of the Arts, and Southern Methodist University. Her students work and Kym's contemporary choreography have won numerous awards at the regional and national levels. Ms Lanier continues to teach and choreograph for regional companies throughout the Southeast and she is excited to be with the Ballet Conservatory of South Texas.