Women's Culture Jill

W O M E N ' S C U L T U R E 23 D U S T Y B U T T O N P R O F I L E van Manen's Grosse Fugue; and the lead role in The Centre and it's Opposite created for her by Gary Stewart.  Button joined Boston Ballet in 2012 as a corps de ballet member. She was promoted to soloist in 2013 and to principal dancer in 2014. Her featured repertoire with Boston Ballet includes Florence Clerc's La Bayadère  (Gamzatti, 1st and 3rd solo Shade); José Martinez's Resonance; Alexander Ekman's Cacti (Lead Couple)i; Sir Frederick Ashton's Cinderella  (Fairy Godmother, Winter Fairy); Rudolf Nureyev's Don Quixote  (Dryad Queen); Mikko Nissinen's The Nutcracker  (Sugar Plum Fairy, Dew Drop, Snow Queen) and Swan Lake (Pas de Trois and Pas de Cinq); George Balanchine's Serenade  (Dark Angel), Symphony in C (3rd Movement principal), Rubies (Tall Girl) and Emeralds (Lead Couple), and Coppélia (War and Discord, Summer variation); William Forsythe's The Second Detail, and The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude; Jorma Elo's Plan to B, Close to Chuck (Reborn),  Awake Only, and Bach Cello Suites; Marius Petipa's The Sleeping Beauty  (Lilac Fairy); Jiří Kylián's Wings of Wax; Helen Pickett's Eventide; Lila