Brook Ogle received her primary training from Dame Sonia Arova at the Alabama School of Fine Arts in Birmingham, Alabama, before graduating with honours with a BFA in Dance Performance from Butler University. Brook has danced professionally with City Ballet of San Diego, Nashville Ballet, Charleston Ballet Theatre, Hosanna Sacred Arts, and as a guest artist with Ballet Internationale.  Her professional performing career included soloist and principal roles such as Myrtha in Giselle, Rose Queen and Snow Princess in The Nutcracker, Tiger Lily in Peter Pan, and Big Swans in Swan Lake. She has been featured in leading roles in several ballets by Elizabeth Wistrich, including Carmina Burana, The Seasons, & Hcivokatsohs, as well as several ballets by George Balanchine such as First Pas de Trois in Agon, Allegro Brillant, Serenade, Rubies, Emeralds, and Donizetti Variations.

 

Brook served four years as Artistic Director and Choreographer for City Ballet 2, which functions as the junior company to City Ballet of San Diego. She was a company class teacher and company rehearsal director at City Ballet of San Diego, as well as a choreographer and rehearsal director for youth cast in the company’s production of The Nutcracker. Brook was a faculty member at City Ballet School for twelve years. In that time, many of her students received scholarships and acceptances to some of the world’s most prestigious ballet schools.

 

In 2021, Brook earned the Professional Dancers’ Postgraduate Teaching Certificate, graduating with Distinction. She has been a vocational tutor at London Vocational Ballet School since 2023, teaching ballet technique, pointework, and classical repertoire.  Her choreography has been featured at MoveIt and the LVBS summer productions of Renaissance & FOOTPRINTS.  In addition to her work with London Vocational Ballet School, Brook teaches ballet, pointe work, and virtuosity at London Studio Centre on both the full time and associate programmes.