Jocelyn Buchanan

Ms. Buchanan has lent her managerial expertise to Atlanta Festival Ballet in various positions of leadership since 1996. She has been an advisor to the directors and has initiated many wonderful programs available throughout the school and company. Her responsibilities include student placement, evaluations and directing rehearsals.

Ms. Buchanan received her training from Pamelia Meadows in Arizona and Maria Vegh of Marin Ballet in California. She worked closely with Sally Streets from Berkley Ballet Theatre, and the noted ballerina Marina Eglevsky. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from Arizona State University. Performing experience includes dancing with the Martha Graham Company and with the Murray Lois Company.

She has performed professionally with Atlanta Festival Ballet since 1994. Some of her most memorable roles include performing in Artistic Director Nicolas Pacaña's original works such as Summer's Eve, Woman of Crystals and Hold On; and in Artistic Director Gregory Aaron's Alice in Wonderland and Bella Amore. She is well known for her interpretations of Arabian in Atlanta Festival Ballet's The Nutcracker, and as the Lilac Fairy in The Sleeping Beauty.

Giselle DiBlasi Pugh

Giselle is originally from West Columbia, Texas.  She studied with Margo and Dennis Marshall in Houston, and was a member of City Ballet of Houston, a regional honor company for five years.  She attended several intensive summer workshops with the Boston Ballet, Houston Ballet, and The Joffrey Ballet in New York and in San Antonio.  Giselle received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ballet Performance from the University of Oklahoma.  There she studied with Mary Margaret Holt, Dennis Marshall, Allan Kinzie, and Donn Edwards.  She was chosen as a member of the Oklahoma Festival Ballet, and had the opportunity to perform such ballets as Napoli, Balanchine’s Serenade, Sleeping Beauty Act III, excerpts from Paquita, The Nutcracker, Le Spectre de la Rose, and Carmina Burana.  In addition, she was selected to tour with the company to Nice, France in 2000 and Cancun, Mexico in 2002.  Audiences will remember her portrayal of Clara in holiday classic The Nutcracker as well dancing the Pas de Deux as Princess of the Sea in the US premier of Nicolas Pacaña and Gregory Aaron’s The Little Mermaid.  In 2004 she danced the delightful Beauty in Beauty & the Beast.

Jennifer Hurley Dunn

Jennifer began her training with Warwick Ballet Theatre of Warwick, New York under the direction of Lucinda Henry. She has studied with The Eglevsky Ballet, New Jersey Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Kirvo Academy of Ballet, and The American Academy of Ballet. In 2002, she received the Silvio Petturici Performing Arts Scholarship Award. Jennifer graduated cum laude from The University of the Arts with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Dance Performance and Dance Education. She has danced several soloist roles for AFB such as the white rabbit in Alice in Wonderland, Michael in Peter Pan, lead mirliton in The Nutcracker, and Araiadne in The Little Mermaid.

Caitlin Collins

Caitlin began her training at the age of seven, under the direction of Nicolas Pacaña, Gregory Aaron, and Jocelyn Buchanan. She has performed in the corps de ballet for Atlanta Festival Ballet in The Nutcracker, Jungle Book, Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake and Peter Pan. Caitlin has also acted around the United States and performed with such companies as The Atlanta Workshop Players, Mid-Summer Macon, Mainstreet Players, and Destiny Players to name a few. Most recently, she appeared as Ruth, in the independent film Dear Becca.

Johannah Mosley

Johannah is from Alexandria, Virginia. She graduated summa cum laude from Radford University in 2010 with a BFA in Ballet. She trained at The Washington School of Ballet where she performed in Septime Webre's The Nutcracker and Balanchine's Serenade. She spent summers at Richmond Ballet, North Carolina Dance Theatre and Summer Stages Dance at Concord Academy.

Christy Sikking

Christy began her training at age 7 at Atlanta Festival Ballet under the direction of Nicolas Pacaña, Gregory Aaron, and Jocelyn Buchanan. She has enjoyed dancing with AFB in many productions such as The Nutcracker, The Little Mermaid, and Twas the Night Before Halloween (choreographed by Jay Jernigan). Christy is currently a full time student at Gordon College, majoring in Early Childhood Education.