AMBER AUFIERO

Amber fell in love with ballet when she began her training at the age of 3. In 2014 Amber began her career as a trainee with Ballet Tucson. Amber progressed through the ranks and spent five seasons dancing with the company. In 2019 Amber joined Glorify Dance Theater as a first soloist. She also continues to guest perform with several area schools. Throughout Amber’s career she has had the opportunity to choreograph and stage her own productions including The Firebird, Cinderella, and smaller group pieces. Amber is a certified health coach and Progressing Ballet Technique instructor, as well. When Amber is not dancing in a studio she is happy teaching ballet to the next generation of dancers at several local studios. Upon joining PAB’S teaching staff in 2023, she completed the Bolshoi’s teaching seminar. Amber is thrilled to be sharing her love of ballet with Dance Del Bello.

Amber has performed in the following Dance Del Bello Rep: Swan Lake (Pas de Trois, Big Swans, Little Swans), & A Christmas Carol (The Niece).


CHLOE GALLER

Chloe Galler joined Dance Del Bello as a company member in 2015, after training at Pennsylvania Dance Institute for over 10 years. She graduated from University of Pittsburgh in 2021, where she participated in their Ballet Club. She has performed in numerous Dance Del Bello productions, such as A Christmas Carol (Tiny Tim, The Niece & Want), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, When Fairy Tales Come True, The Sleeping Beauty ( White Cat) and Cinderella (Winter Fairy).

Chloe has also taken her background in ballet to perform as a fire dancer, aerialist, and flow artist with multiple entertainment companies.Bolshoi’s teaching seminar. Amber is thrilled to be sharing her love of ballet with Dance Del Bello.


DANIELLE BOURGEON

Danielle trained at The Rock School where she danced in the Pennsylvania Ballet's Nutcracker 1997-1999. She then trained at Pennsylvania Dance Institute & joined DDB in 2000 performing in Sleeping Beauty (Prologue Fairy), Coppélia, & principal roles in A Christmas Carol (Present & Beggars), When Fairy Tales Come True (“the Bitch”) & Cinderella (Fairy Godmother). In 2003 she attended Point Park on a dance scholarship & originated a principal role in Peter Merz’s original work: Au. Danielle retired from ballet in 2005 due to injury & returned to dancing in 2015 after a diagnosis of MS, working her way back from complete paralysis in 2010. She choreographed an original piece, Made Stronger, documenting her journey with MS & performed it at Philadelphia Dance Day 2018 & for an MS Symposium in 2019 at PennMedicine.

Danielle performed in DDB’s A Christmas Carol in 2019, rejoined the company in 2022 as a Principal Character Artist to play the “Stepmother” in DDB’s production of Cinderella (2022), “Carabosse” in The Sleeping Beauty (2023) & Mrs. Cratchit & Mrs. Fezziwing in A Christmas Carol (2024, 2025).



EMILY MURRAY

DDB Student Company Member

Emily has performed in the following Dance Del Bello Repertory:

Swan Lake (Neapolitan & Little Swans)
A Christmas Carol (Belle)
Don Quixote, The Dream (Dryad)
Coppélia (Dawn & Swanilda’s Friends)
Glazunov’s The Seasons (Autumn Bacchanal)
Shitau


JACOB BONOCINI

Jacob has been dancing with Dance Del Bello since 2019. Originally from San Antonio, TX, he started his training under the direction of Jacqueline Aguirre. After high school he was invited to join the San Antonio Metropolitan Ballet performing soloist roles in various ballets and Regional Dance America Conferences.

He then went to train at Ballet Austin and danced professionally with Alamo Arts Ballet Theatre under Julie Simpson and Judith Gani.  Jacob was then invited to the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre on full scholarship for the Graduate Program. While at PBT School, he danced in numerous classical and contemporary ballets such as Etudes, Giselle Peasant dance and works by Alan Obuzor. He also had the opportunity to learn and perform ballets from choreographers such as George Balanchine, Dwight Roden, and Kristofer Storey, amongst others.

Jacob also performed with the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre in numerous ballets such as Terrence Orr’s productions such as The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker.  Jacob has been a Guest Artist with the New Castle Regional Ballet and Gwendolyn Bye’s Dance Fusion and most recently danced with Burgundy Blue Dance Company where he was an inaugural member since 2018 under the direction of Sevon Wright.

Jacob has danced leading and featured roles in Dance Del Bello productions such as "Franz" in Coppelia, "Ignorance" & “The Nephew” in A Christmas Carol, and most recently "Siegfried" in Swan Lake.


JAMES WRAY

Originally from Hatboro he spent his training at The Metropolitan Ballet Academy, Olga Kresin Ballet, and the recently closed Academy of International Ballet. He had the opportunity to compete in YAGP and perform in ballets such as The Nutcracker, Graduation Ball, Mid-Summer Nights Dream, and Coppelia. In 2024-2025 he had the opportunity to be a dancer at the Kansas City Ballet in Missouri where he performed in Ballets such as Alice in Wonderland, Beauty and the Beast, and The Nutcracker.

This is Jay’s first season with Dance Del Bello


NINA BACCIAU

DDB Student Company Member

Emily has performed in the following Dance Del Bello Repertory:

Swan Lake (Spanish Princess & Little Swans)
A Christmas Carol (Doll, Want)
Don Quixote, The Dream (Dryad)
Coppélia (Folly & Swanilda’s Friends)
Glazunov’s The Seasons (Autumn Bacchanal)
Shitau
The Sleeping Beauty
(Fee Canary & Aurora’s Friends/Waltz)
Cinderella (Maid & Nymph)


SARAH BROWER

Sarah, a Bucks County, Pennsylvania native, received her classical ballet training at The Pennsylvania Dance Institute and the Pennsylvania Academy of Ballet Society. In 2003, she attended the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts. She earned her BA in Dance from DeSales University, where she was a Baker Endowment for the Arts recipient from 2004–2007 and performed works by Gerald Arpino, Doug Varone, Trinette Singleton, Luis Bravo, and Ronald K. Brown, as well as in the Dance Notation Bureau’s reconstruction of Clay Taliaferro’s Falling Off the Back Porch.

Currently a principal dancer with Dance Del Bello, Sarah has performed leading roles in Swan Lake (Odette/Odile),  Cinderella (title role), The Sleeping Beauty (Aurora, Lilac Fairy & Diamond Fairy), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Titania), Coppélia (Swanilda), A Christmas CarolDon Quixote (Dulcinea), Gabrielle ConcertanteShitau, and When Fairy Tales Come True. She also serves as Ballet Mistress for the company and a teaching artist for its school.

Active as freelance artist throughout Bucks County, Philadelphia, and the Lehigh Valley, Sarah has expanded her artistry into fine art modeling and underwater dancing for photography and film.