Ms. Dattellas is an accomplished professional dancer, choreographer and teacher. Ms. Dattellas has in-depth experience developing dancers’ technique, strength and artistry and is passionate about cultivating artists beyond their technique. Dattellas joined Ballet Theatre Company as Artistic Director and General Manager in June 2017. Since joining the company, Dattellas choreographed and premiered Cinderella (Spring 2018) the first full-length ballet presented by BTC, The Nutcracker (December 2018), Sleeping Beauty (Spring 2019) and Snow White, a live action ballet film which premiered in June 2021.

Emily Aubrey Silva graduated summa cum laude with her BFA in Dance Performance and Ballet Pedagogy from the University of Hartford’s Hartt School. During her time at the Hartt School, she performed principal roles in repertoire including Arthur Saint-Leon’s La Vivandiere and Martha Graham’s Appalachian Spring, in addition to originating roles in new works by choreographers including Claudia Schreirer, Norbert de la Cruz III, and Manuel Vignoulle. Emily is a former soloist with Ballet Hartford, and has performed numerous soloist roles as a guest artist and season dancer with Ballet Theatre Company. Most recently, Ms. Silva appeared as Snow White in BTC’s live-action ballet for film, Snow White, choreographed and directed by Stephanie Dattellas. In addition to performing in all of Ballet Theatre Company’s main-stage productions since 2018, Emily Silva has joined BTC Artistic Staff in a number of roles including Assistant Ballet Mistress, Community Youth Outreach Coordinator, and Ballet Mistress. Emily manages communications with dancers & crew for all productions, and assists Artistic Director Stephanie Dattellas throughout each production.

As a professional ballerina for twenty-two years, Maria Terezia Balogh was a principal dancer with the Lyric Opera Ballet, later known as Chicago City Ballet, and the Fort Worth Ballet. During that time, she was an instructor in the official schools of both companies. After she retired as a dancer, she married and had three children, but continued her career as a ballet instructor. Presently, she is the Founding Director of Dance for All Saints’ Episcopal School in Fort Worth, where she instructs student levels early childhood - 12. Her greatest reward is to instill in her students a love of classical ballet they can enjoy throughout their lives.

Paul Mejia was born in Lima, Peru, but was raised in New York. He joined the School of American Ballet in 1958, and had choreographed his first ballets by the age of fourteen. Mr. Mejia joined the New York City Ballet in 1964, and danced principal roles in many of George Balanchine's ballets. In 1972, he joined Maurice Bejart's Ballet of the Twentieth Century where he danced and choreographed throughout Europe; and in 1977, he staged a season of ballet in Guat ala, where he created four new ballets including Romeo and Juliet, the first of his highly acclaimed Shakespearean ballet series. Mr. Mejia joined the Chicago City Ballet as co-artistic director with Maria Tallchief; and during the next seven years, he created fifteen new ballets, including his full-length version of Cinderella, which toured nationally and internationally to great acclaim. His ballet Eight by Adler, music by Richard Adler, was later filmed for PBS and won an my Award for Suzanne Farrell.

From 1987 to 1998, he was the artistic director of the Fort Worth Dallas Ballet, during which time he added thirty-two of his own works to the company's repertoire, including sixteen world premieres. Dedicated to the artistic vision and philosophy of George Balanchine, Mr. Mejia has choreographed dramatic story ballets, as well as works in the neoclassical style; and has choreographed several works for operas, including the Chicago Lyric Opera. He has been a guest teacher and lecturer in various schools and universities throughout the US.

In 1984, he was selected by Esquire Magazine as one of the "Outstanding Americans Under 40." In 1998, Mr. Mejia became the artistic advisor of the Metropolitan Classical Ballet, then Ballet Arlington. He has added many of his own works to the company's repertoire, including three world premieres, and has staged several George Balanchine ballets. In 2001, he assumed the position of executive director for the Company, and in 2002 was named co-artistic director with Alexander Vetrov. He and his wife, Maria Terezia Balogh, and their children, Roman, Isabella and Lazslo, reside in West Hartford, CT.