MADISON KEESLER is an advanced student with the prestigious San Francisco Ballet School. She started dancing when she was six years old at Nancy Derby Dance Arts in Colorado Springs, Colorado learning musical theater, jazz, tap, and ballet. At the age of eight, she focused her studies on ballet at the International Ballet School in Colorado. She trained for the next two years with German Zamuel, Velentina Moukhanova, and Mark and Sandra Carlson.
At the age of ten she and her mother moved to Carlisle, Pennsylvania so that Madison could train at the renowned Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet under the tuteledge of Marcia Dale Weary and Laszlo Berdo. She trained intensively for six years and performed principal and corps roles in Balanchine’s The Nutcracker, Stars and Stripes, Walpurgisnacht, Who Cares?, Divertimento No. 15, Serenade and Raymonda Variations. She performed the leads in Cinderella, The Sleeping Beauty and La Bayadere, as well as having original works created for her.

Madison was CPYB’s Princess Grace Award Nominee in 2007 and a National RDA Festival Scholarship recipient. She was presented the Prestige Scholarship Award by Pointe Magazine in 2006 and was a gold medalist at the US National Youth Ballet Competition in 2004. Madison received the Outstanding Artistry Award from Russian Pointe and the Future Star Award from Dance Spirit Magazine. At the age of 10 she was a top 12 finalist in the New York City Finals of the Youth America Grand Prix.

Madison has spent the last three summers studying with the San Francisco Ballet. She has also been privileged to spend part of the last two summers studying with Ethan Stiefel in Martha’s Vineyard where she has performed select roles in the Stiefel and Stars benefit performances. Other summer programs include Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington D.C., Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, and Miami City Ballet School.

On August 25th, 2008 Ms Keesler joined Hamburg Ballet as an apprentice.