Christiana Bennett

Christiana Bennett is a former ballet dancer, who was the principal female dancer for the Ballet West company, and was featured on The CW reality television series Breaking Pointe.

Career Bennett was born in Townsend, Massachusetts. She said she was inspired to take up ballet after watching The Nutcracker on television when she was two years old. She recalls that she announced to her parents that evening that she was going to become a ballet dancer.

Bennett was a member of the Commonwealth Ballet between 1997–98. She also performed with the Pacific Northwest Ballet and was a guest artist for the City Ballet of Boston. It was in 2012 that she became well known, when as prima ballerina for Ballet West, she appeared in the reality television series Breaking Pointe on The CW. She said that the series had the effect of showing the human side of ballet, "They got to see the good, the bad and the ugly." Despite this, they remained professionally amicable and performed together in the world premiere of the ballet "Façade". She is the recipient of the Coca-Cola Foundation Arts Award and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts award in dance.