Christina's Performances

Performance Calendar - Christina's Photo Gallery

Christina is currently dancing as a guest artist with JAZZeMOTION, a resident dance company of Joy of Motion Dance Center in Washington, DC. Under the direction of Doug Yeuell, the Executive and Artistic Director of Joy of Motion, JAZZeMOTION offers outreach performances for area nursing homes and senior centers and often appears in Performance Showcases at the Jack Guidone Theatre in Friendship Heights.

Christina will be featured in a new JAZZeMOTION will perform a new jazz piece, Got to Get You into My Life, during the Studio-to-Stage: Adult Performance Class Showcase on Saturday, January 23 at 8:00 PM and Sunday, January 24 at 7:00 PM. Performances will be held at the Jack Guidone Theater at Joy of Motion Friendship Heights. For tickets, follow this link!

This fall, Christina performed in the classic Broadway Show West Side Story with Rockville Musical Theatre! She portrayed the role of Margarita, one of the Shark women and was featured in many of the dance numbers in the show.

Stay tuned for more information on her future performances with Rockville Musical Theatre!

Christina was a principal dancer with Metropolitan Ballet Theatre (MBT) in Rockville for 9 years. She appeared in The Nutcracker portraying many different roles, most significantly Sugar Plum Fairy and Snow Queen. She has also danced as Spanish Chocolate, Arabian Coffee, Chinese Tea, French Marzipan, Mother Silberhaus, and as a snowflake. Christina also performed with MBT as Princess Kristina in The Firebird, the Autumn Fairy in Cinderella, as a lead swan in Swan Lake, and in Coppelia and Alice's Wonderland .

In addition, Christina participated in a number of Outreach Programs with Metropolitan Ballet Theatre, including Athletics and the Dancer, a lecture/demonstration program.

In June of 2003, Christina Prete danced as a guest artist with the Virginia Civic Ballet in Marshall, Virginia, playing the title role in Cinderella.

Photo Gallery

Margaret Schweinhaut Senior Center - February 2009

Echo - December 2008

Summer Stock 2008 (under the direction of Doug Yeuell at Joy of Motion) - Sing Sing Sing (in the style of Bob Fosse) & Crapshooters Dance (from Guys & Dolls)