Christiana Marie Cecere is a native of Massachusetts where she trained for fifteen years at The Conservatory at Northeast School of Ballet under the tutelage of her mother, Denise Cecere (director), and grandmother, Sandra McNaught (founder).

In addition to training with Northeast School of Ballet’s renowned faculty, including her coach, Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, Christiana received additional summer training at The School of American Ballet, The Paris Opera Ballet School, and The Chautauqua Dance Institute. Upon graduation from the Northeast School of Ballet, Cecere accepted a contract with The Arles Youth Ballet Company in France under the direction of Norton Fantinel and Karina Moreira, and recently graduated from English National Ballet’s Trainee programme in London, England, directed by Viviana Durante.

Christiana has had the privilege to perform in a wide range of repertoire in her formative years. Classical ballets include Giselle, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, Raymonda, Paquita, Don Quixote and Cinderella. She has performed ballets by George Balanchine including, Who Cares, Raymonda Variations, and Walpurgisnacht Ballet. Christiana has also performed neo-classical and contemporary works by Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, Mark Godden, Patrick Delcroix, Arthur Pita, Sasha Janes, Joseph Jefferies, Anthony Williams, Gianni DiMarco, Michael Vernon, Jeremy Ruth Howes, Kara Wilkes My’Kal Stromile, Kin Sun Chan, Young Soon Hue, Norton Fantinel, James Pett, Travis Clausen-Knight among many other prominent choreographers.