Interview With Diablo Ballet’s Artistic Director Lauren Jonas

photo by Tiffany Bertolami Fong and Michael Malerba

Artistic Director and Co-FounderLauren Jonas, trained at the Marin Ballet under Maria Vegh and Margaret Swarthout, and then studied under Sally Streets. She performed with the Milwaukee Ballet, the Oakland Ballet, the Southwest Ballet, and toured the United States with the Moscow Ballet, directed by the Bolshoi Ballet’s Vaslav Gordeyev. Since Diablo Ballet’s premiere on March 10, 1994, Ms. Jonas has recruited dancers from around the world to...