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She continued her training with Victor Moreno and Alexei Yudenich from 1985 to 1987, and at the age of 12, she began studying at the Pennsylvania Ballet School. <br /> Ms. Amiss received an apprenticeship with Pennsylvania Ballet in 1992, and became a full member of the Corps de Ballet in 1993. In 1994, she was nominated for the prestigious dance accolade, the Princess Grace Award. Ms. Amiss was promoted to Soloist in August 1999, and also during that summer, she represented Pennsylvania Ballet at the Sintra Festival in Portugal. <br /> Ms. Amiss has had the pleasure of performing many principal roles in George Balanchine ballets including Marzipan lead, Dewdrop and Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker, Titania and Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and the Swan Queen in Swan Lake, Act II. She has also performed featured roles in such ballets as Carmina Burana, Paquita, Giselle, Paul Taylor’s Company B, and Balanchine’s Bugaku, Rubies, The Four Temperaments, Valse Fantasie, Western Symphony, and the Waltz Girl in Serenade. <br /> Ms. Amiss resides in Mantua, New Jersey, with her husband and fellow Soloist, Edward Cieslak.</p> <table> <tr> <td class="top"> <table class="zebra"> <tr> <td class="right">Website</td> <td> http://www.paballet.org/html/ac_amiss.asp </td> </tr> </table> </td> <td class="top pad_left three_column"> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> <td class="nopad top sidebar"> <div class="box_ads"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </div> <div class="box_cheese"> <div class="leader"> Account </div> You're not signed in. 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