Brooke Gilliam is a company member with Atlanta Ballet where she has danced for six seasons. Originally from Boulder, CO, she began her training at the Colorado Conservatory of Dance under the direction of Julia Wilkinson Manley. At 16, after attending the summer intensive, she was offered a merit scholarship to the Conservatory Program at Atlanta Ballet. From there, Brooke was a part of Atlanta Ballet 2 for two seasons before her promotion to the main company in 2018. Since joining, some of her most noteworthy performances include Russian Girls in George Balanchine’s Serenade, The Shadow in Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s Coco Chanel, Life of a Fashion Icon, Alexander Ekman’s Cacti, demi-soloist in Yuri Possokhov’s Don Quixote, and Garrett Smith’s Corridors. She is thrilled to be a part of NCI 2024.