Artistic Leadership
Marcia Dale Weary, CPYB Artistic Director, began her teaching career in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1955 after her own studies with Thalia Mara and Arthur Mahoney at the School of Ballet Repertory in New York City. Her unequaled dedication to her school, students, and instructors, and her unique teaching style have brought the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet to the top of the dance field. The New York Times stated in 1989 that Weary is “considered one of the country’s foremost ballet teachers.” Ms. Weary is the 2007 recipient of the Pennsylvania Governor’s Award for the Arts for her Outstanding Leadership and Service to Youth. Ms. Weary is also the 1992 recipient of the Distinguished Service to the Arts Award for Central Pennsylvania. In February 2000, Ms. Weary became the first recipient of the Carlisle Regional Arts Award. She and the CPYB have been featured in leading newspapers and magazines, television news and features, and in the award-winning documentary film presented on national public television, Children with a Dream.
Darla Hoover, CPYB Associate Artistic Director, was trained at the renowned Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet under the direction of Marcia Dale Weary and completed her studies on a full scholarship at the School of American Ballet. In 1980, after choreographing a solo for her in the New York City Opera production of Bourgeois Gentilhomme, George Balanchine invited Darla to become a member of his New York City Ballet. From 1980-1991, Ms. Hoover appeared as a featured soloist in ballets such as Balanchine’s La Valse, Chaconne, Harlequinade, Ballo della Regina, as well as Peter Martins’ Eight Easy Pieces, Rossini Quartets, Sonata di Scarlatti, and Jerome Robbins’ Fanfare. Ms. Hoover has now focused her attentions to teaching and staging ballets. In addition to her positions as the Associate Artistic Director of the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet and Associate Artistic Director of Ballet Academy East’s graded children’s program in Manhattan, Ms. Hoover guest teaches all over the world. Working as a distinguished répétiteur, Ms. Hoover stages works for the George Balanchine Trust and for Peter Martins, Ballet Master-in-Chief of the New York City Ballet. Recent stagings have included George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker™, Raymonda Variations, Serenade, Divertimento #15, Valse Fantaisie, Allegro Brillante, Stars and Stripes and Rubies as well as Peter Martins’ Eight Easy Pieces and Fearful Symmetries.
Alan Hineline, CPYB Resident Choreograher. Dynamic, spontaneous, witty and exciting are only a few of the adjectives that have been used to describe the work of Ballet Philippines artistic director. A sought-after choreographer and ballet master, Hineline’s work has appeared in the repertories of many companies in North America and has been received enthusiastically in performances around the globe.
In 1997, at the invitation of artistic director Marcia Dale Weary, Hineline was named resident choreographer for the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet. During his tenure he has created numerous ballets for this internationally acclaimed school and company. His body of work can be seen in the repertories of American Ballet Theatre Studio Company, Pennsylvania Ballet, Atlanta Ballet, Dayton Ballet, Kansas City Ballet, The Juilliard Dance Ensemble, Sacramento Ballet, Alabama Ballet, Ballet Concierto de Cuba, and Utah Regional Ballet, among many others. His work has been performed at the New York International Ballet Competition, the Aoyama International Ballet Festival in Tokyo, Japan and the International Ballet Competition in Jackson, Mississippi.
As a teacher Mr. Hineline has instructed every level of dancer, from beginner through professional. He is part of the faculty of the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet and has been a guest faculty member for among others, Ballet Academy East, The Juilliard School, Atlanta Ballet, Kansas City Ballet, Richmond Ballet, Alabama Ballet, and the Utah Regional Ballet. Along with these fine schools he has taught at the Jackson International Ballet Competition, the Aoyama Ballet Festival, and numerous Regional Dance America (RDA) festivals and at colleges and universities across the United States. In 2008 he was a faculty member of the Jacob’s Pillow Summer Dance Festival.
As a dancer his career spanned a broad spectrum of traditions and styles. Hineline trained primarily in Dayton, Ohio with Dance Theatre Dayton and Dayton Contemporary Dance Company and afterwards with Milton Myers and David Howard. His company affiliations ranged from the classical with Eglevsky Ballet and Nashville Ballet to modern with Joyce Trisler Danscompany and Michael Mao Dance to post-modern with Laura Dean Dancers and Musicians.
Mr. Hineline sits on the national advisory board of Regional Dance America and, for that organization, has served as an adjudicator for several regions and as artistic director for the Craft of Choreography Conference. Hineline is the founder and director of the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet’s choreographic initiative, Choreoplan. Among his many awards are the Choo-San Goh Award for Choreography from the Choo-San Goh and H. Robert Magee Foundation and multiple National Choreography Awards from Regional Dance America.
