Alecia Good-Boresow

Alecia Good-Boresow, former director of the Kansas City Youth Ballet, returned to her roots in Carlisle to join the faculty of Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet in 2011. Ms. Good-Boresow began her dancing career with Marcia Dale Weary at the age of five and went on to study at the School of American Ballet, Joffrey, and the Pennsylvania Ballet before joining the Kansas City Ballet in 1983 under the directorship of Todd Bolender. Ms. Good-Boresow danced with the Kansas City Ballet for 13 years as a principal dancer performing numerous lead roles in the Nutcracker, Coppélia, and Sleeping Beauty. In addition, Ms. Good-Boresow danced principal roles in George Balanchine’s Firebird, Concerto Barocco, Apollo, and Western Symphony. Ms. Good has been featured in several Hallmark Ballerina calendars as well as in Who’s Who in America’s Teachers. Ms. Good-Boresow has taught in the CPYB 5-Week Summer Ballet Program for the past 19 years, the Kansas City Ballet, Miller-Marley School of Dance, Shari Shell-True Dance Academy in Lincoln, Nebraska, and Dance St. Louis summer programs.