Janet Panetta looks back on an extraordinary career in American Ballet Theatre, as well a broad experience of contemporary dance forms. She danced with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, The New York City Ballet Lecture Program and American Ballet Theatre. Changing venues she continued performing in modern and post modern companies such as Paul Sanasardo, Neil Greenberg, Nancy Alfaro, Robert Kovitch and Jerome Bel. She has been called, “one of the best performers in fifty years” by Jennifer Dunning of the New York Times. Deborah Jowitt of the Village Voice has said, “Panetta always dances like a woman of the world, elegant and slightly sad.” “Superbly powerful performance... She has a knowing, smoldering stage presence that is galvanic.” New York Times. Janet has trained dancers in many of the major ballet and modern American companies such as American Ballet Theatre, Paul Taylor, Cunningham, Limon and Trisha Brown. She has also been a guest teacher for many companies in France, Belgium, Holland, Germany and Sweden. She maintains a connection to Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, Impulstanz Vienna, Ballet Cullberg and P.A.R.T.S. school in Brussels, while still teaching in NYC at The New School, and Gibney Center.