Our Faculty

Christopher Fellows, Ballet Master

Christopher Fellows was born in Ithaca, New York where he trained with Ithaca Ballet in his early years.  He began intensive study in the Vaganova syllabus under the tutelage of Rafael Grigorian in 1991. He also attended The School of American Ballet on scholarship from 1993-1995. While at SAB he participated in lecture demonstration programs, Annual Workshops and the 1993 New Choreography Workshop. He received additional summer training from Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet and the Chautauqua Festival Dancers.

At the age of 15 he was invited to apprentice with the Chautauqua Ballet Company, dancing in ballets by George Balanchine and Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, among others. He became a dancer with Alabama Ballet under the direction of Dame Sonia Arova in 1995, remaining with the company until joining Joffrey Ballet of Chicago in 1998. After 4 seasons with Joffrey Ballet he moved to Milwaukee Ballet, where he served as a dancer, union representative, member of multiple board subcommittees and organizer of the Behind the Curtain dancer’s fund benefit performance. 

During his career, he danced principal roles in many ballets, including Romeo & Juliet, Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Dracula, Giselle, Carmina Burana, The Taming of the Shrew, and The Moor’s Pavane. He also had original works created on him by contemporary and classical choreographers such as Lee Wei Chao, Foye DuBose, Rafael Grigorian, Michael Pink, Kathryn Posin, Margot Sappington, Thor Sutowski, Nelly Van Bommel and Petr Zahradnicek. He has toured internationally and been a guest artist for various schools and companies around the United States.

He retired from active performance in 2008 to pursue his lifelong passion for teaching ballet. He served as Director of the Classical Ballet Division at Dance FX Academy in Toledo, Ohio from 2008-2014. Over the course of his career, he has taught for Alabama School of Fine Arts, Milwaukee Ballet School, Danceworks Milwaukee, Point Park University, Yanlai Dance Academy and Huntingdon Dance Academy.  He has also been a guest instructor for Ithaca Ballet, Rafael Grigorian Ballet Theater, and Illinois Youth Dance Academy. In August of 2016, he graduated summa cum laude from Point Park University with a Bachelor of Arts in ballet pedagogy.

Mr. Fellows lives in Pittsburgh with his family, where he teaches the Korean Martial Art of Tang Soo Do in addition to his ballet classes. It is his dream to nurture and inspire a new generation of dancers with a strong sense of artistry, technique, and self.

Patricia Hohman, Instructor

Patricia Hohman is a Pittsburgh native and received her early years of training at Pittsburgh Ballet House with Kwang-Suk Choi and Sae-Young Kang. She then attended the Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington, D.C. on full scholarship from 2017-2019, studying the Vagonova method under Stanislav Belyaevsky, Evgenia Singur, and Anastasia Dunets. While with the Kirov, she was one of 4 dancers chosen to perform with the Mariinsky Theatre in their production of La Bayadère at the Kennedy Center. 

 Returning home to Pittsburgh, she began training at West Point Ballet in the Cuban method. She competed in the Youth American Grand Prix and became a finalist, competing with a self-choreographed contemporary piece. Patricia taught Adult Ballet classes at West Point during this time. 

 Upon her high school graduation in 2021, Patricia furthered her training at Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre's Graduate Program under Susan Jaffe. 

 In 2022, she traveled to London to be a trainee of The English National Ballet under Viviana Durante. She studied with Ibrahim Önal, Julia Ellis, and Ivan Putrov. Patricia also had the opportunity to work with choreographers including Katarzyna Kozielska, Mauro de Candia, Kristina Paulin, and Dickson Mbi. After formal choreography training, she participated in a composer collaboration project. The piece was performed at London's Royal Albert Hall, and Patricia was both a dancer and lead choreographer. She danced in the international GradPro competition held at the Royal Ballet, competing with a self-choreographed contemporary piece in addition to her classical work. She was one of 14 dancers who qualified for the Final Round at Elmhurst Ballet in Birmingham, England. She was the first ever American finalist. Patricia graduated from the English National Ballet Professional Trainee Programme in 2023. She now is furthering her training at the Classical Dance Academy of Pittsburgh with Mr. Christopher Fellows. 

 She is passionate about sharing her love of music and movement through teaching, with experience working with dancers of all ages.