Carrie Ruth Trumbo

Carrie Ruth Trumbo is a native Floridian, and received her formal training at the Orlando Ballet School.  Upon graduating, she spent a season as a trainee with Charlotte Ballet studying with Patricia McBride and Mark Diamond. The following year she joined Tulsa Ballet’s second company, where she spent two seasons before being promoted to the main company in 2011. While with Tulsa Ballet, Carrie Ruth performed repertoire by Twyla Tharp, Ronald Hynd, George Balanchine, Ben Stevenson, Edwaard Liang, and John Cranko. She then joined Ballet Des Moines in its inaugural season, where she performed soloist roles in a variety of original works, most notably Within The Bodies and Angeli, both by Ma Cong. She also danced with American Contemporary Ballet in Los Angeles for their 2014 summer season. In 2016, Carrie Ruth returned to Oklahoma where she danced with Oklahoma City Ballet for five seasons. Some favorite performance opportunities include Septime Webre’s Alice (in Wonderland), Agnes DeMille’s Rodeo, First Theme in Balanchine’s The Four Temperaments, Holiday Wife and Bride in Michael Pink’s Dracula, Russian demi-soloist in Balanchine’s Serenade, and Ryan Jolicoeur-Nye’s Separation.

Carrie Ruth discovered her interest in choreography through OKCB’s Future Voices production, for which she was selected to create two original works, You See What You Look For and Whistling in The Dark.