Ingrid Kottke | Canada's Royal Winnipeg Ballet

Ingrid Kottke PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER

Ingrid is delighted to be back for her fourth season with Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet. Ingrid would like to dedicate this season to her mother, Marlene K.E. Kottke who supports her throughout her career and lets her daughter call her mum at all hours of the day in tears and in joy.

Ingrid also plays an active role in Peter Quanz’ Q Dance projects and was proud to accompany Peter to Ottawa in 2010 to the Canada Dance Festival in Ottawa at the NAC with In Tandem.

Recently, Ingrid was traveling the high seas as stage and production manager for the Royal Caribbean International cruise line. She has visited many sites in the Caribbean, Alaska, Mexican Riviera, South Pacific, Australia and New Zealand. Ingrid has been "on the road" stage managing national tours of Grease, Chicago The Musical, Jesus Christ Superstar, CATS, Starlight Express, West Side Story and even stage managed a production of 42nd Street in Moscow, Russia.

Ingrid fulfilled the duties of stage and company manager for the Alberta Ballet for the 1989/90 and 1990/91 seasons. She travelled to Phoenix, Arizona to participate in Ballet Arizona’s Nutcracker and Spring program in 1991/92 and returned to Alberta Ballet for the Nutcracker in 1992.

Ingrid is an avid motorcyclist and returns to Winnipeg after spending her summer vacation traveling the winding roads of Alberta and British Columbia. She has completed a 2004 rally from Mexico to Kelowna, British Columbia in four days on her R1200 BMW and a 1999 rally from Mexico to Medicine Hat, Alberta on her 650 Honda Nighthawk. Ingrid also spends time underwater and swam with dolphins in the Red Sea during a scuba diving trip to Egypt.

The travel bug hit her early and was an asset after graduating from the Theatre Production Department at Grant McEwan College in Edmonton, Alberta in 1987 and a stage management internship at the Banff Centre of Fine Arts in 1987/88. Ever since, she has gone where the work is and has visited every state in the union and every province in Canada (and one Territory).