Dalia Rawson is proud to have been a member of Ballet San Jose (formerly Cleveland Ballet) from 1991 to 2005. A native of Saratoga, California, Dalia has enjoyed a wide variety of roles with the company. Miss Rawson particularly enjoys dancing Maria and Tsarina in Dennis Nahat's The Nutcracker with Michael Doerner, Swanhilda in Coppélia, the Pigtail Girl in Graduation Ball, the Cowgirl in Martha Graham's Rodeo, and the Pianist in Flemming Flindt's The Lesson.

Miss Rawson has appeared on television in The Drew Carey Show, and in the PBS production of Dennis Nahat's Blue Suede Shoes.

Prior to joining Ballet San Jose Silicon Valley, she studied with Gloria Vauges Mohr at the International Ballet School in Campbell and trained at both San Francisco Ballet School and The Joffrey Ballet School. In 1991 she received a first level award from the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts.

Dalia would like to thank her parents, Eric and Zivile Rawson, her teacher Gloria Mohr, and her husband Gareth Hughes for their inexhaustable support.

Ms. Rawson is now Ballet Mistress in the Ballet San Jose School, teaching caractere and ballet in the Professional Division, adult classes, as well as choreographing for all levels of the Professional Division.