Click here to read Cynthia Perry's feature on Company dancer Kiara Felder, "Ballerina steps up as holiday classic sets higher bar," for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Plus, find out the two roles she will be performing for the first time in this year's Atlanta Ballet's Nutcracker, which opens December 1, 2014!

BRANT SANDERLIN. Kiara Felder and dance partner John Welker rehearse the Arabian variation in Atlanta Ballet’s “Nutcracker.” (BRANT SANDERLIN / BSANDERLIN@AJC.COM)