Abbey Centers joined The Tallahassee Ballet as a Junior Dancer in 2009 and is a recipient of both the Helen Salter Scholarship and the Ken Cashin Scholarship, awarded by The Tallahassee Ballet Board of Directors. She has performed in productions of Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, An Evening of Music and Dance, In Performance, The Nutcracker, Paquita and Other Works, Rapunzel, Swan Lake and Other Works, Bernstein and Gershwin, The Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

 

Her lead and featured roles include Clara, Marzipan, Tea, Columbine, Automaton, and Chocolate in The Nutcracker; Pas de Trois Variation in Paquita; Diamond Fairy, Canary Fairy, and Princess Florine in The Sleeping Beauty; Waltz Pas de Deux from Kathryn Cashin's Three Dances; Dance of the Little Swans in Swan Lake; and the title role in Cinderella.

 

Centers has attended summer intensives with Orlando Ballet, Richmond Ballet, the Harid Conservatory, and Florida State University (FSU) School of Dance, and she served as a resident assistant for the Orlando Ballet School’s summer intensive. Outside of dance, she is pursuing a Master of Science degree in computer science at FSU and works full-time as an application developer at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. Centers has been promoted to Demi-Soloist for the 25-26 Season.