Reka Gyulai received her professional training at the Hungarian Dance Academy in Budapest,
Hungary, where she was trained by prominent ballet figures including Imre Dozsa, Zoltan
Solymosi, and Mark Diamond. Reka was a finalist at the International Ballet Competition in
Vienna in 2004. In 2006, she received the prestigious Elvira Vecsei Prize and a Scholarship of
the Republic from the Hungarian Ministry of Education.
Ms. Gyulai has performed with the Hungarian National Ballet, Columbia Classical Ballet, Tulsa
Ballet, New Jersey Ballet Company, International Ballet Company, Dance Alive National Ballet
in Florida, Ballet Collective San Diego, Ballet Counterpointe, Pointeworks and California Ballet
Company in San Diego. She toured extensively with these companies to Russia, Transylvania,
Brazil, South France, Italy, Switzerland and throughout the United States. Her repertoire
includes principal roles in The Nutcracker, Cinderella, Wizard of Oz, Don Quixote, Walpurgis
Night, Swan Lake, Phantom of the Opera, and others, as well as contemporary works by Adam
Hougland, Edwaard Liang, Ashley Page, Marcello Angelini, Ma Cong, Kevin Jenkins, Jared
Nelson, Holly Curran, Luc Louis de Lairesse and Septime Webre.
Reka is also an emerging choreographer and has set works for Ballet Collective San Diego and
Pointeworks.