Kirsten Bloom Allen


Kirsten Bloom Allen is an American ballet dancer, actress and founder for ARC Entertainment Company, who appeared in multiple Sacramento Ballet productions, including A Streetcar Named Desire, Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake, Dracula, The Taming of the Shrew, and The Nutcracker.

Personal life

Allen was born in Cleveland, Ohio and grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. She began dancing when she was 5 years old. At age 10, her family moved to Florida, living in Tampa and Melbourne. Allen was an intern before she started dancing professionally with the Orlando Ballet when she was 16. She graduated from Melbourne High School and relocated to California when she was 21. Allen moved to Rancho Santa Fe, California in 2009.

Career

In 1987, Allen sang "We Are the World" at an anti-nuclear event at Port Canaveral. In 1993, she starred as Juliet in a production of Romeo and Juliet at Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, reprising the role in 2000 for the Sacramento Ballet.
In 2015, Allen portrayed Daisy Buchanan in a production of The Great Gatsby at San Diego State University and worked on the choreographed duet Beyond the Barre: Beer and Ballet influenced by Samson and Delilah in 2016.
In 2019, Allen performed at the Music Box San Diego with Brian Justin Crum for a Valentine's Day event. She started her own production company, ARC Entertainment Company, a cross between ballet, cinema, and rock music. Her company produced original suicide prevention videos for the songs "A Reason to Fight" and "The Sound of Silence" by Disturbed.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Allen lived with two other dancers so they could continue to practice dancing, perform backyard ballets, and host online dance classes through Zoom. During the Russo-Ukrainian war in 2022, she supplied a fellow dancer with medical supplies and food overseas to help destitute people.

Sacramento Ballet

Previously with the Southern Ballet Theatre and Suzanne Farrell Ballet, Allen joined the Sacramento Ballet in 1995, starring in many productions. In the late 1990s, Allen portrayed Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Dulcinea del Toboso in Don Quixote, and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire.
In the 2000s, Allen portrayed Lucy Westenra in Dracula, Princess Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty, Florence Foster Jenkins in Souvenir, Odette in a production of Swan Lake, Kate in The Taming of the Shrew, and the titular character in Giselle. In 2007, she wore clothing by Oscar de la Renta as part of a ballet fashion show in Fresno, California. In 2009, Allen left the Sacramento Ballet on maternity leave. She returned in 2013 for a performance as the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker.