Charles Flachs is an associate professor of ballet at Mount Holyoke College where he teaches all levels of ballet technique, pointe, pas de deux, repertory and dance history. Charles is the recipient of a choreographic fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council, and has choreographed for the Cincinnati Ballet Company, the Five-College Dance Department, Columbia College, University of Georgia Athens, Pennsylvania Academy of Ballet and for the bronze medal winner of the 1992Varna lnternational Ballet Competition. He has guest taught for the Pennsylvania Academy of Ballet, the Southeast Regional Ballet Association, the American College Dance Festival and Zurich Ballet, Switzerland. As a principal dancer he performed with Nashville Ballet, Louisville Ballet, Ballet West and Cincinnati Ballet. His repertoire included principal roles in Swan Lake, Giselle, Cinderella and Coppelia as well as ballets by Peter Anastos, John Butler, James Canfield, Val Caniparoli and Michael Smuin. Charles and his wife and colleague Rose Marie Wurzer, are founding members of the CORPS de Ballet International Inc., an organization devoted to the development of ballet in higher education.