TRAINING & EDUCATION 1978–1983 Royal Ballet School Lower School 1983–1984 Royal Ballet School Upper School Diploma with Distinction 2014–2016 Royal Ballet School, Diploma of Dance Teaching 2014–2016 Trinity College London, Diploma in Dance Teaching and Learning (RQF Level 6) With Merit 2015–2016 Dance UK Mentoring Scheme: mentored by Jude Kelly (Artistic Director, Southbank Centre) and Louise Jeffreys (Director of Arts, Barbican Centre) 2017 Royal Opera House Shadowing assignment: Alex Beard, Chief Executive
EMPLOYMENT CURRENT 2019— Director of Dance, English National Ballet School 2017— Artistic Director, Viviana Durante Company
AS BALLET DANCER: 1984–2000 Royal Ballet Corps de ballet 1984-1987; Soloist 1987-1989; Principal 1989-1997; Principal Guest Artist 1997-2000 1990 Arena di Verona Guest Artist 1992 New York City Ballet Guest Artist 1993 Dutch National Ballet Guest Artist 1993–2002 Tokyo Ballet Guest Artist 1996–1998 Teatro dell’Opera, Roma Guest Artist 1998–1999 New National Theatre Ballet, Tokyo Guest Artist 1999 American Ballet Theater Principal Dancer 1999–2009 K-Ballet, Tokyo Principal Guest Artist 2000 English National Ballet Guest Artist 2000 Ballet de Santiago Guest Artist 2001–2002 San Carlo, Napoli Guest Artist 2002 Zurich Ballet Guest Artist 2002–2003 Teatro alla Scala, Milan Principal Guest Artist 2003–2004 Semperoper Ballet, Dresden Guest Artist 2005 Tulsa Ballet Guest Artist 2005–2006 Teatro Massimo, Palermo Guest Artist 2008 National Theatre, London Ballerina in Fram
REPERTOIRE INCLUDES: Giselle, Princess Aurora (The Sleeping Beauty), Odette/Odile (Swan Lake), Juliet (Romeo and Juliet), Cinderella, Sugar Plum Fairy (The Nutcracker), Kitri (Don Quixote), Anastasia, Manon, Mary Vetsera (Mayerling), Vera (A Month in the Country), My Brothers, My Sisters, Princess Rose (The Prince of the Pagodas), Symphonic Variations, Marie (Different Drummer), Lise (La fille mal gardée), Rhapsody, Ondine, Titania (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Les Biches, Raymonda, Nikiya (La Bayadère), Roxanne (Cyrano de Bergerac), Diana and Actaeon, Thaïs pas de deux, Sylvia, Apollo, Ballet Imperial, Stravinsky Violin Concerto, Who Cares?, Laurencia, La Ronde, Madame de Rênal (The Red and the Black), Carmen, Coppelia, Duke Ellington Ballet, Birthday Offering, Scènes de ballet, Requiem, Les Patineurs, Elite Syncopations, Symphony in C, Gloria, Anna Karenina.
ROLES CREATED INCLUDE: The Judas Tree (MacMillan), Irina in Winter Dreams (MacMillan), Fleur de Peux (McGregor), Pursuit (Page), Piano (Page), Bloodlines (Page), ...now languorous, now wild… (Page), Cheating, Lying, Stealing (Page), Present Histories (Tuckett), Tombeaux (Bintley), Cabiria (Amodio), 8:38 (De Frutos).
AS DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: 2018 Kenneth MacMillan: Steps Back in Time (Barbican Centre, The Pit) 2019 THREE/8:38/SEVEN (Wilton’s Music Hall)
AS TEACHER/COACH: 2005–2006 International Ballet Masterclasses, Prague 2006–2012 K-Ballet/K-Ballet School 2008–2019 Royal Ballet School Summer School 2009 English National Ballet School 2010 Prix de Lausanne 2016 Rambert School 2016 Art Of Ballet Masterclass, Madrid 2016 Principal Coaching, Anastasia, The Royal Ballet 2016 Principal Coaching, The Nutcracker, The Royal Ballet 2016 Principal Coaching, Swan Lake, ABT 2016–2017 Stagecraft Workshop, Royal Ballet School 2017 Principal Coaching, Sleeping Beauty, The Royal Ballet 2017 Mentor, BBC Young Dancer 2017 Principal Coaching, The Judas Tree, The Royal Ballet 2017 Principal Coaching, Romeo and Juliet, ABT 2017 Principal Coaching, The Nutcracker, The Royal Ballet 2018 Principal Coaching, Manon, The Royal Ballet 2018 Principal Coaching, Manon, ENB 2019 Principal Coaching, Romeo and Juliet, The Royal Ballet
AS CHOREOGRAPHER: 2010 Dance Base, Edinburgh Lamentoso 2011 Sadler’s Wells/National Theatre Studio (with Richard Eyre) Truly, Madly, Deeply
AS ACTRESS: 2002 Ogni 27 Agosto (lead in film dir. Antonio Serrano) 2005 Edinburgh Festival: Gertrude in Escaping Hamlet AS WRITER/CONSULTANT: 2018 Ballet: The Definitive Illustrated Story (DK)
AWARDS & HONOURS 1984 Prix de Lausanne 1989 Time Out Award 1989 Evening Standard Award 1990–2000 “Dancer of the Year” in the UK, Italy, Japan and Chile 1991 & 2002 Premio Positano 1993 Laurence Oliver Award: group award for The Judas Tree 1997 Premio Internazionale “Gino Tani” 1997 Laurence Olivier Award: nominated for Anastasia 2003 Premio Vignale danza 2006 Premio Bucchi 2007 Premio Apulia Arte 2018 Premio delle Eccelenze, Italy 2019 Premio Fabbrini, Florence BALLET RECORDINGS 1990 Die Fledermaus (Royal Opera House) 1991 Winter Dreams (Royal Ballet) 1993 George Balanchine Celebration (NYCB) 1993 Gala Tribute to Tchaikovsky (Royal Opera House) 1994 The Sleeping Beauty (Royal Ballet) 1994 Mayerling (Royal Ballet) 1999 Explosive Dance (Royal Albert Hall) 2000 Carmen (K-Ballet) 2002 Giselle (K-Ballet) 2003 Swan Lake (K-Ballet) 2003 The Sleeping Beauty (K-Ballet) TV AND RADIO (SELECTED) 1992 South Bank Show: Two Royal Ballet Dancers (LWT) 1994 Charlie Rose Show (PBS) 1997 The Nation’s Favourite Love Poem (BBC1) 2005 Toyota Commercial (Japan) 2016 Woman’s Hour (BBC Radio 4) 2016 In Tune (BBC Radio 3) 2016 Anastasia cinema relay 2017 BBC Young Dancer 2017 Music Matters (BBC Radio 3) 2017 Front Row (BBC Radio 4) 2018 Kenneth MacMillan documentary (BBC TV) 2018 In Tune (BBC Radio 3)
JURY MEMBER 2011 & 2016 Prix de Lausanne 2011 Ursula Moreton Choreographic Awards, Royal Ballet School 2016 English National Ballet Emerging Dancer 2016 & 2017 Hong Kong Ballet Group Stars Award 2016 Kenneth MacMillan Choreographic Award, Royal Ballet School 2019 Premio Marie Taglioni, Modena 2017 & 2019 Beijing International Ballet Competition
PATRON & BOARDS 1995— Patron, The Hammond School 2014— Patron, New English Ballet Theatre 2015-2017 Member, Development Board, One Dance UK