Daniel Gaudiello (born 1982) is an Australian ballet dancer. He performed with

The Australian Ballet The Australian Ballet (TAB) is the largest classical ballet company in Australia. It was founded by J. C. Williamson Theatres Ltd and the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust in 1962, with the English-born dancer, teacher, repetiteur a ...

from 2004 until his retirement as a principal artist in March 2016 to dance and teach as a freelancer.

Dance career

Daniel Gaudiello began dance lessons aged six, studying at the Johnny Young Talent School and the Promenade Dance Studio in Brisbane. He then attended The Australian Ballet School during which time he was an exchange student with the National Ballet School of Canada and the

School of American Ballet The School of American Ballet (SAB) is the associate school of the New York City Ballet, a ballet company based at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. The school trains students from the age of six, with professional voc ...

. He joined The Australian Ballet in 2004 and was promoted to soloist in 2007. He was promoted to principal artist in 2010, at the same time as his wife Lana Jones. He won the Telstra Ballet Dancer Award for 2007 and was guest artist with the

English National Ballet English National Ballet is a classical ballet company founded by Dame Alicia Markova and Sir Anton Dolin as London Festival Ballet and based in London, England. Along with The Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Northern Ballet and Scott ...

for performances of '' Le Spectre de la Rose'' in London and Barcelona, 2009. Since leaving The Australian Ballet, Gaudiello has performed as guest artist with the

Royal New Zealand Ballet The Royal New Zealand Ballet is a ballet company based in Wellington, New Zealand. It was originally known as The New Zealand Ballet Company. History New Zealand Ballet was established in 1953 as an independent charitable trust by Royal Danis ...

, dancing Count Albrecht in ''

Giselle ''Giselle'' ( , ), originally titled ''Giselle, ou les Wilis'' (; ''Giselle, or The Wilis''), is a romantic ballet () in two acts with music by Adolphe Adam. Considered a masterwork in the classical ballet performance canon, it was first perfor ...

'' in 2016 and Don José in ''

Carmen ''Carmen'' () is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first performed by the O ...

'' in 2017.

Selected repertoire

* Des Grieux and Lescaut in

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's ''Manon'', 2014 and 2008 * Petrouchka in ''Petrouchka'', 2009 * Franz in ''Coppélia'', 2010 * Basilio in ''Don Quixote'', 2010 * Camille in

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's ''The Merry Widow'', 2011 * Romeo and Mercutio in

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's ''Romeo and Juliet'', 2011 * Red Knight in

Ninette de Valois Dame Ninette de Valois (born Edris Stannus; 6 June 1898 – 8 March 2001) was an Irish-born British dancer, teacher, choreographer, and director of classical ballet. Most notably, she danced professionally with Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russ ...

' ''Checkmate'', 2011 * Lensky in

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's '' Onegin'', 2012 * Albrecht in ''

'', Queensland Ballet, 2013 * The Prince in

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's ''

Cinderella "Cinderella", or "The Little Glass Slipper", is a Folklore, folk tale with thousands of variants that are told throughout the world.Dundes, Alan. Cinderella, a Casebook. Madison, Wis: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988. The protagonist is a you ...

'', 2013 * Prince Désiré in

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's ''

Sleeping Beauty "Sleeping Beauty" (, or ''The Beauty Sleeping in the Wood''; , or ''Little Briar Rose''), also titled in English as ''The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods'', is a fairy tale about a princess curse, cursed by an evil fairy to suspended animation in fi ...

'', 2015

Choreography

* ''Tristan and Isolde'' for Bodytorque.Muses, 2011 * ''South of Eden'' for Bodytorque.a la Mode, 2010

Awards

* Australian Dance Awards, Outstanding Performance by a Male Dancer, 2011 for Franz in ''Coppelia'' * Telstra Ballet Dancer Award, 2007

References

Australian male ballet dancers Dancers of the Australian Ballet Living people Entertainers from Brisbane Telstra Ballet Dancer Award winners 1982 births {{ballet-stub