Robyn Hendricks is a South African ballet dancer who is a principal artist 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 ...
.
Biography
Hendricks grew up in
Port Elizabeth
Gqeberha ( , ), formerly named Port Elizabeth, and colloquially referred to as P.E., is a major seaport and the most populous city in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It is the seat of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipal ...
, South Africa. She started ballet late, at the age of eight, after her grandfather recognised her potential. She studied in the
Cecchetti method
The Cecchetti method is variously defined as a style of ballet and as a ballet training method devised by the Italian ballet master Enrico Cecchetti (1850–1928). The training method seeks to develop essential skills in dancers as well as stre ...
and qualified for the Cecchetti International Competition in
Melbourne
Melbourne ( , ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/ or ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city of the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Victori ...
in 2001, during which she was invited to audition for
The Australian Ballet School. While at the school, she studied with
The National Ballet School of Canada for four weeks. In 2005 she joined The Australian Ballet and was promoted soloist in 2011. She was promoted to senior artist in 2016 and named principal artist later the same year.
Hendricks is married to former fellow company member Charles Thompson.
Selected repertoire
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Jiří Kylián
Jiří Kylián (born 21 March 1947) is a Czech former dancer and contemporary dance choreographer. He is considered one of the greatest contemporary dance choreographers in Czech history.
Life
Jiří Kylián was born in 1947 in Prague, Czecho ...
's ''
Petite Mort'' (2005, 2014)
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Christopher Wheeldon
Christopher Peter Wheeldon (born 22 March 1973) is an English international choreographer of contemporary ballet.
Early life
Born in Yeovil, Somerset, to an engineer and a physical therapist, Wheeldon began training to be a ballet dancer at th ...
's ''After the Rain'' (2011)
* Gamzatti in
Stanton Welch
Stanton De Burgh Welch (born 1969) is an Australian dancer and choreographer. He is the artistic director of the Houston Ballet.
Early life
Welch was born in Melbourne to Marilyn Jones and Garth Welch, two prominent Australian dancers.
Care ...
’s ''
La Bayadère
''La Bayadère'' ("the temple dancer") ( ru. «Баядерка», ''Bayaderka'') is an 1877 ballet, originally staged in four acts and seven tableaux by the French choreographer Marius Petipa to music by Ludwig Minkus and libretto by . The ba ...
'' (2014)
References
External links
Cupcakes & Conversation with Robyn Hendricks ''
Ballet News
Ballet () is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. It has since become a widespread and highly technical form of ...
''. 24 June 2011.
Dancers of the Australian Ballet
South African ballerinas
South African ballet dancers
People from Gqeberha
1985 births
Living people
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