Stephanie Williams (born in

Newcastle, New South Wales Newcastle ( ; Awabakal: ) is a metropolitan area and the second most populated city in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It includes the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie local government areas, and is the hub of the Greater Newcastle ar ...

) is an Australian ballet dancer, a member of the corps de ballet of the

American Ballet Theatre American Ballet Theatre (ABT) is a classical ballet company based in New York City. Founded in 1939 by Lucia Chase and Richard Pleasant, it is recognized as one of the world's leading classical ballet companies. Through 2019, it had an annual ei ...

Dance career

Stephanie Williams started learning ballet with the

Marie Walton-Mahon Marie Walton-Mahon (born 14 September 1953) is an Australian ballet dancer, ballet teacher and adjudicator. She is the founder of National College of Dance, Marie Walton-Mahon Dance Academy and the founder of the Progressing Ballet Technique. ...

(founder & creator of

Progressing Ballet Technique Progressing Ballet Technique (PBT) is a program developed by Marie Walton-Mahon to help students advance in all dance forms by training muscle memory Muscle memory is a form of procedural memory that involves consolidating a specific motor task ...

) Dance Academy in Newcastle at the age of 8. She joined

The Australian Ballet The Australian Ballet 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 and direct ...

School and performed the double rôle of Odette and Odile in ''Swan Lake'' at her graduation performance in 2006. She then joined The Australian Ballet and was promoted to coryphée. She was a guest artist with

Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company Morphoses is a ballet company, co-founded in 2007 by Christopher Wheeldon and Lourdes Lopez. Morphoses is a guest resident company at the New York City Center and at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London. It was known as Morphoses/The Wheeldon Compan ...

at the

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in 2009. She won both the Telstra Ballet Dancer Award and Telstra People's Choice Award for 2009, the second dancer to win both awards. Williams joined the corps de ballet of the

Dutch National Ballet The Dutch National Ballet (Dutch: Het Nationale Ballet) is the official and largest ballet company in the Netherlands. History The Dutch National Ballet was formed in 1961 when the Amsterdam Ballet and the Nederlands Ballet merged. The company h ...

in 2011. In January 2012 she joined

as a member of the corps de ballet.

Selected repertoire

* Odette and Odile in

Graeme Murphy Graeme Lloyd Murphy AO (born 2 November 1950) is an Australian choreographer. With his fellow dancer (and wife since 2004) Janet Vernon, he guided Sydney Dance Company to become one of Australia's most successful and best-known dance companie ...

's ''Swan Lake'', 2006 * Idée fixe in Krzysztof Pastor's ''Symphonie fantastique'' * Maiden in

Alexei Ratmansky Alexei Osipovich Ratmansky (russian: Алексей Осипович Ратманский, born August 27, 1968) is a Russian-American choreographer and former ballet dancer. From 2004 to 2008 he was the director of the Bolshoi Ballet. He left Ru ...

's ''Firebird'', world première 2012

Awards

* Gold Medal, 10th Asian Pacific International Ballet Competition in Tokyo, 2005 * Telstra Ballet Dancer Award and People's Choice Award, 2009

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Williams, Stephanie Australian ballerinas Telstra Ballet Dancer Award winners Telstra People's Choice Award winners Living people People from Newcastle, New South Wales Year of birth missing (living people) American Ballet Theatre dancers