Born in London, Miko has received worldwide recognition for her dancing. She was awarded the Gold Medal at the Moscow International Ballet Competition in 2013. At Varna International Ballet Competition in Bulgaria, she won Silver Medal in 2014 and Bronze Medal in 2012. At the Prix de Lausanne in Switzerland, she was recognized as the best Swiss dancer in 2013. In the US, she won Bronze at the New York finals of the Youth America Grand Prix in 2010 and Gold Medals at the World Ballet Competition in 2009 and 2011.

Miko has trained classical ballet with Tatiana Pali, Alyona Yakovleva-Randall, Alexei Moskalenko, and Sergey Sergiev at the Indiana Ballet Conservatory. Between 2008-2010, Miko returned to London three times to train at the Royal Ballet School’s International Summer Program where she danced solo roles in the final performance and received the Commendation Award each year. She has also attended summer intensives on scholarship at San Francisco Ballet School, American Ballet Theater, Kirov Academy of Ballet, and Rock School. In 2015, Miko joined the Birmingham Royal Ballet.

Miko has been invited to perform soloist repertoires in galas such as “YAGP Stars of Today meet Stars of Tomorrow Gala”, “Lausanne Gala” in Japan, “Evening with the Stars” with Indianapolis City Ballet, “Aberdeen International Youth Festival” in Scotland, “An Evening of Stars” with National Ballet of Denver, “International Ballet Festival” in Miami, and many others. She has also been invited back to perform the role of Sugar Plum Fairy for the Chula Vista Ballet for three consecutive years.

Miko was one of 6 dancers featured in the award winning ballet documentary "First Position".

Miko is active on social media with over 290,000 followers on Instagram and 20 million views on Youtube and was listed as one of “The Most Influential People of 2011” in the Dance Spirit Magazine. She started teaching in 2016 and has held workshops in Thailand, Japan, and Australia.

Afterwards, Miko decided to change directions and pursue science. She is currently an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley majoring in Integrative Biology and researching therapies for malignant brain tumors in the Brain Tumor Center at UCSF.

Shane Wuerthner is an esteemed figure in the world of ballet, having enjoyed a successful career

as a professional dancer before transitioning to leadership roles in the industry.

His career trajectory is a testament to his talent, dedication, and vision for the future of ballet.

Shane's dance journey began at The Kirov Academy of Ballet, where he graduated top of his class

in 2004. His exceptional skill and artistry were recognised by several prestigious companies,

including San Francisco Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Boston Ballet, The Royal Danish Ballet,

and Vienna State Ballet.

Shane accepted the offer from Vienna State Ballet and joined as a corps de ballet member in

2005. His talent did not go unnoticed, and he rose through the ranks to become a soloist.

In 2012, he made a significant move to The San Francisco Ballet as a soloist, showcasing his

ability to adapt and excel in different environments.

In 2014, Shane joined Queensland Ballet as a Soloist, and his unwavering commitment and

consistent performances led to his promotion to Principal in 2015. However, his ambitions

extended beyond performance, and he retired from ballet in 2017 to begin a career as a fitness

professional.

His knowledge of dancer conditioning and passion for fitness quickly made him a sought-after

figure in this field. Notably, he was named Personal Trainer of the Year before he had even

completed a whole year as a trainer. Shane's experience in fitness led him to establish Athletistry

Personal Training, a venture that focused on adult ballet coaching and holistic movement

practices.

Building on the success of this venture, he launched Athletistry Studio, which marked his return

to the ballet world in a directorship capacity. As Artistic Director of Athletistry Studio, Shane

brought his unique perspective as a former professional dancer and fitness professional, resulting

in a holistic approach to training and performance.

In 2022, Shane took Athletistry into the digital realm, shifting to online coaching. This move

demonstrated his ability to adapt to the changing landscape of the arts and fitness industries. The

venture quickly gained traction, growing a social media following of nearly 80k across platforms

from September 2022 onwards.

Today, Athletistry reaches an international audience with coaching, workshops, and guidance in

ballet and fitness, a testament to Wuerthner's leadership, vision, and commitment to the art of

ballet.

Jessica trained at the Australian Ballet School and holds an Advanced Diploma of Dance

(2003). She has danced as a company artist with The Australian Ballet and Sydney Dance

Company, touring extensively throughout Australia, Europe, the UK, the USA, South

America and New Zealand. In 2011 she was awarded an Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant to

undertake artistic development in Europe and India. Her performance repertoire is vast

and includes works by George Balanchine, Rudolph Nureyev, Krzysztof Pastor, Kenneth

McMillan, Stanton Welsh, Rafael Bonachela, Graeme Murphy, Stephanie Lake, Alexander

Ekman, Gideon Obarzanek, Lee Serle, Gabrielle Nankivell, Alice Topp and Jacopo Godani.

In 2023 she performed as a guest artist with The Australian Ballet as part of their 60th

birthday celebration seasons in Melbourne and Sydney. She also collaborated Yuiko

Masukawa in creation and performance of her work “Yugen” for Frame festival in

Melbourne. She is committed to honesty and sustainability in her relationship to

environment, community and history through the expressive capacity the body and

approaches dancing as medium for embodied presence offering endless possibilities for

intimacy, freedom and human connection.

In 1997 Hayley joined the Southern Ballet Company as a fulltime dancer performing in numerous productions in classical ballet and contemporary.During this time Hayley discovered a love for teaching and a particular passion for RAD. After three years dancing full time she decided to pursue a career in this field. Hayley gained qualifications at Distinction level with the Royal

Academy of Dance, British Ballet Organization and the New Zealand Association of Modern Dance and has successfully entered thousands of students in their Ballet, Jazz and Contemporary examinations. Hayley’s Royal Academy of dancing Mentor was Lorraine Peters QSM and life member of the RAD. There is no doubt that the exceptional qualities required to be a ballet teacher have been passed down and instowed in Hayley. The results of all her successful RAD examination students clearly show her eye for detail and precision.

As well as teaching full time Hayley is an examiner for the New Zealand Association of Modern Dance and is an experienced dance competition adjudicator, which takes her to many places across New Zealand.

In 2005 Hayley established special training groups for gifted and dedicated modern dance students and each year directed and produced many productions and shows for the Christchurch public. From the experience gained from these performance groups Hayley has had students go on to pursue professional careers in the commercial dance industry. She has also choreographed many solos and troupe dances for local and national competitions as well as television performances for What Now and local television. Hayley has guest tutored for different societies, schools and competitions and last year she thoroughly enjoyed being the tutor for all of the Christchurch children involved in the Royal New Zealand Ballet’s production of The Nutcracker.

​Hayley is very passionate about passing on her love and knowledge of dance to students and thrives on seeing them pursue their dancing ambitions no matter how big or small.

Camille received her dance training in Johannesburg South Africa.

She won the Outstanding Contemporary Dancer Award at the Youth America Grand Prix (2007), the Junior Contemporary Division at the South African International Ballet Competition and second prize in the Junior Girls Division at the Helsinki International Ballet Competition (2009).

Camille joined the Royal Ballet in 2010 and was promoted to First Artist in 2015. Her repertory includes Entertainer (The Invitation), White Cat (The Sleeping Beauty), Arabian dance (The Nutcracker), pas de six (Giselle) and a principal role in Infra. Camille had a pas de deux created for her by Tamara Rojo and also had roles created on her in Wayne McGregor’s Carbon Life and Woolf Works,

Christopher Wheeldon’s Corybantic Games and Crystal Pite’s Flight Pattern (which received the Olivier Award for New Dance Production).

Camille performed as the principal dancer in Inala (choreographed by world renowned choreographer and director Mark Baldwin) alongside Grammy award winners Ladysmith Black Mambazo at the Edinburgh Festival in August 2014 and at Sadlers Wells in July 2015. She performed with the cast of Inala in The Royal Variety Performance in December 2014.

Camille graduated from the Royal Academy of Dance Professional Dancers’ Teaching Course with a distinction in August 2018. She also completed the Guildhall's course for Core Skills in Executive Coaching and Mentoring in August 2019. She received her Progressing Ballet Technique qualification in May 2021.

She joined Company Wayne McGregor from January 2019-March 2020. She toured with the company all over the world and performed in pieces such as Autobiography, Far and Outlier.

Camille has founded Ballet & Coaching by Camille which provides first-rate ballet coaching, stretch classes, masterclasses and life coaching. She has also launched Ballet Base-an app that provides you with all of your dancing needs. Camille has taught for international companies including Company Wayne McGregor, Joburg Ballet and Cape Town City Ballet.

James Wilton

Artistic Director / Choreographer / Producer

James Wilton Dance was founded in 2010.

The company has won awards at the Bern, Hannover and MASDANZA International Choreography competitions and the Sadler’s Wells Global Dance Contest.

The company’s first full evening work Last Man Standing (2014) was performed 78 times and won an award at the Bern Tanzprize in Switzerland. Subsequent productions LEVIATHAN (2016) and The Storm (2018) toured even more extensively, achieving close to 200 performances between them, including sold out runs at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, performances in Germany, Gibraltar, Austria, Peru, Spain, Poland and Sweden. LEVIATHAN was nominated for best dance production at the Manchester Theatre Awards.

James Wilton has created works for Scottish Dance Theatre, Konzert Theater Bern, Theater Münster, Opera Graz, Ballet Hagen and dance company Giessen and has choreographed a work for 50 professional dancers for performances at Millennium and Wembley Stadiums (reaching over 110,000 people in the process).

James Wilton Dance is based in Cornwall, and has been commissioned by more than a dozen venues across the UK, with long term partnerships to create work for the audiences of Hall for Cornwall, Blackpool Grand and DanceEast, among others. Its works have been part of the Rural Touring for Dance Initiative 2017-19, and the upcoming production of iRobot is supported by Applause Rural Touring.

Extensive education work has always gone hand-in-hand with its performance programme, and is central to its mission.

Australian dancer Leanne Benjamin is a former Principal of The Royal Ballet. She joined The Royal Ballet School at the age of 16 and graduated into Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet (later Birmingham Royal Ballet) in 1983. In 1992 she joined The Royal Ballet as a First Soloist and was promoted to Principal at the end of her first Season. Benjamin retired at the end of the 2012/13 Season, after 20 years as a Principal with The Royal Ballet. In 2005 she received an OBE in recognition of her services to dance.

Benjamin was born in Rockhampton in Queensland, Australia, and began dancing at the age of three. After training locally she followed her older sister to study at The Royal Ballet School, and while at the School won the 1980 Adeline Genée gold medal and the 1981 Prix de Lausanne. At Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet she was promoted to principal in 1987; the following year she joined London Festival Ballet as a principal and in 1990 joined Deutsche Oper Ballet.

Benjamin’s wide repertory included Juliet, Manon, the Firebird and Odette/Odile (Swan Lake), among many others, and creating new roles for choreographers including Alastair Marriott, Wayne McGregor, Alexei Ratmansky and Christopher Wheeldon. She was one of the last dancers of The Royal Ballet to work with Ninette de Valois, Frederick Ashton and Kenneth MacMillan. Her final performance at the Royal Opera House was as Mary Vetsera in Mayerling on 15 June 2013, a role she first danced with the Company on 10 November 1992. She was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 2016.

A highly accomplished ballet dancer with recent international experience, Kase has been performing professionally with Ballet de l’Opera National de Bordeaux in France for eleven years. He grew up in Christchurch learning tap dance and classical ballet from age five. Following ten years of competing throughout New Zealand and Australia on the competition circuit, Kase was offered a one-yearscholarship to the Australian Ballet School followed by a three-year scholarship to the New Zealand School of Dance in Wellington.

At 18 Kase was awarded a scholarship to New York for advanced classes at the ABT Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School where he was scouted by Charles Jude, a former student of Rudolf Nureyev, who offered Kase a full contract to dance professionally with his ballet company in France. Kase performs with Ballet de l’Opera National de Bordeaux regularly throughout France, Italy and Spain including at the Opera Houses of Paris and Venice together with international tours to Russia, China and Hong Kong. His roles with the ballet company include all the classical repertory and leading roles in works by the following choreographers: Charles Jude, George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Sir Frederick Ashton, Sir David Bintley, Serge Lifar, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Wayne McGregor, Ohad Naharin, Jiří Kylián, Carolyn Carlson, Angelin Preljocaj, Nicolas Le Riche, Alexander Ekman and Justin Peck.

Kase is currently completing a Master of Business Administration (MBA) at the University of Canterbury with core skills in arts leadership. Awards and credentials to date include: Advanced Coaching at The Royal Ballet, an NZQA National Diploma in Dance Performance, National Certificate in Dance Performance, the Royal Academy of Dance Solo Seal Award and Certificate III in Dance. In 2018 Kase was made a Distinguished Graduate of the New Zealand School of Dance.

When not in performances Kase has been fortunate to receive regular professional development from tutors to the Paris Opera Ballet. He has often appeared as a guest contributor on the Good Morning programme for Channel One and Arts on Sunday for Radio New Zealand. In 2009 a documentary on Kase was filmed by Television New Zealand.

Kara is a dancer, performer, creator, teacher and graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, Bachelor of Dance.

Kara has performed nationally and internationally for choreographers such as James Batchelor (Metasystems - Italy, Ersatz - Thailand), Lina Limosani (XXHume, Malthouse Theatre), Bicky Lee (Fey, ArtPlay), Megan Beckwith (Parallax, Melbourne Fringe Festival) and for Rebecca Hilton’s (GROUPNESS, Piece for Small Spaces). She also created and performed a solo for Body Conference 1.0.

She has collaborated on projects with Alana Everett (GQ Men’s Runway, VAMFF), Talitha Maslin (Primal, Short & Sweet) and assisted Yellow Wheel (Little Makers, Melbourne Now). She has also seconded and assisted for Chunky Move – Anouk Van Dijk (LUCID & Depth of Field).

​Kara is a freelance teacher based in Melbourne. She is a certified Countertechnique Teacher - Chunky Move (professional, public class and school workshop programs), Lucy Guerin Inc. (open professional class), VCA (musical theatre open class), The Space School of Performance Arts (curriculum) and guest teacher for professional and curriculum classes for Bangkok Dance Academy, Thailand (2013 & 2017). And she is also an Aleenta Barre Instructor for their Melbourne CBD studios and certified VIKASA Yoga RYS 200hr Yoga Teacher, having continued her practice and teaching practice in Thailand and Sri Lanka.

Described by Dance Aotearoa New Zealand as ‘a creative tour de force’, Loughlan Prior is an Aussie/Kiwi performer and choreographer. He is Choreographer in Residence at the Royal New Zealand Ballet and the Creative Director of Prior Visual, a project based film collective.

Loughlan was the winner of the Ballet Foundation of New Zealand's Harry Haythorne Award in 2015, and received Creative New Zealand’s Tup Lang Choreographic Award in 2016. He is a graduate of the New Zealand School of Dance and a prolific producer of theatre, film and multimedia projects. He has presented his work in New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Hong Kong, Germany and the United States.

His work has been featured by the Royal New Zealand Ballet, Te Papa Museum, New Zealand School of Dance, Asian Grand Prix, Grand Rapids Ballet, Palucca Hoschule fur Tanz Dresden, Assemblée Internationale Toronto, Tempo Dance Festival Auckland, LUX Light Festival, iD Fashion Week Dunedin, Vogue Australia, Melbourne Fashion Festival, New Zealand International Film Festival, San Francisco Dance Film Festival, Film Society of Lincoln Centre, TV3’s Dancing with the Stars and the Short Film Corner of the Cannes Film Festival.

​A spirited performer, his career highlights include repertoire by William Forsythe, Jiří Kylián, Liam Scarlett, Alexander Ekman, Garry Stewart, and Larry Keigwin, and he has created original roles in works by Cameron McMillan, Sarah Foster-Sproull and Javier De Frutos.

Denzil Bailey started to dance aged 17 in a weekly jazz class in a church hall in Cricklewood, London. Encouraged by his teacher to take ballet, he joined the London School of Classical Dance. After 3 years he was chosen to join the internationally prestigious English National Ballet where he danced for 10 years, touring the world.

Following some time freelancing and raising his son, Jacob, Denzil was approached by Cassa Pancho, founder of the renowned Ballet Black, to be appointed as it's first Ballet Master.

This led to numerous requests to teach allowing Denzil to unintentionally became a ballet teacher; which he calls his "dream job". In addition to his weekly classes at Dance Works in London, Denzil teaches at central Ballet School, The Place, London Studio Centre, Middlesex University, London Theatre School and Pinneaple. He also teaches for dance companies such as Rambert, Random, Neo Ballet, Tavaziva and Skanes Danse in Sweden - and of course, Ballet Black.

Raymond Chai has worked in television, musical theatre and classical ballet and has performed professionally with the National Ballet of Portugal. His musical theatre credits include work for the Royal Shakespeare Company, London Palladium, Royal National Theatre and Theatre Royal and he has also choreographed for the UK television show, Auf Wiedersehen Pet. Other choreographic commissions include work for Ballet Black, National Ballet of Portugal and Hong Kong Ballet. Raymond has been guest teacher for many professional companies including Matthew Bourne's New Adventures, Richard Alston Dance Company, Hong Kong Ballet, Akram Khan, English National Ballet and Rambert Dance Company. He teaches professional Ballet at DanceWorks is Ballet lecturer for London Contemporary Dance School and Ballet Master for Ballet Black.

Recently Raymond has been invited as guest teacher and choreographer by the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts. He premiered his full length production of The Sleeping Beauty with great success in Malaysia last year,

Raymond Chai was awarded Master’s degree in Dance Technique Pedagogy by Middlesex University an outstanding achievement and a true testament to the calibre of this remarkable teacher.

Deu is an independent contractor and choreographer originally from the Whangaparaoa Peninsula. In 2020 she graduated from The New Zealand School of Dance, with a major in contemporary dance.

Within the last five years, Deu has worked with a variety of acclaimed national and international choreographers such as Adam Barruch, Raewyn Hill, and James O’Hara. She was also given the opportunity to be involved in developmental processes with companies including Okareka, Footnote New Zealand Dance, Movement of the Human (MOTH), and World of Wearable Art (WOW). Deu has gained an accumulation of repertoire including works such as “Belle” by Malia Johnston, “Re: Structure” by Ross McCormack, “Be Your Self” by Garry Stewart (staged by Daniel Jaber), and “Rising” by Tor Columbus.

Deu has tutored and choreographed for emerging artists in New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Israel, England and America. She has former students that are studying at pre-professional institutions including the New Zealand School of Dance, Unitec, Sydney Dance Company PPY, and Rambert School. This year Deu will be working with the New Zealand Youth Ballet Company whilst continuing her studies towards her Bachelor of Musculoskeletal Health.

Adam trained with Marie Walton Mahon and Karen Thomas and graduated from The Australian Ballet School, and joined the Queensland Ballet Company, being promoted to soloist in 2004. He was invited to join Sydney Dance Company in 2005 drawing critical acclaim for his performances in the works of guest choreographers including Rafael Bonachela, Graeme Murphy, Stephen Petronio, Meryl Tankard, Aszure Barton, Kenneth Kvarnstrom, and Emanuel Gat.

Adam joined Garry Stewart's Australian Dance Theatre touring Europe with the company's production of Be Yourself and G before moving to the UK where he worked as motion capture artist on the film World War Z, was a dancer for ROH2’s DanceLine’s with Wayne McGregor and collaborated on developments and productions with such artists as Akram Kahn, Matthew Bourne and Theo Clinkard. He has worked with Directors such as Terry Guilliem, Melly Still and Lynne Page on multiple Operas

Adam has choreographed for music videos, commercials and films as well as creating works for multiple dance companies. He is currently the Director of the internationally renowned Progressing Contemporary Technique Program and is Resident Choreographer of the Australian production of Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill

Amber joined The Australian Ballet School at age eleven. After graduating Dux, she joined The Australian Ballet in 2001. In 2004, she was the recipient of both the Telstra Ballet Dancer of the Year Award and the People’s Choice Award. She was promoted to Principal Artist in 2011.

Amber’s repertoire highlights have included Odette in Swan Lake, Aurora and the Lilac Fairy in Sleeping Beauty, Tatiana in Onegin, Hanna in the Merry Widow, the Sugar Plum Fairy in Nutcracker, Swanhilda in Coppelia, Nikiya in La Bayadere, Queen of the Dryads in Don Quixote, the title roles in Giselle, Manon, Cinderella, and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and has danced in works by Wayne McGregor, Alexei Ratmansky, Christopher Wheeldon, John Neumeier, Jiri Kylian, Nacho Duato, George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Frederick Ashton, Glen Tetley, Serge Lifar, Stephen Baynes, Graeme Murphy, and Stanton Welch. She has performed with The Australian Ballet in London, Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Berkeley, Shanghai, Beijing, Tokyo, and Auckland. Amber has danced as a Guest Artist with The Royal Danish Ballet, The Shanghai Ballet, The Royal New Zealand Ballet, galas with the Stuttgart Ballet and the National Ballet of China, Fall For Dance Festival and David Hallberg’s Legacy Gala in New York City.

In 2021 Amber completed a Graduate Diploma of Elite Dance Instruction through The Australian Ballet School. She has also undertaken musculoskeletal anatomy units through the Melbourne Institute of Massage Therapy. She has served on the Board of the National Theatre Melbourne since January 2016. Amber has taught for The Australian Ballet, The Australian Ballet School, New Zealand School of Dance, Tanya Pearson Academy, The National Theatre Ballet School, and the Royal Academy of Dance Australia.

Isabella was the first and youngest British girl to be trained at The Vaganova Ballet Academy.

Located in Saint Petersburg Russia, Isabella went to the school when she was 15 years old. She had just graduated from The Royal Ballet Lower School. She turned down a place at London's Covent Garden Upper School, to take a chance and go to Russia. It was a difficult and scary decision to say the least. But she was incredibly brave and thought this is a once in a lifetime opportunity. Isabella initially thought she would stay a year, but ended up studying at The Vaganova Academy for four years. Isabella worked for an additional four years for some of Russia's most prestigious ballet companies.

She was obsessed with Russian Ballet whilst training in England and knew it was a dream of hers to go and train there.

Isabella worked endlessly hard and after 2 years was scouted as one of the best dancers in the whole school. She was given the best spot in the dance exams, and leading roles in the school performances at The Mariinsky Theatre.

Throughout this time Isabella spent hours practicing at night in the studios, mastering her craft. She discovered how to perform each step to an extremely high level. Delivering precision and consistency lead her to climb the ladder of the school and be offered a demi soloist position upon graduation at The Mikhailovsky Ballet. Isabella stayed there for a while before transferring to Eifman Ballet as a soloist. Here she discovered even further more extreme ways to move her body. It was extremely hard work on her body and after a couple of serious injuries, Isabella decided to return to London to pursue her own projects

She discovered her passion for teaching and sharing her elite training skills with many dancers from all over the world.

Whilst still dancing in various galas and freelance creative projects, 4 years ago, Isabella started teaching. She discovered that she had a gift for teaching students of all ages, making them feel positive, have belief in themselves as well as get the results they desire. This awakened her passion for sharing her knowledge. Isabella started private coaching pre pro students, beginner adults and professional dancers as well as guest teaching for schools and running masterclasses. She then started her Russian Ballet workshops events, bringing in stars of Russian ballet to London to share their knowledge and further enrich the dancers. Isabella is hugely excited to continue to spread her knowledge further to dancers worldwide. By helping them be the best they can within an enriching, encouraging and hard working atmosphere. She gets results.

Born in Waihi, New Zealand, Ty King-Wall started dancing at the age of seven, leaving New Zealand at sixteen to study full-time at the Australian Ballet School. In 2005, he won the Silver Medal at the Asia Pacific International Ballet Competition. Upon graduating Dux with Honours, Ty was accepted into The Australian Ballet in 2006.

Ty was promoted to Principal Artist in 2013, and has danced principal roles across the company’s repertoire, including Prince Désiré in the Sleeping Beauty, the Prince in the Nutcracker, Franz in Coppelia, Pinkerton in Madame Butterfly, Lensky in Onegin, Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake, the Prince in Cinderella, James in La Sylphide, Oberon in the Dream, Basilio in Don Quixote, Solor in La Bayadere, Jack/the Knave in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Danilo in The Merry Widow, Albrecht in Giselle, and Vronsky in Anna Karenina. He has danced in works by Jiri Kylian, William Forsythe, Nacho Duato, Wayne McGregor, Alexei Ratmansky, Christopher Wheeldon, George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Frederick Ashton, Glen Tetley, Twyla Tharp, Stephen Baynes, Graeme Murphy, and Stanton Welch.

In 2010 Ty won the Telstra Ballet Dancer Award. He has had the roles of Ceyx in Tim Harbour's Halcyon, and the role of Crassus in Lucas Jervie’s Spartacus, created on him. In 2013 he made his choreographic debut, The Art of War, for the Australian Ballet’s Bodytorque season. He has guested with the Royal New Zealand Ballet and Houston Ballet, and has performed with the Australian Ballet in Beijing, Tokyo, London, Paris and New York.

Aside from his professional dancing career, Ty holds a Bachelor of Arts (Classical Studies/Psychology) through Massey University, and a Master’s of Arts and Cultural Management through the University of Melbourne.

Ty retired as a dancer from The Australian Ballet in 2022 after a seventeen-year career with the company. He is now the Dancer’s Director on the Board of The Australian Ballet, and works as a freelance ballet teacher and coach. His engagements as a teacher have included The Australian Ballet, New Zealand School of Dance, National Theatre Ballet School, and Royal Academy of Dance Australia.

Lisa began training at age 5 at The Dance Academy in her hometown of Dubbo, NSW. She graduated from The Australian Ballet school in 1999 and pursued work in Europe.

During her 4 years overseas Lisa danced with the Stadttheater St Gallen Switzerland, Anhaltisches Theater Dessau and Stadttheater Koblenz and toured through Germany, to Cuba and Croatia. Whilst in Germany Lisa auditioned for Queensland Ballet Company in Hamburg and moved back to Australia to join QB under the direction of Francois Klaus in 2004.

Lisa was promoted to Soloist in 2013 during Li Cunxin’s first season as Director with Queensland Ballet and is now Senior Soloist. Lisa also plays an active part teaching for QB’s Adopt a dancer, Summer School, Audition Experience Day and Workshops.

She received Dancer to Watch in Dance Australia’s Critic Survey in 2014 and 2016. Face of the It’s Live Queensland Tourism campaign.Artist of the Year at The Dream Festival in 2016. Received her Diploma in Pilates Movement Therapy in 2017.

Repertoire highlights in works from Francois Klaus include:

Lilac Fairy - Sleeping Beauty, Hermia - A Midsummer Nights Dream, Michaela - Carmen, Lady Capulet- Romeo and Juliet , Big Swans - Swan Lake. Working with choreographers Gareth Belling, Nils Christie, Mario Schroeder and touring throughout Europe and Asia.

More recently : Cinderella, Fairy Godmother and Summer Fairy - Ben Stevenson’s Cinderella, Giselle and Myrtha in Ai-Gul Gaisina’s Giselle. Sugar Plum Fairy, Snow Queen and Arabian Pas de deux in Ben Stevenson’s Nutcracker. The Sylph and Lead Sylph in Peter Shaufuss’ La Sylphide. Fairy of Beauty, Grace and Wisdom in Greg Horsman’s Sleeping Beauty. Helena and Cobweb in Liam Scarlett’s A Midsummer Nights Dream. Big Swans, Czardas Princess in Ben Stevenson’s Swan Lake. Edith ( Gamzatti ) and 3rd solo shade in Greg Horsman’s La Bayadere.

Born in Oxford, he trained with Gaynor Walters in Devon and then at The Royal Ballet School, dancing the Flower Festival at Genzano pas de deux for his graduation, 2003. During his training he won medals at both Adeline Genée Award and Roseta Mauri Dance Competition.

He joined The Royal Ballet Company after graduation and was promoted to soloist in 2008. He danced principal and soloist roles in the company's repertoire over the following 19 years including Hans Peter/Nutcracker, Bronze Idol, Kolia, Jester (Cinderella), Blue Boy (les patineurs), Napoli and Chroma. He also created original roles in Wayne McGregor’s Infra, Woolf Works and Dante Project, Christopher Wheeldon’s Alice in Wonderland, A Winter’s Tale and DGV. As well as creating new work for Crystal Pite, Hofesh Shechter, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Cathy Marston. He was also nominated for Emerging Male Artist (Classical) at the Critics Circle Dance Awards.

He undertook his professional teacher training with The Royal Ballet School (PDTC) and has been a guest teacher for many vocational training programs as well as teaching masterclasses internationally.

He has worked as Assistant Repetiteur with The Royal Ballet Company for Romeo & Juliet, Nutcracker

and Giselle productions at The Royal Opera House. He has also been a jury member at many dance competitions and auditions.

He is currently the Artistic Manager for Intensive Courses and Audition at The Royal Ballet School and frequently teaches at the school. Since joining The Royal Ballet School, he has created and delivered new Intensive Courses both in the UK and Internationally and is passionate about nurturing the next generation of dancers.