Stephanie Williams (dancer)

Stephanie Williams (born in Newcastle, New South Wales) is an Australian ballet dancer, a member of the corps de ballet of the American Ballet Theatre.

Stephanie Williams
Born	1987 or 1988 (age 37–38)[1] Newcastle, New South Wales
Occupation	ballet dancer
Employer	American Ballet Theatre

Dance career

Stephanie Williams started learning ballet with the Marie Walton-Mahon (founder & creator of Progressing Ballet Technique) Dance Academy in Newcastle at the age of 8.^[2] She joined The Australian Ballet School and performed the double rôle of Odette and Odile in Swan Lake at her graduation performance in 2006.^[3] She then joined The Australian Ballet and was promoted to coryphée. She was a guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company at the Sydney Festival in 2009.^[3]

She won both the Telstra Ballet Dancer Award and Telstra People's Choice Award for 2009, the second dancer to win both awards.^[3]

Williams joined the corps de ballet of the Dutch National Ballet in 2011.^[4]

In January 2012 she joined American Ballet Theatre as a member of the corps de ballet.^[2][5]

Selected repertoire

• Odette and Odile in Graeme Murphy's Swan Lake, 2006^[3]
• Idée fixe in Krzysztof Pastor's Symphonie fantastique^[6][7]
• Maiden in Alexei Ratmansky's Firebird, world première 2012^[2][8]

Awards

• Gold Medal, 10th Asian Pacific International Ballet Competition in Tokyo, 2005^[2][5]
• Telstra Ballet Dancer Award and People's Choice Award, 2009^[3]