Stephanie Williams | |
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Born | 1987 or 1988 (age 35–36)[1] |
Occupation | ballet dancer |
Employer | American Ballet Theatre |
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 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]