South Korean born ballerina Lina Kim-Wheatstone started dancing at four-years-old and continued studying ballet when she moved to Australia at the age of 10. While she trained full time at Queensland Dance School of Excellence she was awarded the Most outstanding Dancer award and the Queensland Ballet Scholarship. Lina furthered her training as a Pre-professional ballet student at Queensland Ballet and was offered a contract in 2010. She was promoted to Soloist in 2016 and continues to perform nationally and internationally dancing many lead roles.  Lina’s favourite roles include Nikiya in La Bayadere, Lise in La Fille Mal Gardee, and Carmen in Carmen and was nominated as the Artist to Watch in the 2014 Dance Australia Critics Survey.

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Simon Dow, a former winner of the Cecchetti Medal and graduate of the Australian Ballet School, danced soloist roles with The Australian Ballet before joining the Stuttgart Ballet where he also danced soloist roles.

​Simon joined the Washington Ballet as a principal dancer and shortly afterwards was awarded the Best Partner Award at the Moscow International Ballet Competition. He has choreographed more than fifty original works that have been performed throughout Australia, Japan, China, Thailand, Germany, Italy, France and throughout the U.S. Among these works are five full-length narrative ballets.

In 2023 Simon performed in Alice Topp’s ‘Paragon’ as part of the Identity season to celebrate The Australian Ballet’s 60th anniversary and also performed the title role of Don Quixote in Rudolph Nureyev’s ‘Don Quixote’ with The Australian Ballet.

Amy was born in Ararat, Victoria and began jazz and tap classes at her local ballet school at the age of three. From the age of ten, Amy trained in the Cecchetti method with Carole Oliver School of Ballet in Ballarat, and as a Cecchetti scholar won bronze and silver medals. In 1999, aged 15, Amy successfully auditioned for The Australian Ballet School. She joined The Australian Ballet in 2002 and was promoted to coryphée in 2007, soloist in 2011 and senior artist in 2012. In 2018 she was promoted to principal artist on stage after her performance as Tertulla in the world premiere of Lucas Jervies' Spartacus.

Indonesian-Australian Juliet Burnett was born on Gadigal land (Sydney), where she trained in the Cecchetti method with Valerie Jenkins, with coaching by Valrene Tweedie and later also with Christine Keith. She then completed her training at The Australian Ballet School, receiving a contract for The Australian Ballet upon graduation in 2001. Juliet is one of Australia’s most recognised dancers after her years at The Australian Ballet (2002-2015), where the roles of Giselle, Odette in Graeme Murphy’s Swan Lake, La Sylphide, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and abstract classical works by the likes of George Balanchine, Kenneth MacMillan, Glen Tetley and Stephen Baynes. Juliet’s accolades include nomination as Most Outstanding Dancer by Dance Europe 2018, and Winner, Arts and Culture category of the 40 Under 40 Most Influential Asian-Australian Awards 2021. Juliet is founder, director and producer of A__PART, a platform connecting Australian and Indonesian artists and communities. 

Jayne Beddoe trained under Rhyll Kennell at the National Theatre Ballet School in Victoria and later with Anne

Woolliams at The Victorian College of The Arts. Between 1982 and 1984 she undertook further studies with the Australian Ballet School and won the Lucy Saronova and Dame Peggy van

Praagh awards. 

Jayne joined The Australian Ballet Company in 1985 and over the following 9 years was promoted to Coryphée, Soloist and leading Soloist.

Since retiring from dancing in 1993 Jayne has been involved with Cecchetti Ballet Australia, teaching, adjudicating and performing guest roles with The Australian Ballet. Jayne currently coaches and teaches at Glen Iris School of Dance .

Born in Melbourne, Australia, Nicole began her dance career at Heidelberg and District Ballet School directed by Lorraine Blackbourne OAM.  Nicole completed her Ballet exams up to Advanced 2, and by then she was dancing full time at the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School while completing her VCE studies.  Whilst in her graduating year at VCASS, Nicole was nominated Dance Captain, and represented her country as a finalist in Calgary, Canada for the Cecchetti International Classical Ballet Competition. After graduating Nicole danced full time at the Australian Conservatoire of Ballet before putting her career on hold to attain a Bachelors in Health Sciences and Masters in Podiatry.  Right after graduating University Nicole accepted her first International contract in America, and has since been dancing all over the World.  Her International accolades include Sydney After Dark Las Vegas, Tokyo Disneyland, Royal Caribbean Cruises, Broadway Christmas Wonderland Japan, Vegas! The Show, and NFL Cheerleader for the Las Vegas Raiders. 

Georgia was born in Ballarat, Victoria and started her ballet training at 8 years old. She began at the Carole Oliver School of Ballet and then went on to complete year 11 and 12 at the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School. After graduating and attending the Prix de Lausanne in Switzerland, Georgia moved to Brisbane for Queensland Ballets Pre-Professional Program. In 2015 she was promoted to Jette Parker Young Artist, a year Later Company Artist and in 2018 was promoted to Soloist.  

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Born in Adelaide, Australia, Samantha started her professional studies at the age of 16 under a scholarship at the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School in Melbourne, Australia. During this time with only 17 years old, she represented Australia at the International Cecchetti Ballet Competition in Manchester, UK, reaching to the finals of the competition. 

At the age of 18, she left Australia to live in New Zealand for 3 years, where she studied on a scholarship at the New Zealand School of Dance and danced choreographic works by Edmund Stripe, Val Caniparoli, Jo Funaki, George Balanchine, Nils Christie. From 2015 to 2018, she danced for the company Victor Ullate Ballet in Madrid, Spain.

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In the last four years, she has been dancing with Leipziger Ballet - Oper Leipzig in Germany. From September 2022, she entered the company Compania National de Danza, Spain as Corps de Ballet under the direction of Joaquín Da Luz.