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Matthew Lawrence



> Introduced by David Bintley Born in New Zealand, Matthew Lawrence trained at the Australian Ballet School in Melbourne. After graduating in 1996, he joined Australian Ballet, and was promoted to Principal in 2004. With the Australian Company, Matthew's repertory included the leading roles in Giselle, Romeo and Juliet, La Fille mal gardée, Coppélia, Graeme Murphy's Swan Lake, Don Quixote, Sleeping Beauty and works by many modern choreographic luminaries. Matthew joined Birmingham Royal Ballet in 2008 and the breadth of roles he has already performed with the Company have proved him a hugely versatile artist, with a personality that has already endeared him to the Company and its audiences. Matthew's talents are equally sought out as a guest artist and recent galas have seen him dancing at the World Ballet Festival in Japan, with the New Zealand Ballet, at the Cranko Festival in Stuttgart and our own gala for the retirement of Desmond Kelly.


REPERTORY INCLUDES
David Bintley: Sylvia, (Orion), Cyrano (Cyrano)The Orpheus Suite (Apollo), The Dance House and Beauty and the Beast (Beast), and David Bintley and Galina Samsova's production of Giselle (Albrecht)
Mikhail Fokine: The Firebird (Ivan Tsarevich)
Kenneth MacMillan: Elite Syncopations ('Bethena Concert Waltz')
George Balanchine: Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (Big Boss) Frederick Ashton: The Two Pigeons (Her Lover), The Dream (Oberon) and Enigma Variations (Richard P. Arnold)
Peter Wright's productions of The Nutcracker (Prince), The Sleeping Beauty (Prince Florimund)
Peter Wright and Galina Samsova's production of Swan Lake (Prince Siegfried)
With Australian Ballet: Leading roles in Stanton Welch's The Sleeping Beauty, Don Quixote, Stephen Baynes's Raymonda, Graeme Murphy's Swan Lake, Giselle, Romeo and Juliet, Coppélia, La Fille mal gardée and ballets by Balanchine, Tetley, Tharp, Wheeldon, Duato, Robbins and Kylián.

Last updated August 2010.
Matthew Lawrence

Matthew Lawrence; photo: Roy Smiljanic

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