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Years active
  
2005–present

Name
  
Dana Stephensen


Role
  
Ballet Dancer

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Born
  
1984/1985 (age 30–31)
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Current group
  
The Australian Ballet

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Dana Stephensen (born 1984–1985 in Brisbane, Australia) is an Australian ballet dancer. She is a soloist of The Australian Ballet.

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Dance career

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Dana Stephensen started her dance training at the age of three in Brisbane. In 2001 she joined the Queensland Dance School of Excellence and obtained the Royal Academy of Dance Solo Seal. After becoming an Interstate Associate of The Australian Ballet School she joined the senior school in 2002. She performed several seasons seconded to The Australian Ballet and joined full-time in 2005. She was promoted to coryphée in 2010 and soloist in 2013.

Stephensen won the Telstra Ballet Dancer Award for 2010, jointly with Ty King-Wall.

Selected repertoire

  • Lead Cupid in Molto Vivace, 2010
  • Guardian Swan in Graeme Murphy's Swan Lake, 2008–2010
  • Kitri in Don Quixote, 2010 (as Guest Artist with Australian touring company The Dancers Company)

    • Other activities

    Stephensen played an Australian Ballet dancer in the 2009 film Mao's Last Dancer.

    Awards

  • Telstra Ballet Dancer Award 2010
  • Khitercs Scholarship, 2008
  • James and Pamela Mills Scholarship, 2004
  • Graeme Murphy Award for Excellence in Contemporary Dance, 2003

    • References

    Dana Stephensen Wikipedia
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