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Dominic Ballard

Sponsored by Kent and Martha DiFiore

Joined Ballet West: 2017
Promoted to Demi-Soloist: 2022

Dominic Ballard is from Albury, New South Wales, Australia.  He joined Ballet West in 2017 and was promoted to Demi-Soloist in 2022.  Dominic trained at the Australian Ballet School in Melbourne, Australia.  He began his professional ballet career in Europe with the National Ballet of Slovakia before joining the Philadelphia Ballet in 2016.  Some of Dominic’s favorite leading roles he’s performed with Ballet West include Prince Gremin in Cranko’s Onegin, “Rubric” in Robbins’ Glass Pieces, Baron Von Rothbart in Sklute’s Swan Lake, and Fonte’s Carmina Burana, to name just a few.  Dominic received his earliest training in ballet from his mother, stepfather, and older sister.  Outside of dancing, Dominic loves reading and trying his hand at various arts and crafts including crochet.

Follow Dominic on Instagram @dominib1993.

Click below to see Dominic’s roles.

2022-23 Season

  • Onegin (Cranko) Prince Gremin
  • Return to a Strange Land (Kylián)
  • Rodeo (DeMille)

ON TOUR

  • Orange (Nunes) – Ballet West in the Garden, Red Butte Garden Amphitheater, Salt Lake City, Utah
  • Galantheae (LaPlane) – Ballet West in the Garden, Red Butte Garden Amphitheater, Salt Lake City, Utah

2021-22 Season

  • Dracula (Stevenson)
  • The Nutcracker (Christensen) Herr Stahlbaum, Drosselmeyer, Mouse King, Arabian, Mother Buffoon, Waltz of the Flowers
  • Romeo + Juliet (Smuin) Paris
  • Glass Pieces (Robbins) “Rubric”
  • Carmina Burana (Fonte)
  • Galantheae (LaPlane) Choreographic Festival (Rose Wagner Theater, Salt Lake City)
  • Orange (Nunes) Choreographic Festival (Rose Wagner Theater, Salt Lake City)

ON TOUR

  • Romeo + Juliet (Smuin) – George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Center, Park City, Utah

2020-21 Season

  • Tides (Archibald)
  • Faraway Close (Fonte)
  • The Thing With Feathers (Adams) Choreographic Festival (Rose Wagner Theater, Salt Lake City)

ON TOUR

  • The Thing With Feathers (Adams) – George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Center, Park City, Utah

2019-20 Season

  • Le Chant Du Rossingnol (Balanchine) Chamberlain
  • Prodigal Son (Balanchine) The Father
  • The Nutcracker (Christensen) Herr Stahlbaum, Mouse King, Arabian, Mother Buffoon, Waltz of the Flowers
  • Giselle (Sklute, after Coralli and Perrot) Wilfred, Peasant Man

ON TOUR

  • Giselle (Sklute, after Coralli and Perrot) – The Soraya, Los Angeles, California

2018-19 Season

  • Jewels (Balanchine) Diamonds
  • The Nutcracker (Christensen) Arabian, Mother Buffoon
  • Swan Lake (Sklute, after Petipa and Ivanov) Baron von Rothbart, Hungarian Princess Escort, Courtier
  • Onegin (Cranko) Prince Gremin, Neighbor
  • disquiet (Naumann) Choreographic Festival (Rose Wagner Theater, Salt Lake City)

2017-18 Season

  • Serenade (Balanchine)
  • Carmina Burana (Fonte)
  • The Nutcracker (Christensen) Mother Buffoon
  • Cinderella (Ashton) The Hairdresser, The Prince’s Friend
  • The Shakespeare Suite (Bintley) Chorus
  • Jabula (Weir) National Choreographic Festival (Rose Wagner Theater, Salt Lake City)

Arabian in Christensen’s The Nutcracker

Fonte’s Carmina Burana

Photos by Beau Pearson