Greg Horsman

Greg Horsman is an Australian ballet choreographer, teacher, and retired dancer. He and his then-wife Lisa Pavane were a popular partnership during the 1980s and early 1990s, Horsman was Acting Artistic Director Queensland Ballet from July 2024- February 2025. Horsman has been Assistant Artistic Director Queensland Ballet since 2023 and was previously the Chief Ballet Master and Director of Artistic Operations for the Queensland Ballet since 2013. He attended Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School, where he had the opportunity to dance as a guest artist with the Philippine Ballet Theatre and the North Queensland Ballet. In 2006, he returned to Oceania to be a ballet master at the Royal New Zealand Ballet.

Throughout his career, he has been a guest principal artist, ballet master, and teacher with the Royal Danish Ballet, the Tokyo Ballet, the Houston Ballet, the Scottish Ballet, the Birmingham Royal Ballet, La Scala Ballet, and the Staatballett Berlin. He won a Green Room Award for Leading Male Dancer in 1992 in recognition of his performance in Romeo and Juliet.

Personal life Horsman was married to Lisa Pavane, his dance partner of many years. They have a daughter, Cassandra, and separated in 1998. Pavane was the Director of the Australian Ballet School from 2015 until 2024 and has since remarried.

Selected works As a dancer 1986: Études. Maina Gielgud, Australian Ballet. 1990: Giselle as Albrecht. Maina Gielgud, Australian Ballet. 1992: The Nutcracker as the Nutcracker Prince. Australian Ballet. 1994: Swan Lake. Australian Ballet. 1995: Romeo and Juliet as Mercutio. Rudolf Nureyev, English National Ballet. 1996: Cinderella as the Prince. Michael Corder, English National Ballet. 2000: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as the Mad Hatter. Derek Deane, English National Ballet. 2015: La Sylphide as Madge. Li Cunxin, Queensland Ballet. 2014: Coppélia at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC). Queensland Ballet. 2015: The Sleeping Beauty at the QPAC. Queensland Ballet. 2017: Glass Concerto at the QPAC. Queensland Ballet. 2018: La Bayadère at the QPAC. Queensland Ballet. 2021: The Sleeping Beauty at the Lyric Theatre, Brisbane. Queensland Ballet. 2022: A Rhapsody in Motion at the Talbot Theatre. Queensland Ballet. 2022: Peter and the Wolf at the Thomas Dixon Centre. Queensland Ballet.