Kevin Jackson

Kevin Jackson (born 1984) is an Australian ballet dancer and choreographer, a principal artist with The Australian Ballet.

Biography Born in Perth, Jackson commenced his dance training at the age of seven with the Shirley Farrell Academy of Dance. In 2002 he graduated from The Australian Ballet School; he joined The Australian Ballet in 2003 and was promoted to principal artist in 2010. In his time with the company, he has performed many lead roles in both classical and contemporary works by choreographers including John Neumeier, Alexei Ratmansky, Wayne McGregor, Jiří Kylián and Graeme Murphy.

In 2016, Jackson made a guest appearance in Houston Ballet, as The Prince in Stanton Welch's The Nutcracker.

Jackson holds a Vocational Graduate Diploma in Elite Dance Instruction from The Australian Ballet School.

Selected repertoire George Balanchine's Apollo, 2007 Jerome Robbins’ A Suite of Dances, 2008 des Grieux in Kenneth MacMillan's Manon 2008 Prince Siegfried in Graeme Murphy's Swan Lake, 2009 Romeo in Graeme Murphy's Romeo & Juliet, 2011 Onegin and Lenksy in John Cranko's Onegin, 2012 Oberon in Frederick Ashton's The Dream, 2015 Albrecht in Maina Gielgud's Giselle, 2015 Prince Désiré in David McAllister's The Sleeping Beauty, 2015 Vaslav Nijinsky in John Neumeier's Nijinsky, 2016

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Choreography Encomium for Bodytorque.Muses, 2011 Enter Closer for Bodytorque.2.2, 2009

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Awards Khitercs Hirai Foundation Scholarship 2007 Telstra Ballet Dancer Award 2008

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