Ty King-Wall

Ty King-Wall is a New Zealand ballet dancer, an ex principal dancer with The Australian Ballet and current Artistic Director of the Royal New Zealand Ballet.

Dance career King-Wall was born in Waihi, New Zealand. He started dancing aged seven and trained at the Dance Education Centre, Tauranga.

In 2023, King-Wall was appointed the Artistic Director of the Royal New Zealand Ballet.

Selected repertoire

Ceyx in Tim Harbour's Halcyon (2006) (Harbour created the role on King-Wall) Prince Florimund in Stanton Welch's The Sleeping Beauty (2009) Scuola di Basllo Alexei Ratmansky (2009) The Prince in Peter Wright's The Nutcracker (2010) Octavian in Graeme Murphy's The Silver Rose (2010) Lensky in John Cranko's Onegin (2012) Prince Siegfried in Stephen Baynes' Swan Lake (2012) Principal Man in Harald Lander's Études (2012) Basilio in Rudolf Nureyev's Don Quixote (2013) Solor in Stanton Welch's La Bayadère (2014) Albrecht in Maina Gielgud's Giselle (2015) Prince Dēsirē in David McAllister's Sleeping Beauty (2015) Knave in Christopher Wheeldon's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (2017) Crassus in Lucas Jervies' Spartacus (2018) Vronsky in Yuri Possokhov Anna Karenina (2022)

Dance awards

PACANZ Young Performer of the Year Award, 2002 Silver Medal, Asia Pacific International Ballet Competition, 2005 Lissa Black scholarship, 2009 Telstra Ballet Dancer Award, 2010 (also nominee in 2008)