Melissa Hamilton
Melissa Hamilton is a first soloist of the Royal Ballet Company, London. Having joined The Royal Ballet Company in 2007, she has danced a vast range of the company repertoire as well as creating numerous roles with resident choreographer Wayne McGregor.
Her roles with The Royal Ballet include Manon, Juliet, Mary Vetsera (Mayerling), the Woman (The Judas Tree), Raven Girl, the Sugar Plum Fairy (The Nutcracker), Queen of the Dryads (Don Quixote), Olga (Onegin), the Lilac Fairy and Princess Florine (The Sleeping Beauty), Terpsichore (Apollo) and roles in Afternoon of a Faun, Symphonic Variations, Rubies (Jewels), Fool’s Paradise, Requiem, Tryst, Las Hermanas, Agon, Gloria, DGV: Danse à grande vitesse, Serenade, The Concert and Song of the Earth.
Created roles with Wayne McGregor include Infra, Woolf Works, Limen, Carbon Life and Acis and Galatea.
In the 2015/16 and 2016/17 seasons she took a leave of absence from The Royal Ballet to dance with Semperoper Ballett, Dresden, making debuts as Odette/Odile (Swan Lake), Aurora (The Sleeping Beauty) and Nikiya (La Bayadere).
Her roles with The Royal Ballet include Manon, Juliet, Mary Vetsera (Mayerling), the Woman (The Judas Tree), Raven Girl, the Sugar Plum Fairy (The Nutcracker), Queen of the Dryads (Don Quixote), Olga (Onegin), the Lilac Fairy and Princess Florine (The Sleeping Beauty), Terpsichore (Apollo) and roles in Afternoon of a Faun, Symphonic Variations, Rubies (Jewels), Fool’s Paradise, Requiem, Tryst, Las Hermanas, Agon, Gloria, DGV: Danse à grande vitesse, Serenade, The Concert and Song of the Earth.
Created roles with Wayne McGregor include Infra, Woolf Works, Limen, Carbon Life and Acis and Galatea.
In the 2015/16 and 2016/17 seasons she took a leave of absence from The Royal Ballet to dance with Semperoper Ballett, Dresden, making debuts as Odette/Odile (Swan Lake), Aurora (The Sleeping Beauty) and Nikiya (La Bayadere).
