Alison McWhinney

Birthplace
Port MacQuarie, Australia

Age started dancing
Four

Training
English National Ballet School, Ecole Ballet Studios

English National Ballet
Joined 2005, promoted First Artist 2014, Soloist 2015, First Soloist 2017

Favourite role
Juliet

Favourite production
Rudolf Nureyev’s Romeo & Juliet

Career highlights
Performing at the Sydney Opera House, as Juliet in Rudolf Nureyev’s Romeo & Juliet. January 2017 danced both Myrtha and Giselle in Mary Skeaping’s Giselle at the London Coliseum. Autumn 2017 performed the Sylph in Frank Andersen/Bournonville’s La Sylphide and made her debut as Clara/Sugar Plum Fairy in Wayne Eagling’s Nutcracker, December 2017. In 2018 she made her debut in Manon in the title role and recently appeared as Stepsister Edwina and the title role of Cinderella in Christopher Wheeldon’s Cinderella

Other info
Genée Silver Medal winner and Prix de Lausanne Prize winner. Nominated for two consecutive years running for the 2013 Emerging Dancer Award and again in 2014. Joint winner of Emerging Dancer 2014.