Amy Harris is an Australian ballet dancer, soloist with The Australian Ballet.

Harris was born 1983 in Ararat, Victoria

Ararat, Victoria

Ararat is a city in south-west Victoria, Australia, about west of Melbourne, on the Western Highway on the eastern slopes of the Ararat Hills and Cemetery Creek valley between Victoria's Western District and the Wimmera...

. She began classes in ballet, jazz and tap when she was three years old and started her Cecchetti

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 training with Carole Oliver School of Ballet in Ballarat at the age of 10.

Harris started with The Australian Ballet School in 1999, aged 15. She then went on to join the Australian Ballet corps de ballet in 2002. 2007 saw Harris rise to the rank of coryphée and she was appointed soloist in 2011. She won the Telstra People's Choice Award in both 2008 and 2010. For the 2010 competition, she started a twitter

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 blog following her life in the company.

Outside of ballet, Harris is a keen photographer.

Selected repertoire

• Kevin Jackson's Encomium (2011)
• Stanton Welch's Madam Butterfly (2011)
• Graeme Murphy's The Silver Rose (2010)
• Graeme Murphy's Swan Lake (2008)
• Don Quixote (2006)

Awards

• Telstra People's Choice Award 2008 and 2010
• Friends of the Australian Ballet Scholarship 2001
• Nagae Scholarship 2000

External links

• Interview, with three pictures. Ballet News. 9 March 2011.