The Australian Ballet: Brett Chynoweth

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Brett Chynoweth

Brett Chynoweth was born in Melbourne. At age five, he began training at a local ballet school. He soon moved to The Australian Ballet School, where he received, among other awards, the Dr HC (Nuggett) Coombes Travelling Scholarship, which enabled him to train in New York and Toronto, and the prestigious Graeme Murphy Award for Excellence in Contemporary Dance. Brett has been on five Dancers Company tours between 2003-08. He graduated dux from The Australian Ballet School with honours to join The Australian Ballet at the beginning of 2009. Brett has since danced with the company across Australia and overseas, as well as studying throughout Europe on scholarship.

Repertoire highlights

Wayne McGregor's Dyad 1929 2013
Melancholic in George Balanchine's The Four Temperaments 2013
Earl's Equerry in Graeme Murphy's Swan Lake 2012
Mercutio in Graeme Murphy's Romeo & Juliet 2012, 2011
Goro in Stanton Welch's Madame Butterfly 2011
Lead Cupid in Stephen Baynes' Molto Vivace 2010
Nacho Duato's Por vos Muero 2009

Awards

Telstra Ballet Dancer Award Nominee 2011
Maurice Sullivan Memorial Scholarship 2011/12

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"On the weekend or my days off, I love to get a coffee and roam the city and the galleries of Melbourne."

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