Amy Harris was born in Ararat, Victoria and began jazz and tap classes at her local ballet school, Rosengreens School of Dancing, at the age of three. From the age of ten trained in the Cecchetti method with Carole Oliver School of Ballet in Ballarat, and as a Cecchetti scholar won bronze and silver medals. In 1999, aged 15, Amy successfully auditioned for The Australian Ballet School. She joined The Australian Ballet in 2002 and was promoted to Coryphée in 2007.

Repertoire highlights

• Stanton Welch's The Sleeping Beauty 2009
• Nuacho Duato'sPor Vos Muero 2009
• Alexei Ratmansky's Scuola di ballo 2009
• Graeme Murphy’s Swan Lake 2008
• Peter Wright’s The Nutcracker 2007
• Les Présages 2007
• Stephen Baynes’ Raymonda 2006
• Don Quixote 2006

Awards

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

You may not know ...

Amy loves photography and music and finds herself snapping away and going to gigs whenever she can fit it in.