Meet Senior Artist

Dimity Azoury

Introducing Dimity

Dimity Azoury began dancing at the age of four in her home town of Queanbeyan, New South Wales. She studied for eleven years at the Kim Harvey School of Dance in Canberra before moving to The Australian Ballet School in 2005. She was accepted into The Australian Ballet in 2008, where she has had the opportunity to travel to Paris, London, New York, Japan, San Francisco and Los Angeles. She has loved working with many choreographers including Nicolo Fonte, Graeme Murphy, Tim Harbour, Stephen Page and Stephen Baynes. Dimity was promoted to soloist in 2015 following her debut as Baroness von Rothbart in Graeme Murphy’s Swan Lake, and to senior artist in 2017.

repertoire highlights

Baroness von Rothbart and Guardian Swans in Graeme Murphy’s Swan Lake 2015
Myrtha in Maina Gielgud’s Giselle 2015
2nd Shade variation in Stanton Welch’s La Bayadère 2014
Jiří Kylián’s Petite Mort and Bella Figura 2014, 2013
Wayne McGregor’s Dyad 1929 2013
3rd-Movement Principal Girl in Sir Kenneth MacMillan's Concerto 2011
Kevin Jackson's Enter Closer 2009
Vivienne Wong's Touch Transfer 2011
Nacho Duato's  Por vos muero 2009
Nicolo Fonte's The Possibility Space 2008 

You may not know

Dimity has a Scottish Deerhound called Gunther Edwin, who was "page-dog" at her wedding to fellow dancer Rudy Hawkes.

Professional accolades

Awards
  • Telstra Ballet Dancer Award, 2014
  • Telstra Ballet Dancer Award nominee 2012, 2014
  • Susan Morgan Scholarship 2012

A young dancer with an explosive and mesmerising big jump — an uncommon asset among ballerinas

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