Concerto (staging) Manon (staging) |
Wendy Walker was born in
Adelaide, South Australia and
joined The Australian Ballet
after studying at the company's
school. Miss Walker was
promoted to soloist with The
Australian Ballet in 1973, and
worked directly with Peggy van
Praagh, Vera Volkova,
Frederick Ashton, Antony
Tudor, Leonide Massine,
Robert Helpmann, John Butler,
Eugene Loring and John
Cranko while dancing in their
ballets. She also danced
featured roles in all of the
classical repertoire. After taking
a leave of absence to dance with
the London Festival Ballet in
1975, she returned to perform
with The Australian Ballet, and
also acted as assistant ballet
mistress under Miss van Praagh
and Anne
Woolliams.
Miss Walker was awarded a
Churchill Fellowship to study at
The Benesh Institute in London
for 1978-79. She then notated the
dance sequences in the film
Nijinsky for Kenneth
MacMillan and participated in the
International Course for
Professional Composers and
Choreographers, directed by Glen
Tetley. Miss Walker has lectured at
Waterloo University in Canada,
and has worked with the
Netherlands Dance Theatre and
The Sadler's Wells Royal
Ballet.
Miss Walker joined American
Ballet Theatre as a Choreologist in
1980 and was appointed a Ballet
Mistress in 1984. She worked
closely with Antony Tudor,
Kenneth MacMillan, Mikhail
Baryshnikov, Natalia Makarova,
John Taras, Glen Tetley, Mark
Morris, Twyla Tharp and Ulysses
Dove, among others, notating
their choreography. Also for ABT,
she staged George Balanchine's
Bourree Fantasque and
Symphonie Concertante,
and MacMillan's Concerto,
Romeo and Juliet and The
Sleeping Beauty. Her
responsibilities included the
maintenance of the MacMillan and
Ashton repertoire for the
Company.
In 1993, Miss Walker left
American Ballet Theatre to join the
Vienna Staatsoper, where, as ballet
mistress, she co-staged
Manon for the company.
She also staged MacMillan's
Romeo and Juliet for the
Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires. She
then returned to the United States
to assist in the staging of
Manon for ABT's 1994
Spring season at the
Met. |
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