Victoria Hewitt

Victoria was born in Morecambe and trained at The Royal Ballet School. She danced the lead Pas de deux in Matthew Hart’s Simple Symphony and in the First and Third Movements of Kenneth MacMillan’s Concerto at the School’s 1993 and 1994 performances respectively. She joined The Royal Ballet in 1996.

She dances a wide range of roles in the repertory, including the Walz, Polonnaise, Czárdas and one of the six Princesses in Swan Lake, La Bayadère and Don Quixote; a Courtesan in MacMillan’s Manon, the Third Movement in Concerto, Romeo and Juliet, Prince of the Pagodas, Natasha in Macmillan’s Winter Dreams, Princess Louise and Princess Stephanie in Mayerling, Tatiana in Anastasia; a Brown Skater in Frederick Ashton’s Les Patineurs, Tales of Beatrix Potter, Cinderella, Scènes de ballet; the Fourth Movement in Balanchine’s Symphony in C, William Tuckett’s Puirt-a-Beul, Ashley Page’s When We Stop Talking, Stephen Baynes’ Beyond Bach, William Forsythe’s In the middle, somewhat elevated, the Pas de six in Peter Wright’s production of Giselle, the Silver Fairy and Fairy of Purity in Natalia Makarova’s The Sleeping Beauty and the Silver Fairy and Fairy of the Crystal Fountain in the Monica Mason and Christopher Newton production of The Sleeping Beauty.

She has created roles in Tom Sapsford’s Last Night at the Empire performed in the Clore Studio Upstairs, part of Artists’ Development Initiative Matthew Hawkins’s Gone Tomorrow (Clore 2001), Christopher Wheeldon’s Tryst (2002), Les Bleuets in Davis Bintley’s Les Saisons, Alastair Marriott’s Being and Having Been (2004) and Tanglewood (2005).

During the 2007/2008 Season she made her debut as the second Solo Shade in Natalia Makarova’s production of La Bayadère, one of the two Red Girls in Les Patineurs and Mrs Tittlemouse in Tales of Beatrix Potter.

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