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Dominic Ballard

Sponsored by Kent and Martha DiFiore

Joined Ballet West: 2017
Promoted to Demi-Soloist: 2022
Promoted to Soloist: 2025

Dominic Ballard is from Albury, New South Wales, Australia.  He joined Ballet West in 2017, was promoted to Demi-Soloist in 2022 and to Soloist in 2025. Dominic trained at the Australian Ballet School in Melbourne, Australia. He began his professional ballet career in Europe with the National Ballet of Slovakia and Philadelphia Ballet in 2016. At Ballet West, Dominic has enjoyed leading roles such as Dr. Jekyll in Val Caniparoli’s Jekyll and Hyde and Death in Kurt Joos’ The Green Table, as well as feature roles in Christopher Wheeldon’s Within the Golden Hour and Ulysses Dove’s Red Angels. Dominic received his earliest training in ballet from his mother, stepfather, and older sister. Outside of dancing, Dominic loves reading and trying his hand at various arts and crafts like drawing, painting, or crochet.

Follow Dominic on Instagram @dominicjamesballard. 

Click below to see Dominic’s roles.

2024-2025 Season

  • Jekyll & Hyde (Caniparoli) Dr. Jekyll
  • Serenade (Balanchine)
  • Within the Golden Hour (Wheeldon)
  • The Nutcracker (Christensen) Drosselmeyer, Waltz of the Flowers, Mother Buffoon, Sugar Plum Cavalier
  • Cinderella (Ashton) Stepsister
  • Symphony of Psalms (Kylián) 
  • Rite of Spring (Fonte)
  • Andromeda (Addison), Lingering Echoes (Fannéy), Mass Hysterical (Adams) Works from Within (Rose Wagner Theater, Salt Lake City)

2023-2024 Season

  • Dracula (Stevenson)
  • The Firebird (Christensen) The Kostchei
  • Fever Dream (Whitehead)
  • Stars & Stripes (Balanchine)
  • The Nutcracker (Christensen) Dr. Drosselmeyer, Waltz of the Flowers, Sugar Plum Cavalier
  • Swan Lake (Sklute) Wolfgang
  • The Green Table (Kurt Jooss) Death

2022-23 Season

  • Onegin (Cranko) Prince Gremin
  • Return to a Strange Land (Kylián)
  • Rodeo (DeMille)

ON TOUR

  • Orange (Nunes) – Ballet West in the Garden, Red Butte Garden Amphitheater, Salt Lake City, Utah
  • Galantheae (LaPlane) – Ballet West in the Garden, Red Butte Garden Amphitheater, Salt Lake City, Utah

2021-22 Season

  • Dracula (Stevenson)
  • The Nutcracker (Christensen) Herr Stahlbaum, Drosselmeyer, Mouse King, Arabian, Mother Buffoon, Waltz of the Flowers
  • Romeo + Juliet (Smuin) Paris
  • Glass Pieces (Robbins) “Rubric”
  • Carmina Burana (Fonte)
  • Galantheae (LaPlane) Choreographic Festival (Rose Wagner Theater, Salt Lake City)
  • Orange (Nunes) Choreographic Festival (Rose Wagner Theater, Salt Lake City)

ON TOUR

  • Romeo + Juliet (Smuin) – George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Center, Park City, Utah

2020-21 Season

  • Tides (Archibald)
  • Faraway Close (Fonte)
  • The Thing With Feathers (Adams) Choreographic Festival (Rose Wagner Theater, Salt Lake City)

ON TOUR

  • The Thing With Feathers (Adams) – George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Center, Park City, Utah

2019-20 Season

  • Le Chant Du Rossingnol (Balanchine) Chamberlain
  • Prodigal Son (Balanchine) The Father
  • The Nutcracker (Christensen) Herr Stahlbaum, Mouse King, Arabian, Mother Buffoon, Waltz of the Flowers
  • Giselle (Sklute, after Coralli and Perrot) Wilfred, Peasant Man

ON TOUR

  • Giselle (Sklute, after Coralli and Perrot) – The Soraya, Los Angeles, California

2018-19 Season

  • Jewels (Balanchine) Diamonds
  • The Nutcracker (Christensen) Arabian, Mother Buffoon
  • Swan Lake (Sklute, after Petipa and Ivanov) Baron von Rothbart, Hungarian Princess Escort, Courtier
  • Onegin (Cranko) Prince Gremin, Neighbor
  • disquiet (Naumann) Choreographic Festival (Rose Wagner Theater, Salt Lake City)

2017-18 Season

  • Serenade (Balanchine)
  • Carmina Burana (Fonte)
  • The Nutcracker (Christensen) Mother Buffoon
  • Cinderella (Ashton) The Hairdresser, The Prince’s Friend
  • The Shakespeare Suite (Bintley) Chorus
  • Jabula (Weir) National Choreographic Festival (Rose Wagner Theater, Salt Lake City)

Photos by Beau Pearson