Jillian Vanstone

Jillian Vanstone
Jillian Vanstone
Born	1980/1981 (age 39–40)[1]; Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
Education	Canada's National Ballet School
Years active	1999-present
Current group	National Ballet of Canada

Jillian Vanstone is a Canadian ballet dancer. She is currently a principal dancer at the National Ballet of Canada.[2]

Early life

Vanstone was born and raised in Nanaimo, British Columbia. She started ballet at age six. At age 13, she moved to Toronto to train at Canada's National Ballet School.[1][2]

Vanstone joined the National Ballet of Canada in 1999. In 2011, she was chosen by choreographer Christopher Wheeldon to dance the role Alice in the North American premiere of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. She won the Rolex Dancers First Award for that role. Later that year, she was promoted to principal dancer. She had portrayed Perdita in the North American premiere of The Winter's Tale and Stella in the Canadian premiere of A Streetcar Names Desire, and danced lead roles in productions such as La fille mal gardée, The Sleeping Beauty, Manon, Apollo, and works by Wheeldon, Guillaume Côté, Alexei Ratmansky, John Neumeier and Jerome Robbins.[2][3][4] In 2019, she celebrated her 20th anniversary with the company after a performance of Giselle.[5]

Vanstone's repertoire with the National Ballet of Canada includes:[2]

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