Biography: Wendy Wright

Ballet

Upon completion of her training at the National and Royal Winnipeg Ballet Schools, Wendy Wright began her professional career as a dancer and quickly rose to the rank of soloist with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal. Wendy has toured extensively throughout the world and has danced many of the great classics. Her repertoire also includes the ballets of many renowned choreographers of our time, from Balanchine, Butler and Béjart, Limon and Lubovitch to Ashton, Tudor, Taylor, Mcdonald and Kudelka. Throughout her career, Wendy was loved by her audience. She was known to be a strong, musically sensitive, lyrical and generous dancer.

Wendy was awarded a Canada Council Grant for further professional study in New York.

After a tremendous career Wendy recycled herself by completing and graduating with honours from the Teachers training Course at École Supérieure de Danse du Québec. She was immediately placed on the faculty at the School and treasured her position as assistant to Daniel Seiller of the Paris Opera. She continued on as a strong asset to the School in that her extensive experience as a dancer enabled her to transmit much to the many students who have now gone on to their own careers in professional companies around the world.

In 1993 Wendy traveled west to join the faculty of the School of Alberta Ballet where she continued to teach ballet of all levels, pointe, variations and repertoire. She set and staged many ballets for the Schools Professional productions as well as taught the children’s roles for the Alberta Ballet productions of The Nutcracker and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Wendy has frequently been asked to guest teach across Canada as well as adjudicate at major Canadian dance festivals.

Most recently Wendy has taken up the post of Guest Ballet Mistress at Alberta Ballet where she has supervised and staged works of George Balanchine and carried out the rehearsals for Jean Grand-Maître’s Carmen and Act 3 Sleeping Beauty staged by Magdelena Popa after Petipa. Wendy teaches the company lass and is also in charge of coordinating and conducting the audition tour for the children’s roles in Alberta Ballet’s productions of The Nutcracker and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Wendy is always willing to share her enthusiasm, energy and passion for dance. She is an asset to any environment that she works in.

Wendy spends her leisure time with her son and dog in her garden that she loves to tend.