Dance Australia

Alicia Jade Townsend

Where did you train?

I trained for 13 years with my mother at the Annette Roselli Dance Academy before completing my final two years of training with the Queensland Ballet Academy.

Please describe briefly your career to date.

Upon completing my training, I joined Queensland Ballet’s Pre-Professional Program (PPP) for two years. PPP provided me with valuable company experience and gave me the opportunity to perform with the and . I then joined the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre in the Czech Republic in August, 2018, as a corps de ballet member with soloist obligations. After that I joined Ballet Ireland for the company’s national tour of before accepting a contract with the English National Ballet, again for a production of .

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