When Amber Scott was just four years old she attended her first ballet, a production of Swan Lake in Brisbane performed by London’s Royal Ballet. From the moment the curtain rose she was transfixed. Then a strange thing happened. As the white swans began their graceful entrance, arms elegantly winging up and down, the small child in row F began emulating them, much to the amusement of her fellow audience members.
“I was on the edge of my seat, doing swan arms,” recalls Scott with a laugh. “So mum decided to take me to ballet class. Swan Lake was pivotal in me becoming a ballerina.”
In fact, , the achingly beautiful, tragic story of evil sorcery and unrequited love, would ultimately play a seminal role throughout Scott’s whole career after she was accepted into The Australian Ballet in 2001. Various productions of the while still a junior dancer in 2004; and debuting that same lead role in the world premiere of Stephen Baynes’s production in 2012.
