Stephen Baynes has been Resident Choreographer with The Australian Ballet

Australian Ballet Company

The Australian Ballet is the largest classical ballet company in Australia. It was founded by J. C. Williamson Theatres Ltd. and the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust in 1962, with the English ballerina Dame Peggy van Praagh as founding artistic director...

 since 1995. He trained with Joanne Priest and graduated from The Australian Ballet School

Australian Ballet School

The Australian Ballet School was founded in 1964 as the primary training facility for The Australian Ballet by Dame Margaret Scott. It is part of the Australian Ballet Centre, which is located in the Melbourne Arts Precinct, Southbank in Melbourne, Victoria...

 in 1975. He has danced with the Australian Ballet (1976-81, 1985 and promoted to Soloist in 1992), the Stuttgart Ballet

Stuttgart Ballet

Stuttgart Ballet was the first major German ballet company. It rose to fame in the 1960s under Artistic Director John Cranko. The company, which is renowned for presentations of full-length narrative ballets including Romeo and Juliet, Eugene Onegin, The Taming of the Shrew, John Neumeier's Die...

 (1981-84) and worked with choreographers such as Kenneth MacMillan

Kenneth MacMillan

Sir Kenneth MacMillan was a British ballet dancer and choreographer. He was artistic director of the Royal Ballet in London between 1970 and 1977.-Early years:...

, John Neumeier

John Neumeier

John Neumeier is a well-known American ballet dancer, choreographer, and director. He has been the director and chief choreographer of the Hamburg Ballet since 1973. 5 years later he founded the Hamburg Ballet School, which also includes a boarding school...

, William Forsythe

William Forsythe (dancer)

William Forsythe is an American dancer and choreographer resident in Frankfurt am Main in Hessen. He is known internationally for his work with the Ballett Frankfurt and The Forsythe Company...

 and Hans van Manen

Hans van Manen

Hans van Manen is a Dutch ballet dancer, choreographer and photographer.He is a son of a German housemaid. He studied under Sonia Gaskell, Françoise Adret and Nora Kiss. Van Manen wrote many ballets. He worked for the Dutch National Ballet from 1973 to 1985. He was awarded the Erasmus Prize in...

.

He has also created works for La Scala

La Scala

La Scala , is a world renowned opera house in Milan, Italy. The theatre was inaugurated on 3 August 1778 and was originally known as the New Royal-Ducal Theatre at La Scala...

 Ballet, Sydney Dance Company

Sydney Dance Company

The Sydney Dance Company is one of Australia's most successful and well-known contemporary dance companies. The company was founded in 1969 as the dance-in-education group Ballet in a Nutshell by Suzanne Musitz , later changing its name to Athletes and Dancers, and Dance Company ...

, West Australian Ballet

West Australian Ballet

The West Australian Ballet is the premier ballet dance company of Western Australia and is based in Perth at His Majesty's Theatre, Western Australia. The company was founded in 1952 by Madame Kira Bousloff and is one of the oldest ballet companies in Australia. Artistic directors have included...

, the Queensland Ballet

Queensland Ballet

The Queensland Ballet, founded in 1960 by Charles Lisner OBE, is the premier ballet company of Queensland, Australia, and is based in Brisbane.- About Queensland Ballet :...

, Pacific Northwest Ballet

Pacific Northwest Ballet

Pacific Northwest Ballet is a ballet company based in Seattle, Washington in the United States. Founded in 1972 as part of the Seattle Opera and named the Pacific Northwest Dance Association, it broke away from the Opera in 1977 and took its current name in 1978. It is said to have the highest per...

 and New York City Ballet

New York City Ballet

New York City Ballet is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Leon Barzin was the company's first music director. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company...

's Diamond Project.

Choreography

As a choreographer he has created

• "Strauss Songs" (1986) The Australian Ballet
• "Ballade" for The Australian Ballet’s 25th Anniversary Choreographic Competition in 1988 (1988-89
• "Catalyst" (1988) The Australian Ballet
• "Andante" (1990) The Australian Ballet
• "Four Reflections of a Quintet" (1993) The Dancers Company
• "Souvenirs" (1994) The Australian Ballet
• "Episodes" for La Scala Ballet Milan
• "Beyond Bach" The Australian Ballet
• "Into the Darkness" for the West Australian Ballet
• "At the edge of night" The Australian Ballet for the Melbourne International Arts Festival
  Melbourne International Arts Festival
  Melbourne Festival is a celebration of dance, theatre, music, visual arts, multimedia, outdoor and free events held for 17 days each October in a number of venues across Melbourne, Australia.-History:...
  
  
• "Into Dharma" (1986) Sydney Dance Company
  Sydney Dance Company
  The Sydney Dance Company is one of Australia's most successful and well-known contemporary dance companies. The company was founded in 1969 as the dance-in-education group Ballet in a Nutshell by Suzanne Musitz , later changing its name to Athletes and Dancers, and Dance Company ...
  
  
• "Shadow in the Facet" (1986) The Australian Ballet
• "1914" (1997) The Australian Ballet
• "The Fold" (1999) The Queensland Ballet
  Queensland Ballet
  The Queensland Ballet, founded in 1960 by Charles Lisner OBE, is the premier ballet company of Queensland, Australia, and is based in Brisbane.- About Queensland Ballet :...
  
  
• "Lachrimae" (2000) West Australian Ballet
• "Molto Vivace" (2003) The Australian Ballet
• restaged "Raymonda
  Raymonda
  Raymonda is a ballet in three acts, four scenes with an apotheosis, choreographed by Marius Petipa, with music by Alexander Glazunov, his opus 57. First presented by the Imperial Ballet at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre on in St. Petersburg, Russia...
  
  " (2006) The Australian Ballet
• "Constant Variants" (2007) The Australian Ballet
• "Night Path" (2008) The Australian Ballet

External links

• Profile of Stephen Baynes at Australia Dancing
• Resident Choreographers at The Australian Ballet (source of choreography)