Tyann Clement, Soloist

Birthplace
Alexandria, Virginia

Dance Training
Harvey Hysell
Houston Ballet's Ben Stevenson Academy

Joined the Company
1991

Promoted to Soloist
2001

Favorite Role
The Mother in Christopher Bruce's Hush

One defining moment...
In my first featured moment as the Lead Flower in The Nutcracker, I truly felt like I was flying… body and soul!

Tyann Clement began her training in New Orleans, Louisiana with Kathryn Gamble and Harvey Hysell. Before joining the company, she also studied with Houston Ballet's Ben Stevenson Academy. In 2001, Ms. Clement was promoted to soloist. She has been featured in The Merry Widow, Les Patineurs, Manon, Gloria and Five Poems, and has danced the pas de trois and two swans in Swan Lake, the peasant pas in Giselle, fairy temperament in The Sleeping Beauty, and the autumn and winter fairies in Cinderella. Her principal roles in Ben Stevenson ballets include Calpurnia in Cleopatra, the American lady in Peer Gynt, the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella, and the Snow Queen in The Nutcracker. She has also danced the Russian girl in George Balanchine’s Serenade; Tinkerbell in Trey McIntyre’s Peter Pan; and Suzuki in Stanton Welch’s Madame Butterfly. Ms. Clement has been given the opportunity to show her versatility in contemporary works such as Christopher Bruce’s Ghost Dances and Sergeant Early’s Dream; Stanton Welch’s Indigo; William Forsythe’s In the middle, somewhat elevated; Natalie Weir’s In a Whisper and Steppenwolf; Paul Taylor’s Company B; and Dominic Walsh’s Flames of Eros, The Illusion of Separation, and Dolcemente. Ms. Clement is also proud to be a member of Dominic Walsh Dance Theater.