Birthplace

Laguna Beach, California

Dance Training

Victor and Tatiana Kasatsky Classical Ballet Academy
Mentored and coached by David Allan

Year Joined

2022

Previous Company

The National Ballet of Canada - 2009-2021

Favorite Roles

Jack/The Nave of Hearts in Christopher Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Favorite Ballets

William Forsythe’s The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude
Maurice Bejart's Songs of a Wayfarer
Jerome Robbins’ Other Dances

A Defining Moment

Performing the tile role in John Neumeier’s Nijinsky at the Theatre Champs de Elysee in Paris, France. It was euphoric!

Bio

A native of Laguna Beach, California, Campbell trained under Victor and Tatiana Kasatsky in Orange County. He joined The National Ballet of Canada as an Apprentice in 2009 and was promoted to Principal Dancer in 2018. He joined Houston Ballet as a Principal Dancer in January 2022. 

During his tenure at The National Ballet of Canada, Campbell created the title role in the world premiere of Will Tuckett’s Pinocchio* and danced the title roles in John Neumeier’s Nijinsky and Guillaume Côté’s Le Petit Prince*. His repertoire also includes principal roles such as; Crown Prince Rudolph in Mayerling by Sir Kenneth MacMillan, Mercutio and Benvolio in Romeo & Juliet, by Alexei Ratmansky, Hilarion in Giselle by Sir Peter Wright, Camille in The Merry Widow by Ronald Hynd, Gurn in La Sylphide by August Bournonville, Bluebird in The Sleeping Beauty by Rudolf Nureyev, Puck in The Dream, Alain in La Fille mal Gardée, and Kolia in A Month in the Country by Sir Fredrick Ashton, Demetrius in A Mid Summer Nights Dream, Stanislav in Nijinsky, Levin in Anna Karenina and Alan in A Streetcar Named Desire by John Neumeier, Peter/The Nutcracker in The Nutcracker by James Kudelka, Nutcracker Prince, and Drosselmeyer in The Nutcracker, Step Sister in Cinderella, and Spring Lover in The Four Seasons by Stanton Welch, El Capitan in Stars and Stripes, Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, Rubies, Tarantella, Chaconne, and Serenade by George Balanchine, Jack/The Knave of Hearts and Lewis Carroll/The White Rabbit in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Florizel in The Winter’s Tale by Christopher Wheeldon, Paquita by Christopher Stowell and Etudes by Harald Lander.

He has also danced soloist roles in; Divergence, Tu Tu, The Dead South - In Good Company, and Bespoke (Welch), Piano Concerto #1 and Symphony # 9 (Ratmansky), Petite Mort (Kylian), Chroma, Genus (McGregor), Angels’ Atlas and Emergence (Pite), Spectre de la Rose (Goecke), The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude and The Second Detail (Forsythe), The Concert (Robbins), Black Night’s Bright Day* (Kudelka), Cacti (Ekman), Filigree and Shadow (Harbour), The Lightning Round (Rhoden), Allegro Brillante (Balanchine), Pur ti Miro (Elo), Hamlet (O’Day), Night (Adams), Orpheus Alive*, Dialogue Dances*, Dreamers Ever Leave You*, These Worlds In Us*, Unearth*, and Eyes of The Sky* (Binet), Being and Nothingness*, and Frame by Frame* (Côté). His repertoire also includes roles in; Swan Lake, Cinderella, and The Four Seasons (Kudelka), Onegin (Cranko), Manon and Elite Syncopations (MacMillan), Don Quixote (Fischer), The Seagull (Neumeier), Theme and Variations (Balanchine), and Paz de la Jolla (Peck).

Campbell’s international accolades include the Bronze Medal in the Pas de Deux category at the Youth American Grand Prix in 2009 and Finalist in the Prix de Lausanne the same year. In 2011, he received the William Marrié Award for Dramatic Excellence for his role as Alain in La Fille mal Gardée. He also won the MyTheatre Award for the Best Ballet Performance in Robert Binet’s Unearth and was recognized by Dance Magazine as one of the “Top 25 Dancers to Watch” in 2015. Skylar is on faculty as a ballet instructor at Uptown Dance Houston and is Director/Founder of Skylar Campbell Dance Collective; a non-for-profit aiming to unite and collaborate with artists, celebrating each artist's individual path, allowing artists to present their very best on stages of all sizes. 

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