Soloist

Born in England, Bethany trained as a Bristol Junior Associate with the Royal Ballet School, before moving onto both the Lower and Upper Royal Ballet Schools. During this time, she danced in The Royal Ballet’s productions of The Nutcracker, Coppélia, Don Quixote, Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty, as well as winning the April Oldrich Award for Most Dynamic Performer in 1994 and receiving First Commendation and Young British Dancer of the Year in 2006. Graduating with honours in 2007, Bethany received the Wyre Drawer company leavers prize. Bethany joined Scottish Ballet in 2007 and has danced in Page’s The Nutcracker (Bad Snowflake), The Sleeping Beauty (Pina, Fairy of Song/Lady Bluebird, Cinderella), Cinderella (Summer), Pennies From Heaven, Fearful Symmetries, Cheating, Lying, Stealing and Alice (Tweedledee, Bread and Butterfly), Ashton's Scènes de Ballet, Balanchine's Rubies, Forsythe's Workwithinwork, Spink's Petrushka, Brown’s For M.G.: The Movie, Pastor’s Romeo and Juliet and In Light and Shadow, Dean’s Träume, Alston's Carmen (Frasquita), Liburd's From Where, Meckler/Lopez Ochoa's A Streetcar Named Desire and Martin Lawrance’s Run For It.

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Films

Alice backstage braodcast featuring Bethany talking about warming up before the performance.

 

Quotes

ALICE 2011

.Theatreinwales, 05 May 2011 – Tweedledum and Tweedledee, danced spiritedly by Bethany Kingsley-Garner and Brenda Lee Grech.

AUTUMN 2009

Forsythe’s Workwithinwork

. Dance Europe, November 2009 – In an exemplary cast, it was Luke Ahmet – another superbly musical dancer and Bethany Kingsley-Garner in a less prominent role, as well as the always liquid Paul Liburd, who caught my eye.