Ste­pha­nie Lake

Canadian-born Stephanie Lake is a multi-award-winning choreographer and dancer and is one of the most important dance personalities in her chosen home country of Australia. She can look back on a dance career spanning over 20 years. In 2014, she founded the “Stephanie Lake Company” in Melbourne and has been its artistic director ever since. She is also the Resident Choreographer of The Australian Ballet, and sits on the Victorian College of the Arts Advisory Board and is Ambassador for “Stompin” youth dance company based in Tasmania.

Her work as a choreographer not only regularly tours Australia, but also worldwide. Her major works have been performed across Australia and toured internationally to Theatre National de Chaillot (Paris), Ruhrfestspiele and Theater im Pfalzbau (Germany), Antigel Festival (Switzerland), Place des Arts, Danse Danse (Montreal), TOLive (Toronto), Dublin Dance Festival, Tramway (Glasgow), M1 Contact Festival (Singapore), Aarhus Festival (Denmark), Beijing Dance (China), Theatre de la Ville (Luxembourg), Concertgebouw Brugge (Belgium), Hong Kong Arts Festival, Taipei National Theatre and Concert Hall among others. Lake works in theatre as well as in film and television, in the visual arts and choreographs music videos.

She has been awarded the Helpmann Award, two Australian Dance Awards, two Green Room Awards and the Melbourne Fringe Award for “Most Outstanding Choreography”. In 2013 Lake was appointed inaugural Resident Director of Lucy Guerin Inc, which included working as Guerin’s choreographic assistant at Lyon Opera Ballet. Stephanie received a prestigious Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship in the same year and the Dame Peggy Van Praagh Choreographic Fellowship in 2012. She was the recipient of the Australia Council Fellowship for Dance for 2018-2019 and Chloe Munro AO Fellowship in 2022. From the 2025/26 season Stephanie Lake is Artist in Residence for the Semperoper Ballett.

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