Guest Faculty and Choreographer
Co-Director and Ballet Master, Ballet Hagen
Nadia Thompson is a Ballet Master, Master Teacher, Repetiteur and Choreographer, and has held faculty positions at prominent ballet companies all over the world. She is the Former Ballet Mistress at Royal New Zealand Ballet and Milwaukee Ballet; and she is a Repetiteur for, and stages ballets for numerous choreographers, such as Riccardo De Nigris, Michael Pink, and Timothy O’Donnell.
Ms. Thompson trained at the Royal Ballet School, in London, and at the Frances Davis Thompson School of Ballet, in Brisbane Australia. Dancing as a leading artist throughout Europe and the USA with Boston Ballet, Northern Ballet Theatre and London City Ballet, Ms. Thompson performed all major roles in the classical repertoire and created many modern and contemporary works working with Twyla Tharp, Merce Cunningham, Mark Morris and Lila York, among others. She obtained her Solo Seal and was awarded the Adeline Genee Bronze medal by Dame Margot Fonteyn. Ms. Thompson has taught and coached throughout Europe, Australia and the United States, with guest appointments as Master Teacher and Repetiteur, for dozens of companies, including English National Ballet, Royal Ballet, Polish National Ballet, Atlanta Ballet, Orlando Ballet, and Kansas City Ballet.
