Biography
Brett van Sickle was born in Hamilton,
Ontario and received his training at Canada’s National
Ballet School,
School of American
Ballet and Dutch
National Ballet
School.
Mr. van Sickle
danced with American Ballet Theatre, San Francisco Ballet, Dutch National
Ballet and Nacho Duato’s Campania Nacional de Danza before
joining The National Ballet of Canada in 2006. He was promoted to First Soloist
in 2011.
Recently,
Mr. Van Sickle performed the role of Paris in the world premiere of Romeo and Juliet by Alexei Ratmansky. He
also danced the featured role of the Caterpillar in the North American premiere
of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by
Christopher Wheeldon as well as Laertes
and Polonius in the North American premiere of Hamlet by Kevin O’Day.
Mr.
van Sickle’s repertoire includes Swan
Lake, Onegin, The Sleeping
Beauty, Giselle, The Nutcracker, The Seagull, Opus 19/The Dreamer, The Four Temperaments, Mozartiana,
Song of the Earth, Elite Syncopations, Polyphonia,Glass
Pieces, Chroma, Russian Seasons and
Emergence.
In
2010, Mr. van Sickle danced with the company in 24 Preludes by Chopin at the Cultural Olympiad at the Winter
Olympics in Vancouver.
Quotes
Onegin
“Brett van Sickle as
Lensky and Bridgett Zehr as Olga danced seamlessly, creating a glorious rapport
that gave the ballet its second romantic heartbeat.”
Ballet Review, 2010
Swan Lake
“Brett van Sickle an elegant airborne Benno"
The Hamilton Spectator, 2010
Romeo and Juliet
“The dancer in the thankless role of Count Paris has to be tall and stately, but Brett van Sickle was more than that. One could feel his distress at Juliet's reluctance to his wooing, and his distaste for the Capulets and their tyrannical insistence on the marriage.”
The Globe and Mail, 2009