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Biography

Jack Bertinshaw was born in Sydney, Australia and trained at the Tanya Pearson Classical Coaching Academy in Australia and the Tanz Akademie Zürich in Switzerland. Jack joined The National Ballet of Canada as a RBC Apprentice in 2011 and was promoted to First Soloist in 2018.

“Jack Bertinshaw has found depths of his own to add to his portrayal of Mercutio, particularly during that torturously drawn-out death scene.”
Toronto Star

Jack created the role of Norman McLaren in the world premiere of Guillaume Côté and Robert Lepage’s Frame by Frame, receiving a 2019 Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination for Outstanding Performance. His repertoire includes the title role in Pinocchio, Peter/The Nutcracker in The Nutcracker, Camille de Rosillon in The Merry Widow, Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, Benno in Swan Lake, Mitch in A Streetcar Named Desire, Lescaut in Manon, Gurn in La Sylphide and Mad Hatter in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. He has also danced roles in The Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, Cinderella, Onegin, Nijinsky, Anna Karenina, The Winter’s Tale, La Fille mal gardée, The Seagull, Allegro Brillante, The Four Temperaments, Rubies, Theme and Variations, A Month in the Country, Paquita, The Four Seasons, The Second Detail, The Concert, Carousel (A Dance), Piano Concerto #1, Angels’ Atlas, Emergence, Cacti, Being and Nothingness, Watch her, Night, Orpheus Alive and The Dreamers Ever Leave You.

Jack was awarded the Patron Award of Merit in 2013. He was also a finalist at the Prix de Lausanne in 2011 and received the Mary Day Artistry Award at the Youth America Grand Prix and the Silver Medal at the Tanzolymp in 2010.

Jack Bertinshaw is sponsored through Dancers First by an anonymous donor.