Chelsy Meiss was born in Melbourne, Australia and trained at Karen Curlis School of Dance, Thelma Williams School of Dance, The Victorian College of The Arts and The Australian Ballet School in Melbourne. She danced with San Diego Ballet before joining The National Ballet of Canada as a member of the Corps de Ballet in 2008 and was promoted to First Soloist in 2015.
Chelsy made her debut as Juliet in the world premiere of Alexei Ratmansky’s acclaimed production of Romeo and Juliet in 2011 and has excelled in such roles as the Snow Queen in The Nutcracker, the female lead in Paz de la Jolla and in 2019, she made history as the first woman to perform the tap-dancing Mad Hatter in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Chelsy has danced roles such as Mother/Queen of Hearts in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Valencienne in The Merry Widow, Bee, Sheep and Baba in The Nutcracker, Bronislava in Nijinsky, Dolly in Anna Karenina, Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire, Spanish Soloist in Karen Kain’s Swan Lake, Spanish, Russian and Hungarian Soloist in James Kudelka’s Swan Lake, Petal and Twig in Cinderella, Spring in The Four Seasons and the female lead in Spectre de la Rose. Her repertoire also includes The Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, Onegin, The Winter’s Tale, Don Quixote, La Fille mal gardée, Manon, Pinocchio, La Sylphide, The Concert, The Four Temperaments, The Dream, Paquita, The Seagull, Carmen, Symphony in C, Serenade, Rubies, Opus 19/The Dreamer, Allegro Brillante, The Second Detail, The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude, Approximate Sonata 2016, Emergence, Angels’ Altas, MADDADDAM, Chroma, Genus, In The Upper Room, Glass Pieces, West Side Story Suite, Russian Seasons, Carousel (A Dance), Elite Syncopations, Emma Bovary, UtopiVerse, The Collective Agreement, Suite en Blanc, Concerto, Cacti, Being and Nothingness, Skyward, Crepuscular and Night.
In 2016, Chelsy was awarded the David Tory Award and was the recipient of the Patron Award of Merit in 2009.
She has appeared as a guest artist with San Diego Ballet and Skylar Campbell Dance Collective. Chelsy is also a well-regarded dance teacher and has taught for In Studio classes at The National Ballet of Canada.
