Jack Bertinshaw

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 an RBC Apprentice in 2011 and was promoted to First Soloist in 2018.  

Jack created the role of Norman McLaren in Guillaume Côté and Robert Lepage’s Frame by Frame, receiving a 2019 Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination for Outstanding Performance. He debuted as Charles Bovary in the world premiere of Helen Pickett’s Emma Bovary and performed in the Canadian premiere of James Kudelka’s Passion. Jack’s repertoire includes the title role in Pinocchio, Peter/The Nutcracker and Uncle Nikolai in The Nutcracker, Camille de Rosillon in The Merry Widow, Seryozha in Anna Karenina, Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, Benno and Rothbart in Swan Lake, Mitch in A Streetcar Named Desire, Gurn in La Sylphide, Brother Clown in The Winter’s Tale, Lescaut in Manon, Diamond Man in The Sleeping Beauty and Mad Hatter in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. He has also danced roles in Giselle, Cinderella, Onegin, Nijinsky, 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, MADDADDAM, The Concert, Carousel (A Dance), Piano Concerto #1, Emergence, Cacti, Being and Nothingness, Watch her, Night and The Dreamers Ever Leave You.  

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

Patron Award of Merit (2013)

Finalist at the Prix de Lausanne (2011)

Mary Day Artistry Award at the Youth America Grand Prix (2010)

Silver Medal at the Tanzolymp International Tanzfestival Berlin Competition (2010)