Amber Scott

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| birth_place = Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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| occupation = Ballet dancer

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Amber Scott is an Australian ballet dancer. She was a principal artist at The Australian Ballet before retiring in 2023 after 22 years with the company.{{cite web|url=https://australianballet.com.au/artist/amber-scott|title=Amber Scott|website=The Australian Ballet|access-date=25 April 2020}}

Early life

Scott was born and raised in Brisbane, Australia.{{cite web|url=https://thecarousel.com/beauty/fashion/celeb-style/australian-ballet/|title=Australian Ballet's Amber Scott On Discovering Ballet|work=The Carousel}} She started dance classes at age three and ballet at age five. She also attended jazz and tap classes. When Scott was eleven, her family relocated to Melbourne,{{cite web|url=https://www.frankixo.com/career/sleeping-beauty-the-australian-ballet-principal-artist-amber-scott|title=Sleeping Beauty: The Australian Ballet Principal Artist Amber Scott|work=FRANKIxo|access-date=25 April 2020}}{{Dead link|date=June 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} and she started training at The Australian Ballet School.

Career

Scott joined The Australian Ballet in 2001, at age 17. In 2003, she spent five months at the Royal Danish Ballet and learned the Bournonville method there. In 2011, Scott was promoted to Principal Artist after dancing the second movement in Kenneth MacMillan's Concerto. She has danced classical roles such as Princess Aurora and the Lilac Fairy in The Sleeping Beauty, Odette/Odile in Swan Lake, Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker, the title role in Manon and Tatiana in Onegin, as well as contemporary pieces such as Chroma and After the Rain.