Simon Mumme

Birthplace

Melbourne, Australia

Started Dancing

Age 16

Previous Companies

Queensland Ballet

Joined The Sarasota Ballet

2007, Promoted to Soloist in 2010

Favorite Roles

Pas de Six in Sir Peter Wrights Giselle, Matthew Bourne's The Infernal Galop, Dancing Master and Man with the Rope in Dame Ninette de Valois' The Rake's Progress

Career Highlights

Dancing Twyla Tharp's In The Upper Room

Roles I would like to dance

Andrew Killian's Double You

Repertoire

Lead and featured roles include:  George Balanchine's Allegro Brillante, Donizetti Variations, Who Cares?;  Sir Frederick Ashton's Facade, The Two Pigeons, Les Patineurs, Les Rendezvous;  Robert North's Troy Games;  Sir Antony Tudor's Lilac Garden;  Dame Ninette de Valois' Checkmate, The Rake's Progress;  David Bintley's Scottish Dances;  Will Tuckett's Spielende Kinder;  Twyla Tharp's In The Upper Room;  Joe Layton's The Grand Tour;  Johan Kobborg's production of August Bournonville's Napoli;  Andre Prokovsky's Anna Karenina, Vespri;  Dominic Walsh's Wolfgang for Webb, I Napoletani The Trilogy, Clair de Lune;  John Cranko's Pineapple Poll;  The Nutcracker;  Sir Peter Wright's Giselle (Pas de Six);  Matthew Bourne's The Infernal Galop, Boutique;  Sir Kenneth MacMillan's Elite Syncopations and Peter Darrell's Othello.