Elizabeth Mason was born in Virginia, USA. She received her first ballet training at the Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington D.C. Later, she was trained at the John Cranko Schule in Stuttgart. As a student, Elizabeth Mason took part in the Prix de Lausanne in January 2000, where she danced A Green Place, created for her by Douglas Lee. She was awarded as Semi-Finalist.
After graduating in 2001, she became an apprentice with the Stuttgart Ballet. In the following season she was taken into the Corps de ballet. In 2005/06 she was promoted to Demi Soloist, in 2007/08 to Soloist. Her promotion to Principal Dancer followed in 2008/09.
REPERTOIRE
Leading Roles with the Stuttgart Ballet- Avatar (Matjash Mrozewski)
- Dances at a Gathering (Jerome Robbins): Role in Apricot
- Das Fräulein von S. (Christian Spuck): Madelon, Cardillac’s daughter
- Don Quijote (Maximiliano Guerra): Dulcinea
- Dream of Galilei (William Forsythe): Pas de trois
- Forgotten Land (Othello (Jiří Kylián): Couple in White
- From Holberg’s time (John Cranko)
- Gaîté Parisienne (Maurice Béjart): The young girl in white
- Giselle (Production: Reid Anderson, Valentina Savina): Giselle, Peasant-Pas de deux
- Initials R.B.M.E. (John Cranko)
- La fille mal gardée (Sir Frederick Ashton): Lise
- La Sylphide (Peter Schaufuss after August Bournonville): The Sylph
- Le Corsaire (Marius Petipa): Pas de deux, for a gala
- Leonce and Lena (Christian Spuck): Lena
- Lulu. A Monstre Tragedy (Christian Spuck): Lulu
- Onegin (John Cranko): Olga
- Opus 1 (John Cranko)
- Orlando (Marco Goecke): Queen Elizabeth I.
- Othello (John Neumeier): Desdemona
- Requiem (Kenneth MacMillan): “leading role”
- Romeo and Juliet (John Cranko): Juliet
- Slice to Sharp (Jorma Elo)
- Swan Lake (John Cranko): Pas de six, Pas de quatre, Princess of Russia
- The Lady of the Camellias (John Neumeier): Marguerite Gautier
- The Sleeping Beauty (Márcia Haydée after Marius Petipa): Princess Aurora, The Blue Bird’s Princess, Eloquence-Fairy
- The Song of the Earth (Kenneth MacMillan): solo role in the Third Theme
- The Taming of the Shrew (John Cranko): Bianca
- The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude (William Forsythe)
Specially created Roles- A Green Place (Douglas Lee)
- Igor Poems (Kevin O’Day)
- Il Concertone (Mauro Bigonzetti)
- RED in 3. (Jorma Elo)
- Viewing Room (Douglas Lee)
Specially created Roles at Noverre-Society: Young Choreographers - Denial of service (Alexander Makaschin)
- Le Bal de Bals (Selatin Kara)
- Slight Erosion (Brent Parolin)
Corps de ballet Roles with the Stuttgart Ballet- ..., la peau blanche... (Christian Spuck)
- A Streetcar named Desire (John Neumeier)
- Avatar (Matjash Mrozewski)
- das siebte blau (Christian Spuck)
- dreamdeepdown (Kevin O’Day)
- Gaîté parisienne (Maurice Béjart)
- Giselle (Production: Reid Anderson, Valentina Savina)
- Goecke at the Kammertheater : The Nutcracker (Marco Goecke)
- Hikarizatto (Itzik Galili)
- La Fille mal gardée (Sir Frederick Ashton)
- La Sylphide (Peter Schaufuss, after August Bournonville)
- Le sacre du printemps (Glen Tetley)
- Les Sylphides (Michail Fokine)
- Lulu. A Monstre Tragedy (Christian Spuck)
- melodious gimmick to keep the boys in line (Marc Spradling)
- Nautilus (Wayne McGregor)
- Onegin (John Cranko)
- Romeo and Juliet (John Cranko)
- Serenade (George Balanchine)
- Seventh Symphony (Uwe Scholz)
- Stravinsky Violin Concerto (George Balanchine)
- Swan Lake (John Cranko)
- Sweet Sweet Sweet (Marco Goecke)
- Symphony in C (George Balanchine)
- The four Temperaments (George Balanchine)
- The Lady of the Camellias (John Neumeier)
- The Sandman (Christian Spuck)
- The Sleeping Beauty (Márcia Haydée after Marius Petipa): Aurora’s Friend
- The Taming of the Shrew (John Cranko)
- Voluntaries (Glen Tetley)