Tristan Simpson

Corps de ballet

Tristan Simpson

Corps de ballet

Vita

Tristan Simpson was born in Ventura County (California, USA). He began his training at the age of 10 years at the Bobbies School of Performing Arts and took classes in all styles of dance. In 2016 he took part in the Youth America Grand Prix in New York City where he reached the finals and won a scholarship for the Houston Ballet Academy. There he continued his ballet training from 2016 to 2018. Subsequently he came to the John Cranko Schule Stuttgart from which he graduated in 2020.

In the 2020/21 season Tristan Simpson was an apprentice with the Stuttgart Ballet before he became a member of Stuttgart Ballet's Corps de ballet in the following season.
Photo Roman Novitzky

Repertoire

Solo Roles with the Stuttgart Ballet
  • Blake Works I (William Forsythe)
  • Bridges (David Moore)
  • The Nutcracker (Edward Clug): Harlequin
  • The Sleeping Beauty (Marcia Haydée after Marius Petipa): Cavalier
  • The Taming of the Shrew )John Cranko): Servant

Specially created Roles
  • Averno (Morgann Runacre-Temple): oil
  • In Esisto (Vittoria Girelli): Corps

Corps de ballet roles with the Stuttgart Ballet
  • Aurora's Nap (Johan Inger)
  • Initials R.B.M.E. (John Cranko)
  • Mayerling (Kenneth MacMillan)
  • Onegin (John Cranko)
  • Opus 1 (John Cranko)
  • Part of: Spuren (John Cranko)
  • Requiem (Kenneth MacMillan)
  • Romeo and Juliet (John Cranko)
  • Seventh Symphony (Uwe Scholz)
  • The Lady of the Camellias (John Neumeier)
  • The Nutcracker (Edward Clug): mouse
  • The Sleeping Beauty (Marcia Haydée after Petipa)
  • The Taming of the Shrew (John Cranko)

Corps de ballet-Roles with Houston Ballet
  • The Nutcracker (Stanton Welch): Waltz of the Flowers