Coryphée
Born in Brisbane, Australia, Amber Lewis trained at Ecole Studios and The Washington School of Ballet. While in school, she was a 2008 Youth America Grand Prix finalist. She danced with The Washington Ballet and Ballet Arizona before joining Hong Kong Ballet in 2019 as a Coryphée.
With Hong Kong Ballet, Lewis has danced the principal and featured roles of Clara in Terence Kohler’s The Nutcracker and Princess Tiger Lily and Curly in Septime Webre’s Peter Pan and performed in John Meehan’s Swan Lake and Corey Baker’s Lying Together. Prior to joining the Company, she performed as Juliet in Ib Andersen’s Romeo and Juliet, Gamzatti in Andersen’s La Bayadere and Sugar Plum and Dew Drop Fairy in Webre’s The Nutcracker. Lewis has also danced leading and featured roles in works by George Balanchine, Alexei Ratmansky, Anna-Marie Holmes, Twyla Tharp, Edwaard Liang, Justin Peck and Annabelle Lopez Ochoa.