Luke Dimattina —

Company Artist

Birthplace

Melbourne, Victoria

Age started dancing

Four

Training

Stapleton’s Dance Academy, Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School, Queensland Ballet Pre-Professional program

Queensland Ballet

Jette Parker Young Artist 2018

Favourite roles

Chinese dance in Ben Stevenson’s The Nutcracker

Repertoire includes

Ben Stevenson’s Swan Lake and The Nutcracker
Tim Harbour’s Volante
Garry Stewart’s Currently Under Investigation
Joseph Mazilier’s Paquita Pas de trois

Dance inspiration

Dancing every day at the Queensland Ballet, I’m constantly surrounded by many talented professional dancers. Their technical finesse is a credit to the work behind the dancers they are and inspiring in a way that pushes myself as a younger dancer to eventually reach such a high standard.

Awards and achievements

Awarded RAD Solo Seal
Finalist in the Sydney Eisteddfod Ballet Scholarship
Won 1st place in the Victorian Ballet Teacher’s Workshop
Paul Hammond foundation section 2015 and 2016