Vita
Mackenzie Brown grew up in Stafford, Virginia (USA). At the age of 3 years she began classes at the Barton & Williams School of Classical Dance, at the age of 9 she started her classical ballet as well at the “Classical Ballet of Fredericksburg”.
In 2016 she reached the finals at the Youth America Grand Prix in New York City and won a scholarship to the Académie de Danse Classique Princess Grace in Monte Carlo from which she graduated in 2020. In 2019 she participated at the Prix de Lausanne and won the Gold medal, the Contemporary Dance Prize as well as the Audience Favourite Prize. In March 2023 she won the Erik Bruhn Prize.
In the 2020/21 season Mackenzie Brown became a member of Stuttgart Ballet’s Corps de ballet, one season later she was promoted to Demi-Soloist, in 2022-23 to Soloist. After her debut as Juliet in John Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet in October 2023 she was promoted to Principal Dancer.
In 2016 she reached the finals at the Youth America Grand Prix in New York City and won a scholarship to the Académie de Danse Classique Princess Grace in Monte Carlo from which she graduated in 2020. In 2019 she participated at the Prix de Lausanne and won the Gold medal, the Contemporary Dance Prize as well as the Audience Favourite Prize. In March 2023 she won the Erik Bruhn Prize.
In the 2020/21 season Mackenzie Brown became a member of Stuttgart Ballet’s Corps de ballet, one season later she was promoted to Demi-Soloist, in 2022-23 to Soloist. After her debut as Juliet in John Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet in October 2023 she was promoted to Principal Dancer.
Repertoire
Leading Roles and Solo Roles with the Stuttgart Ballet
Specially created Roles
Specially created Roles at Noverre: Young Choreographers
Corps de ballet Roles with the Stuttgart Ballet
Corps de ballet Roles with Les Ballets de Monte Carlo
- Aurora's Nap (Johan Inger): Aurora
- Blake Works I (William Forsythe)
- Bliss (Johan Inger)
- Bouillards (John Cranko): Les Fées sont d'exquises danseuses
- Cassiopeia's Garden (Christian Spuck)
- Falling Angels (Jiří Kylián)
- Große Fuge (Hans van Manen)
- Initials R.B.M.E. (John Cranko): Solo Roles in the 1st and 2nd movement
- Kingdom of Shades, from: La Bayadère (Natalia Makarova after Marius Petipa): Nikija
- Mayerling (Kenneth MacMillan): Princess Louise
- One of a Kind (Jiří Kylián)
- Onegin (John Cranko): Olga
- Out of Breath (Johan Inger)
- Requiem (Kenneth MacMillan): Solo Role
- Romeo and Juliet (John Cranko): Juliet
- Self-Deceit (Vittoria Girelli)
- Spell on you (Marco Goecke)
- Swan Lake (John Cranko): Odette/Odile, big Swan, Pas de six
- The Lady of the Camellias (John Neumeier): Prudence Duvernoy
- The Sleeping Beauty (Marcia Haydée after Marius Petipa): Aurora, Ruby, Strength Fairy
- The Taming of the Shrew (John Cranko): Bianca, Pas de six
Specially created Roles
- A Dialog (Roman Novitzky)
- Aurora's Nap (Johan Inger): Corps de ballet
- Averno (Morgann Runacre-Temple): Persephone
- Einssein (Mauro Bigonzetti)
- In Esisto (Vittoria Girelli): Solo
- Leisure (Fabio Adorisio)
- Nachtmerrie (Marco Goecke)
- Reflection/s (Roman Novitzky): Solo
- Sospesi (Vittoria Girelli)
- SYMPHONY NO. 2 "Under the Trees' Voices" (David Dawson)
- The Place of Choice (Roman Novitzky): Solo
- Was bleibet (Alessandro Giaquinto)
Specially created Roles at Noverre: Young Choreographers
- Agoloy (Shaked Heller)
Corps de ballet Roles with the Stuttgart Ballet
- Mayerling (Kenneth MacMillan)
- Onegin (John Cranko)
- The Lady of the Camellias (John Neumeier)
- The Sleeping Beauty (Marcia Haydée after Marius Petipa)
Corps de ballet Roles with Les Ballets de Monte Carlo
- LAC (Jean-Christophe Maillot)
