Hamilton Nieh

Born in Washington DC, USA, Hamilton Nieh received his early ballet training in Hong Kong and Seattle. His first experiences on stage include child roles in ballets such as George Balanchine’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Pacific Northwest Ballet and Seryozha in André Prokovsky’s Anna Karenina with Hong Kong Ballet.

At age 16 he was granted a full scholarship to study at San Francisco Ballet School. Two years later, Hamilton was invited by Víctor Ullate to train at his school in Madrid, Spain where he began his professional career as an apprentice to his company, Víctor Ullate Ballet.

Hamilton danced with Sacramento Ballet, Alberta Ballet and Luna Negra Dance Theater before joining Les Grands Ballets under Gradimir Pankov’s direction in 2011. In 2013 Hamilton moved to France to join Ballet de l’Opéra national du Rhin under the direction of Ivan Cavallari with whom he returned to Les Grands Ballets in 2017. He was promoted to demi-soloist in 2022.

Lead and solo roles:

• Romeo in Ivan Cavallari’s Romeo and Juliet
• Julien Sorel in Uwe Scholz’s Le Rouge et le noir
• Carabosse and Spanish Prince in Marcia Haydée’s The Sleeping Beauty
• Hilarion in Ivan Cavallari’s Giselle
• The Boy in Bridget Breiner’s The Firebird
• Professor Nicholas in Ivan Cavallari’s The Enchanted Gift
• Peter in Ivan Cavallari’s "Casse-Noisette*
• 4th movement in Uwe Scholz’s Symphony No. 7
• Spring in Mauro Bigonzetti’s The Four Seasons
• Geppetto in Ivan Cavallari’s Pinocchio
• Roméo in Bertrand d’At’s Roméo et Juliette
• Peter Quanz’s Blushing
• Asaf Messerer’s Spring Waters
• Edgar Zendejas’s Sonata de Luna
• Solo role in Stephen Thoss’s La Chambre Noire
• Michaelis in Cathy Marston’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover
• Solo role in Garett Smith’s Symphony No 5
• “Waltz of the Flowers” pas de deux, Trepak ‘Ivan’ and ‘Le berger en massepain’ in Fernand Nault’s The Nutcracker
• Luigi Carbone in Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s Vendetta
• Solo role in Andrew Skeels’s Requiem
• Young couple in Étienne Béchard’s Cupidon s’en fout
• Solo role in Jiří Kylián’s Kaguyahime
• Solo role in Uwe Scholz’s The Creation
• Solo role in Aszure Barton’s Untouched
• Orange couple in Benjamin Millepied’s Without
• 2nd pas de deux in Heinz Spoerli’s Goldberg Variations
• Solo role in Stephen Thoss’s The Rite of Spring
• Marcos Morau’s Marbre
• Stijn Celis’s Anima
• Solo role in Douglas Lee’s Ophelia Madness and Death
• Solo role in Thierry Malandain’s Le sang des étoiles
• Solo role in Vanesa GR Montoya’s From the Sun to the Moon
• Solo role in Vanesa GR Montoya’s Fuego
• Solo role in Marwik Schmitt’s Spectre, Story of Lonely Souls
• Quartet in Mauro Bigonzetti’s Cantata
• Solo role in Ed Wubbe’s Dans le ciel noir
• Lead role in Didier Merle’s Ne me quitte pas
• Born/die, Kill, Heal and Embrace in José Limón’s There is a time
• Solo role in Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s Nube Blanco
• Improvisation solo with Paquito D’Rivera in Eduardo Vilaro’s Danzon
• Solo role in Gustavo Ramirez Sansano’s Flabbergast
• Solo role in Fernando Melo’s Bate
• Lead role in George Balanchine’s Divertimento No. 15
• George Balanchine’s Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux
• Waltz Boy in George Balanchine’s Serenade
• “Who Cares?” pas de deux in George Balanchine’s Who Cares?
• George Balanchine’s Nutcracker Pas de Deux
• Second theme in George Balanchine’s The Four Temperaments
• Death in Jean Grand Maître’s Requiem
• Grand pas de deux, Pastorale and Arabian pas de deux in Mikko Nissinen’s The Nutcracker
• Solo role in Helen Pickett’s Amaranthine
• Peter Quanz’s She guards her secret

Roles created on him:

• Romeo in Ivan Cavallari’s Romeo and Juliet
• Professor Nicholas in Ivan Cavallari’s The Enchanted Gift
• Garett Smith’s Symphony No 5
• Étienne Béchard’s The Rite of Spring
• Young couple in Étienne Béchard’s Cupidon s’en fout
• Marcos Morau’s Marbre
• Andrew Skeels’s Vessel
• Andrew Skeels’s Requiem
• Vanesa GR Montoya’s From the Sun to the Moon
• Marwik Schmitt’s Spectre, Story of Lonely Souls
• Ed Wubbe’s Dans le ciel noir
• Didier Merle’s Ne me quitte pas
• Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s Nube Blanco
• Improvisation with Paquito D’Rivera in Eduardo Vilaro’s Danzon
• Death in Jean Grand Maître’s Requiem
• Jean Grand Maître’s The Fiddle and the Drum
• Helen Pickett’s Amaranthine
• Peter Quanz’s She guards her secret