Daniel Gaudiello
Brisbane-born Daniel Gaudiello strapped on his first pair of dancing shoes at the age of six at the Johnny Young Talent School, then at Promenade Dance Academy. Later he completed the Queensland Dance School of Excellence and Queensland Ballet professional year before being accepted into The Australian Ballet School, where he participated as an exchange student with The National Ballet School of Canada and the School of American Ballet in New York. Daniel joined The Australian Ballet first seconded out of his last year of the ballet school in 2003 and then formally in 2004 and in early 2007, on scholarship, participated in classes with some of the world’s finest ballet companies in London, Amsterdam, Munich and Paris. Daniel made his choreographic debut with a piece called Notte in Bianco for Bodytorque. To the Pointe in 2009, then South of Eden and Tristan and Isolde. Daniel was promoted to Principal Artist in 2010. He recently left The Australian Ballet to pursue other ventures including acting on film.
Daniel’s principal roles with The Australian Ballet include both Des Grieux and Lescaut in Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon, Basilio in Rudolf Nureyev’s production of Don Quixote (2010), Petrouchka in Petrouchka (2009), the Prince in Alexei Ratmansky’s Cinderella (2013), Siegfried in Stephen Baynes’ Swan Lake (2012), Franz in Peggy van Praagh’s Coppélia (2010) and works by Christopher Wheeldon and Jiří Kylián. As a guest artist, he has appeared with Houston Ballet, Singapore Dance Theatre, New Zealand Ballet, Queensland Ballet, West Australian Ballet and English National Ballet. He was the recipient of the 2011 Australian Dance Award for outstanding performance by a male dancer in Coppélia, a Green Room Award and was nominated for three Helpmann Awards for most outstanding male dancer. Recently Daniel has co-produced and choreographed his first feature film The Red Shoes – The Next Step which premiered at the box office in 2023.
“Daniel is not only an exceptional ballet coach and former principal artist, but an actor, producer and choreographer. I was lucky enough that our careers crossed paths during Queensland Ballet’s premiere season of Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet. His energy and passion are infectious and his delivery of nuance in storytelling is truly outstanding. I’m so thrilled he will be sharing his expertise during the December Intensive. What a privilege!” – Clare Morehen, BTQ Artistic Director