Olivia Findlay

British dancer Olivia Findlay is an Artist of The Royal Ballet. She joined The Royal Ballet’s Aud Jebsen Young Dancers Programme from the start of the 2021/22 Season and was promoted to Artist in 2023.

She trained at the Houston Ballet Academy before joining The Royal Ballet School. During her time at the School she was awarded first prize in the Lynn Seymour Award for Expressive Dance and received the London Ballet Circle’s Dame Ninette Award for the Most Outstanding Female Graduate of 2021. 

In the School’s annual summer matinee at the Royal Opera House, she danced Calliope in Elite Syncopations, Paquita, Goyo Montero’s Pulse, as well as a new work by Ashley Page, Mephisto Waltz, created on the students. While a student she danced with Houston Ballet in George Balanchine's Symphony in C and The Nutcracker and with Birmingham Royal Ballet in The Nutcracker. 

For the company she has created roles in Joshua Junker's Never Known and Mthuthuzeli November's For What It's Worth. Her roles for the company include Anemoi.