Rebecca Myles Stewart

Rebecca Myles Stewart joined The Royal Ballet’s Aud Jebsen Young Dancers programme at the beginning of the 2024/25 Season.  

Raised in Glenn Dale, Maryland, Rebecca Myles Stewart began dancing at age 4 in all genres of dance. Training at local studios and briefly at Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, she studied primarily under the tutelage of Andrea Long and Stanislav Issaev. Rebecca has garnered many awards at Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP), and also performed in New York City as Clara in the Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes.  

In 2021, she joined The Royal Ballet Upper School. Whilst there, she won 2nd prize in the Lynn Seymour Award for Expressive Dance. In her graduate year, she participated in the Rhythm in Resilience festival at the Royal Opera House, as a part of Autumn Draft Works and Insights: Ballet and the Black Experience. Rebecca also took part in The Royal Ballet’s Insight collaboration with Dance Theatre of Harlem, Black Dancers in Ballet – Sharing a Rich Trans-Atlantic Legacy.  

 Performances whilst at the School include Frederick Ashton’s Swan Lake pas de douze, Goyo Montero’s BOLD, Jerome Robbins’ Mistake Waltz, and Marius Petipa’s Paquita in the summer performances. She also performed in Don Quixote, The Nutcracker, Manon, and Swan Lake with the Company. In April of 2024, she represented the School at the Gala des Écoles de danse, performing excerpts from Ashton’s Rhapsody at the Palais Garnier.