Olivia Powell is a native of the Boston area and received her ballet training from the Boston Ballet School. She attended New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts’ dance department and received her BFA with first class honors at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.
Ms. Powell then joined The Alabama Ballet where she performed in works such as George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker, as the dew drop fairy, and Tarantella. She also performed in Jiri Kylian’s Sechs Tanze, Agnes De Mille’s Rodeo, and Roger Van Fleteren’s Romeo and Juliet and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
In 2014, she joined Ballet Memphis where she worked with many choreographers including Mark Godden, Steven McMahon, Uri Sands, Joshua L. Peugh, Gabrielle Lamb, Julia Adam and Julie Marie Niekrasz. Ms. Powell has also choreographed several works for Ballet Memphis’ “Pairings” and The Alabama Ballet’s “Choreographic Showcase”.
Ms. Powell has performed as a principal guest artist in many companies around the country such as: Colton Ballet, Lively Arts Foundation, Western Arkansas Ballet, Foothills Dance Conservatory, and New England Ballet Ensemble.
Since joining Diablo Ballet in 2019, Ms. Powell has performed in ballets by Julia Adam, Val Caniparoli, Sean Kelly, Bruno Roche, Penny Saunders, Sally Streets, Stanton Welch, Brian Enos, and Michael Wells. She has danced the female variation in Esmeralda, The Black Swan Pas de Deux, Swanhilda in Coppélia and in George Balanchine’s Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, Who Cares?, and principal in Donizetti Variations.