Calley Skalnik

Calley Skalnik was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and trained at Tulsa Ballet in Oklahoma and Canada’s National Ballet School. Calley joined The National Ballet of Canada as an RBC Apprentice in 2014 and was promoted to First Soloist in 2021.  

Most recently, Calley danced in the Canadian premiere of James Kudelka’s Passion, the North American premiere of Carlos Acosta’s Don Quixote and the Lead Female Technique in Rubies. She has danced roles such as Princess Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty, The Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker, the title role in Cinderella, Russian Dance in Swan Lake and Kitty in the North American premiere of Anna Karenina. Her repertoire includes Romeo and Juliet, Giselle, Onegin, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The Winter’s Tale, Nijinsky, The Merry Widow, Pinocchio, A Streetcar Named Desire, Manon, La Sylphide, The Dream, Paquita, The Four Seasons, The Second Detail, The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude, The Four Temperaments, Genus, MADDADDAM, Symphony #9, Emergence, Angels’ Atlas, Anima Animus, Diamonds, Suite en Blanc, Serenade, Symphony in C, Paz de la Jolla, After the Rain, Concerto, The Collective Agreement, Frame by Frame, Le Petit Prince, Skyward and Self and Soul. 

In 2016, Calley represented the National Ballet in The International Competition for the Erik Bruhn Prize.