Jemima Scott

Jemima Scott joined the Royal New Zealand Ballet in 2020 as a guest dancer for Venus Rising and The Sleeping Beauty. In 2021, Jemima officially joined the company as the inaugural Royal New Zealand Ballet Foundation Scholar. Jemima was promoted to Company Artist in 2022, and to Soloist in 2025.  

Jemima grew up in Wellington, New Zealand and started dancing at the age of four with Paula Hunt. She trained at Mt. Eden Ballet Academy, European School of Ballet, The National Ballet Theatre and the Bottaini Merlo International Center of Arts in Munich. Jemima was also a scholar and associate with the New Zealand School of Dance for six years. 

Before joining the RNZB, Jemima competed in the Prix De Lausanne (2020), came third in the Alana Haines Australasian Awards (2019), and won the ballet section at the Performing Arts Competition New Zealand (PACANZ). She also gained her RAD Solo Seal in 2018. 

During 2021, Jemima performed roles such as the main woman in Within Without by Andrea Schermoly, Wilis in Giselle, and as a corypheé in Paquita.  In 2022, she performed as Step-sister Madeleine and The Fairy Godmother in Loughlan Prior’s Cinderella, and had roles in Alice Topp’s Aurum, Sarah Foster-Sproull’s The Autumn Ball and Twyla Tharp’s Waterbaby Bagatelles™. In the Ballet Bites digital season, she performed in Alice Topp’s Absence of Light and Andrea Schermoly’s Within Without. Jemima’s roles in 2023 include the Dark Angel in Serenade, and the Ice Cream Witch in Hansel & Gretel. 2024 saw Jemima dance in the Pas de Trois and as a big swan in Swan Lake, in featured roles in Sarah Foster Sproull’s To Hold and Wayne McGregor’s Infra, and as Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Jemima is supported by Agincourt Holdings Ltd.