Macy Cook

Macy Cook joined the RNZB as one of two Friedlander Foundation Scholars in 2021. And became an Artist in 2023. 

Born in Wellington, Macy trained at Chilton Ballet Academy pre-professionally and was a Scholar and Associate with the New Zealand School of Dance. At age thirteen, she won the Supreme A section of the Alana Haines Australasian Awards, gaining direct entry to the Youth American Grand Prix Finals in New York in 2018 and a San Francisco Ballet School Summer Intensive scholarship.  

Macy was selected for the RNZB National Mentor Programme and completed an internship with the RNZB in 2019, before joining Houston Ballet Academy’s Professional Program on a training scholarship. During this time, she performed with the Houston Ballet in Stanton Welch’s The Nutcracker before returning to New Zealand to join the RNZB as a guest dancer for The Sleeping Beauty. She also danced in Sarah Foster-Sproull’s The Autumn Ball at the Festival of Colour in Wanaka 2021 and Liam Scarlett’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In 2021 she performed in works such as Sarah Foster-Sproull’s Ultra Folly and Andrea Schermoly’s Within Without.  

In 2023 Macy performed in Andrea Schermoly’s Romeo and Juliet as a Harlot and Juliet’s Friend. Closely followed by the season of Lightscapes, in which she danced George Balanchine’s Serenade, Alice Topp’s Logos and Requiem for a Rose by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa. The Smoke Pas de deux in Logos was a career highlight to date for her, as was dancing her first principal role of Gretel in Loughlan Prior’s Hansel and Gretel at the end of 2023.