Ruby Ryburn

Ruby Ryburn joined the RNZB as the 2024 Todd Scholar. She was promoted to Artist for 2025. Ruby’s featured roles with the RNZB to date include Cygnets in Swan Lake (2024), Elizaveta in The Firebird (2025) and Hokey Pokey in The Nutcracker (2025). She has also choreographed two works for the company’s in-studio choreographic workshop, Voyages – “Thirst” (2024) and “You like Jazz?” (2025).  

Ruby undertook her early dance training at Mount Eden Ballet Academy in Auckland in various genres such as Ballet, Tap, Jazz and Contemporary before moving to the New Zealand School of Dance for full-time training in 2022. Here under the guidance of Christine Gunn, Ruby was awarded her RAD Solo seal, the highest level of achievement in the RAD syllabus. She also performed as a soloist in BOLD by Goyo Montero, while representing the NZSD in the 2023 Prix de Lausanne Partner School Project. 

Ruby seconded from the New Zealand School of Dance for the RNZB’s 70th Anniversary Lightscapes tour in July – August 2023, performing in George Balanchine’s Serenade in Wellington, Auckland and Christchurch. 

Ruby is supported by Julia Cuthbert.