Garrett Ammon
Artistic Director
Garrett was born in Blythe, California and found his way to dance through choral music and theatre. He began studying ballet with Kim Swimmer and Ballet Etudes in Mesa, Arizona. He continued his training at City Ballet of San Diego before joining Houston Ballet Academy in 1994.
In 1996, Garrett joined Houston Ballet for two seasons. He went on to dance with Oregon Ballet Theatre before joining Ballet Memphis in 1999. Described as “a superb technical dancer and theatrical artist” by the Willamette Week, Garrett has performed a large and diverse repertoire of work. He has danced lead roles in world premieres by Trey McIntyre, Julia Adam, Mark Godden, Lila York and Ben Stevenson, as well as principal roles in ballets by George Balanchine, Denise Shultze, Bebe Miller, Septime Webre and Donald Byrd. Garrett is also a founding member of the acclaimed Trey McIntyre Project and the founding Artistic Director of interiorworks, a dancer-produced show at Ballet Memphis that benefits the Artists’ Resource Fund. The success of interiorworks shows through in the broad repertoire of Ballet Memphis, which now includes more than twenty-five ballets by company artists who began making works for the production.
Garrett is married to Associate Artistic Director Dawn Fay and works closely with her on all of his choreographic work.