Joffrey History | Artist Detail | Management
Trinity Hamilton joined The Joffrey Ballet of Chicago in July 1996, after dancing with Salt Creek Ballet in 1994.
In 1998, Ms. Hamilton has a role created for her in Gerald Arpino’s FOOTNOTES FOR RJ; and in 1999 she danced the female lead in Gerald Arpino’s LIGHT RAIN and Nellie Bly in Ruth Page and Bentley Stone’s FRANKIE & JOHNNY.
As a member of the Salt Creek Ballet, Ms. Hamilton danced the roles of the Sugar Plum Fairy and Snow Queen in THE NUTCRACKER, the Diamond variation in SLEEPING BEAUTY, and Taglioni in PAS DE QUATRE.
Ms. Hamilton began her ballet training at age four with Nora Curran in Naperville, Ill. She studied under Maria Tallchief of the Chicago City Ballet for two years before remaining for 12 years at the Salt Creek Ballet School, studying with Patricia Sigurdson.
At age 13, Hamilton choreographed a piece that was accepted into the Midwest Regional Festival, and won a full scholarship to a dance conference as an emerging choreographer. Hamilton has also won dance prizes at the Carey Rose Winski Competition (1st and 2nd place) and at the Arts and Letters Competition (2nd place), and received a full dance scholarship to Butler University in Indianapolis.
In 1997, Ms. Hamilton was nominated for the Princess Grace Award.
She has appeared as a dancer on television in a Chicago tourism commercial, in industrial films, and will appear in Paramount Pictures’ “Save the Last Dance” later this year.