![Northern Ballet dancer Antoinette Brooks-Daw. Photo Lisa Stonehouse](/sites/default/files/styles/hero_banner_lrg/public/2020-03/Biography%2C-photoshoot%2C-2016%2C-dancer%2C-Antoinette-Brooks-Daw%2C-photo-Lisa-Stonehouse_0.jpg?h=e5aec6c8&itok=Aeh8T17F)
![Northern Ballet dancer Antoinette Brooks-Daw. Photo Lisa Stonehouse](/sites/default/files/styles/hero_banner_lrg/public/2020-03/Biography%2C-photoshoot%2C-2016%2C-dancer%2C-Antoinette-Brooks-Daw%2C-photo-Lisa-Stonehouse_0.jpg?h=e5aec6c8&itok=Aeh8T17F)
Antoinette is from Somerset and joined Northern Ballet in 2008. She trained at The Trull School of Dancing in Taunton and was a Junior Associate of the Royal Ballet School before joining the Royal Ballet School (Lower and Upper Schools). Antoinette retired from Northern Ballet in December 2021.
I was born in Taunton. Somerset and then shortly after moved to Hong Kong for a couple of years before returning to the UK at the age of 3.
I started dancing before I can even remember!
I trained at my mum's school, the Trull School of Dancing in Taunton up until the age of 11. I then studied at the Royal Ballet Lower School and then the Upper School.
I came second in Young British Dancer of the Year when I was 15 and won the Phyllis Bedells Bursary in 2004.
Cathy (Wuthering Heights), Daisy (The Great Gatsby) and Lucy (Dracula).
Dancing the role of Hippolyta/Titania from A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing.
Expressing oneself through movement and getting to listen to beautiful inspiring music everyday.
Harry Potter.
I love the author Lesley Pearse so anything by her.
Anything with a glass of wine!
Yoga, curling up with a good book and sleeping!
A musician!
Header photo taken by Lisa Stonehouse. Other photos taken by Riku Ito and Emma Kauldhar.