Born in Tasmania (Australia) in 1993, Samantha began her professional studies at the age of 16 under a scholarship at the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School in Melbourne. At the age of 17, she represented her country at the International Cecchetti Ballet Competition in Manchester, (United Kingdom), becaming a finalist.
At the age of 18, she left Australia to live in New Zealand for 3 years. Here she studied for a scholarship at the New Zealand School of Dance and danced choreographic works by Edmund Stripe, Val Caniparoli, Jo Funaki, George Balanchine, Nils Christie as well as participating in Swan Lake with the Royal New Zealand Ballet under the direction of Ethan Steifl.
From 2015 to 2018, she danced with the Víctor Ullate Ballet in Madrid, participating in ballets such as El Sur, El Amor Brujo, Pastoral, Carmen, Jaleos, Samsara, Tierra Madre, El Arte de la Danza and Bolero, among others.
She then joined the Leipziger Ballet – Oper Leipzig (Germany), wheres she worked with repertoire by Mario Schröder, Martin Harriague, Uwe Scholz, Cayetano Soto, Edward Clug, Stanton Welsh, Jean Phillippe Dury, Jeroen Verbruggen. Here she also danced as the lead in Faust, by Edward Clug (specifically in the role of Gretchen), as a soloist in Uneven by Cayetano Soto, as a soloist in Prince by Martin Harriague, and as a soloist in Magnificat by Mario Schröder.
In September 2022, she joined the Compañía Nacional de Danza under the artistic direction of Joaquín De Luz where she continues today under the artistic direction of Muriel Romero.
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