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Dominique is a Leading Soloist for Northern Ballet and joined the Company in 2014. She was born in San Francisco, California and trained at the Ayako School of Ballet, Tanz Akademie Zürich and the Academy of Northern Ballet's Professional Graduate Programme.

During her time at Northern Ballet, Dominique has danced many principle roles including Daisy in The Great Gatsby, Juliet in Romeo & Juliet and the Sugarplum Fairy in The Nutcracker. In A Christmas Carol she'll be dancing Belle and The Ghost of Christmas Past.

She has been a Guest Performer for both Cape Town City Ballet and Southern California Ballet. She's also taught on Northern Ballet's Centre for Advanced Training (CAT) programme and Northern Ballet's Professional Graduate Programme, as well as at the Ayako School of Ballet.

Viki began ballet lessons at 5 years old, progressing to The Royal Ballet School at 11 and then continuing her training at the Hammond School, Chester. At the age of 17 she joined London Festival Ballet and spent 7 years there, dancing in all the major classics both in England and abroad - working with many inspirational people especially during the annual Nureyev seasons at the London Coliseum.  

In 1986, Viki joined Northern Ballet Theatre, becoming a principal the following year under the artistic directorship of Christopher Gable. She created many roles including the Stepmother in Cinderella, the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet , Mrs Fezziwig in A Christmas Carol and the Dancing Girl in Swan Lake as well as dancing the principal roles of Giselle, Juliet, Swanhilda (Coppelia), Odile (Swan Lake), Kitri (Don Quixote), Berthe Morisot (Memoire Imaginaire), Alice (Alice in Wonderland) and The Woman in Red (Lialsons Amoreuses). She was also noted for her performances of Queen of the Wilis in Giselle, Stepsister in Cinderella and Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet. Viki guested abroad dancing in New York and Florida and performing Odette/Odile throughout Germany.  

In 1996 Viki retired from the stage and began her teaching career at Northern Ballet when Chrisopher Gable asked her to take over the Associate class program. She became Head of Classical Dance at the Northern Ballet School in Manchester for 3 years and has also taught at London Studio Centre, Central School of Ballet and for the Scottish Ballet Associates, as well as guest teaching for the RAD regions, BBO and ISTD Northern Scholars. 

In 2003, David Nixon and Yoko Ichino invited Viki to the BalletMet summer school in Ohio, America where she began her training in the Ichino technique. Since that time, she has been an integral part of the Academy of Northern Ballet, and now has the pleasure of seeing many of her students dancing in professional companies - Northern Ballet, Scottish Ballet, Hamburg Ballet, Ballet Black, English National Ballet, and the Royal Ballet. She has taught for the Academy in many centres in Italy as part of the Formazione Tersichore programme. 

Viki writes and reviews for Dance Europe magazine and is a qualified Body Control Pilates reformer and mat work teacher.