William Trevitt (1967-). Dancer, director, choreographer and filmmaker

William Trevitt was born in Cambridge in 1967. He studied at The Royal Ballet School and joined The Royal Ballet in 1985, becoming a principal in 1994. In 1999, along with his colleague Michael Nunn, he left The Royal Ballet to become a founding member of K Ballet in Japan. 

In 2001, with Nunn, Trevitt founded BalletBoyz, a modern dance group for which he developed his interest in film and photography along with his choreographic and directorial talent. (BalletBoyz actually began with a series of television documentaries on the lives of Trevitt and Nunn as classical ballet dancers.) As a dance company, BalletBoyz has featured works by William Forsythe, Michael Clark, Akram Khan, Christopher Wheeldon, Matthew Bourne and Javier de Frutos, among many others. BalletBoyz has its own dance studio and premises based in Kingston-upon-Thames. Films by the BalletBoyz include pieces on Russell Maliphant and Darcey Bussell, and on Christopher Wheeldon as he worked with the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow. Trevitt was appointed an OBE for his services to dance in 2012.