[6] The family went to Canada when Gittens was nine, and from 2001 she trained at the Goh Ballet Academy in Vancouver, British Columbia.
[2] A photograph of her performance opposite Tyrone Singleton in Faster by David Bintley, director of the Birmingham company, appeared on the cover of Dance Europe magazine in the summer of 2012.
In 2019 she danced the rôle of the Queen of Hearts in Christopher Wheeldon's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with The Australian Ballet.
[3] A Guardian reviewer spoke of her "regal amplitude and attack" in the Serenade by George Balanchine at the London Coliseum in 2015.
[14] Of her performance at Sadler's Wells as Odette, the lead rôle in Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, in 2015, The Times wrote that her dancing was "frail and beautiful and ... completely alluring", while her technique was "a fabulous combination of control and flamboyance";[15] the Daily Telegraph called it "a lovely legato performance".