On a travel scholarship, she continued her studies with Gelsey Kirkland in New York where in 1997 she also worked with Twyla Tharp on The Storyteller.
After a few years with the AB, in 2000 she and her husband Damien Welch joined the Nederlands Dans Theater in The Hague where she danced in contemporary works choreographed by Jiří Kylián, Johan Inger and Paul Lightfoot.
[5][6] Back with the AB, she performed in Graeme Murphy's Swan Lake and in the 2003 revival of André Prokovsky's The Three Musketeers, earning a promotion to principal dancer.
Her 2007 repertoire included Don Quixote, Apollo, After the Rain, Paquita, Symphonie Fantastique, Les Présages.
[7] Awarded the Prix Benois de la Danse in 2009, she was the first Australian,[8] and first member of the AB to win the prize.