BIG MOVEMENTS AT THE ROYAL BALLET OF LONDON
The Royal Ballet´s The Dream
(Photo: BalletNews.com)
The Royal Ballet through the voice of his director has annouced big movents
in the upcoming season:
“Director Kevin
O’Hare has made the following promotions for the forthcoming Season:
Alexander Campbell,
Francesca Hayward, Ryoichi Hirano and Akane Takada have been promoted to
Principal, the Company’s highest rank.
Claire Calvert, Yasmine
Naghdi and Beatriz Stix-Brunell are promoted to First Soloists. Matthew
Ball and Mayara Magri are promoted to Soloists. Tierney Heap was promoted to
First Artist mid-season and is also now promoted to Soloist.
Reece Clarke, David
Donnelly, Benjamin Ella, Isabella Gasparini, Anna Rose O’Sullivan and Demelza
Parish are promoted to First Artist.
Joining the Company at
the start of the Season will be Joseph Sissens from The Royal Ballet School.
All the 2015/16 Aud Jebsen Young Dancers – Lukas Bjørneboe Brændsrød, Harry
Churches, Leo Dixon, Isabel Lubach and Julia Roscoe – will join the Company
from The Royal Ballet School on permanent contracts as Artists. Mica Bradbury
also joined the Company mid-season as an Artist.
The Royal Ballet
welcomes seven dancers to the Company for the 2016/17 Aud Jebsen Young Dancers
Programme. The programme provides an opportunity for recently graduated dancers
to receive a year’s contract to work alongside the corps de ballet of The Royal
Ballet. In addition the dancers are offered mentoring and coaching and have the
opportunity to perform with the Company. Next Season’s Aud Jebsen Young
Dancers are Joseph Aumeer, Estelle Bovay, Maria Luisa Castillo Yoshida, Arianna
Maldini, Giacomo Rovero, Francisco Serrano and Charlotte Tonkinson, all from
The Royal Ballet School.
Vincenzo Di Primo joins the Company as Prix de
Lausanne dancer.
Charlotte Edmonds will continue with The Royal Ballet for
the 2016/17 Season for a second year on The Royal Ballet Young Choreographer
Programme mentored by Kevin O’Hare and Wayne McGregor. The Young Choreographer
Programme is a position for an emerging choreographer to shadow Royal Ballet
and visiting choreographers and utilize the Company resources to create work”
(BalletNews.com, 2016)
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