Birmingham Royal Ballet News 2012
Promotions
- Jenna Roberts, First Soloist to Principal
- Angela Paul, Laetitia Lo Sardo, Tzu-Chao Chou & Mathias Dingman, Soloist to First Soloist
- Arancha Baselga, Laura Purkiss, James Barton, Jonathan Caguioa & Tom Rogers, First Artist to Soloist
- Laura-Jane Gibson, Yvette Knight, Delia Mathews, Callie Roberts, William Bracewell & Oliver Till, Artist to First Artist
Joiners
- Momoko Hirata returns as First Soloist after 18 months with Angel Corella’s company
- Miki Mizutani (ENB School) as Artist
- Alys Shee (from ABT II) as Artist
- Laura Day*, Reina Fuchigami* & Lachlan Monaghan (all from RBS) as Artists
- Anna Monleon* (from Elmhurst) as Artist
- Ana Albutashvili (from the State Ballet of Georgia) as Artist
* joined mid-season
Leavers
- Gaylene Cummerfield, Principal Dancer, after a 15 year career with Australian Ballet and BRB,. Gaylene leaves to become a full-time mother
- Robert Parker, Principal Dancer, after 18 years with the company to take up the role of Artistic Director of Elmhurst School for Dance
- Lei Zhao, Robert Gravenor, Aonghus Hoole and Max Westwell left during the season