Royal Ballet News 2014
Promotions
- Akane Takada and Valentino Zucchetti to First Soloist
- Francesca Hayward, Yasmine Naghdi, Tristan Dyer and Fernando Montaño to Soloist
- Jacqueline Clark, Elsa Godard, Gemma Pitchley-Gale, Luca Acri, Nicol Edmonds, Kevin Emerton and Marcelino Sambé to First Artist
Joiners
- Natalia Osipova, Vadim Muntagirov and Matthew Golding joined as Principal during the season
- Calvin Richardson joined as an artist from The Royal Ballet School
- Mariko Sasaki joined as an artist from Birmingham Royal Ballet
- Hannah Grennell joined as an artist from Dutch National Ballet
- Gina Storm-Jensen, Reece Clarke and Teo Dubreu, graduates of the RBS, joined as artists during the season. Isabella Gasparini also joined in 2014
- Aud Jebsen Young Dancers Programme (one year contract): Grace Blundell and Grace Horler from The Royal Ballet School. Ashley Scott and Ashleigh McKimmie from English National Ballet School. Maria Barroso from Semperoper Ballet, Dresden
- David Navarro Yudes joins as a Prix de Lausanne Dancer for 2014/15
Leavers
- Soloist Dawid Trzensimiech left during last season to join National Romanian Ballet
- Soloist Kenta Kura retires after 17 years to become Boys’ Artistic Teacher at White Lodge
- First Artist Sabina Westcombe
- Artists Ruth Bailey and Claudia Dean
- First Artist Leanne Cope will take a season’s sabbatical to play the part of Lise Dassin in An American in Paris, directed and choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon