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    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 

    Royal Ballet press release