Royal Ballet News 2015

Promotions

Francesca Hayward, James Hay to First Soloist
Meaghan Grace Hinkis, Luca Acri, Nicol Edmonds, Marcelino Sambé to Soloist
Camille Bracher, Mayara Magri, Leticia Stock, Matthew Ball, Sander Blommaert, Tomas Mock, Donald Thom to First Artist

Chisato Katsura, graduate of the Royal Ballet School
From the Aud Jebsen Young Dancers Programme: Grace Blundell (formerly RBS), Ashley Scott (formerly ENBS)
2015 Prix de Lausanne Dancer David Yudes
Aud Jebsen Young Dancers: Isabel Lubach, Julia Roscoe, Lukas Bjørneboe Brændsrød, Harry Churches, Leo Dixon, all from the Royal Ballet School
Prix de Lausanne Dancer: Julian MacKay joins for the 2015/16 season
Royal Ballet Young Choreographer Programme: Charlotte Edmonds joins for the 2015/16 season as the first participant

First Soloist Deirdre Chapman
First Artists Pietra Mello-Pittman, Ludovic Ondiviela (mid-season); Jacqueline Clark, Elsa Godard, Michael Stojko, Andrej Uspenski (at season end). Andrej Uspenski will be engaged as photographer for the Royal Ballet for the 2015/16 season
Aud Jebsen Young Dancers from the 2014/15 season have been offered contracts as follows: Maria Barroso joins the National Ballet of Portugal, Grace Horler joins Scottish Ballet, Ashleigh McKimmie joins Estonian National Ballet
First Soloist Melissa Hamilton as Principal Dancer at Semperoper Ballet, Dresden for the 2015/16 season
First Artist Leanne Cope continues her sabbatical playing Lise in Christopher Wheeldon's An American in Paris