Royal Ballet News 2017
Promotions
- Yasmine Naghdi to Principal Dancer
- Christina Arestis, Bennet Gartside, Kristen McNally & Thomas Whitehead to Principal Character Artist
- Matthew Ball & Marcelino Sambé to First Soloist
- Reece Clarke, Benjamin Ella & Anna Rose O’Sullivan to Soloist
- Hannah Grennell, Calvin Richardson, Gina Storm-Jensen & David Yudes to First Artist
Joiners
- William Bracewell joins as Soloist from Birmingham Royal Ballet
- Giacomo Rovero, Francisco Serrano & Charlotte Tonkinson join as Artists from the Aud Jebsen Young Dancers programme
- Joonhyuk Jun, Joshua Junker, Sae Maeda, Nadia Mullova-Barley, Aiden O’Brien & Amelia Palmiero join the Aud Jebsen Young Dancers programme
- Stanislaw Wegryzn joins as Prix de Lausanne dancer
- First Soloist Melissa Hamilton returns after a leave of absence performing with Semperoper Dresden
Leavers
- Zenaida Yanowsky, Principal Dancer, after 23 years
- Matthew Golding, Principal Dancer
- Valeri Hristov, First Soloist, after 15 years
- Johannes Stepanek, First Soloist, after 15 years
- Hayley Forskitt, First Artist, retiring from dance
- Solomon Golding, Artist, joining San Francisco Ballet