Royal Ballet School News 2009
Graduate Contracts
- The Royal Ballet Ruth Bailey, Leticia Stock, Tristan Dyer, Benjamin Ella
- Birmingham Royal Ballet Benjamin Soerel
- English National Ballet Nicola Henshall, Shiori Kase, Vadim Muntagirov (First Artist)
- Northern Ballet Theatre Jeremy Curnier
- Dutch National Ballet Charlotte Barber-O'Donnell
- Stuttgart Ballet Elisa Badenes
- Munich Ballet Freya Thomas
- Royal Danish Ballet Oda Groener
- Royal Swedish Ballet Daniel Norgren-Jensen
- Estonian Ballet Jonathan Hanks, William Moore
- Norwegian National Ballet Lucas Lima
- Hungarian Ballet Lili Felmery
- Ballet de l'Opéra National de Bordeaux Giada Rossi, Bethany West
- Corella Ballet, Spain Giacomo Vitelli, Mattia Vitelli, Sergi Terns Goma
- South African Ballet Theatre Alex Arshamian
- Ballet Tucson, Arizona Natalie Blosser
- National Ballet of Canada Giorgio Galli
- Singapore Dance Theatre Ichigo Oguro
- The Australian Ballet Jessica Wood
Ballet Association Awards 2009
The Ballet Association Award was instituted in 2008. The criteria for awards were set by the Royal Ballet School teaching staff and are:
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Royal Ballet School students from overseas in the first or second years of the Upper School
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who are outstanding dancers
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who would value additional funds as they are excluded from UK government sources
The value of the awards is £500 each and they were presented in July by Ballet Association Vice Chairman Sylvia Tyler to Imogen Chapman (on the left in the photo) and Angela Wood. Both students are 17 and enter their graduate year this autumn. Imogen is from Australia and Angela from Colorado. Imogen recently toured with Carlos Acosta and both will be travelling to Toronto with the School in November to participate in the 50th Anniversary celebrations for Canada’s National Ballet School.