Royal Ballet School News 2012
Graduate Contracts
- Atlantic City Ballet Romain di Fazio
- Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris Axel Alvarez
- Ballet de l’Opéra National de Bordeaux Evangeline Ball, Takaaki Okajima
- Ballet du Capitole de Toulouse Matthew Astley
- Bavarian State Ballet 2 Marta Navarrete Villalba, Jonah Cook, Sebastian Goffin
- Berlin Ballet 2 Jordan Mullin
- Birmingham Royal Ballet Laura Day, Reina Fuchigami, Lachlan Monaghan
- Dutch National Ballet Skyler Martin
- English National Ballet Teo Dubreuil
- Hong Kong Ballet Ellen Elphick, Solomon Golding
- Karlsruhe State Theatre of Baden Louis-Joseph Bray
- Lithuanian National Ballet Isaac Evans
- National Ballet of Portugal Melissa Parsons
- Northern Ballet Mariana Rodrigues, Sean Bates, Isaac Lee-Baker
- Polish National Ballet Lynsey Sutherland, Kenneth Dwigans
- The Royal Ballet Tierney Heap, Mayara Magri, Donald Thorn
- Vienna State Opera Ballet Nina Tonoli, Tristan Ridel
Ballet Association Awards 2012
At the 2012 Royal Ballet School graduation ceremony David Bain presented the Annual Ballet Association Awards to 1st Year Upper School students Marcelino Sambé from Portugal, Yaoqian Shang from China and 2nd Year Upper School student Nina Tonoli from Belgium.
Marcelino’s successes include junior division gold medals at the USA International Ballet Competition 2010 and at Youth America Grand Prix 2009. His entry for the Ursula Moreton Choreographic Award received 2nd prize and was performed during the Linbury season, at which he also performed the pas de deux from Le Corsaire. Yaoqian also danced the Corsaire pas de deux on the opening and closing nights. She previously studied at the Beijing Dance Academy and was offered a place at The Royal Ballet School after being seen by the Director at the Youth America Grand Prix 2010. Nina performed in a number of ballets both in the Linbury Season and on the Main Stage. She enjoys choreographing and was featured in a short documentary for Belgian television alongside Sander Blommaert. This can be seen on YouTube.