Director of The Royal Ballet Kevin O’Hare today announces promotions, new joiners and leavers for The Royal Ballet’s 2024/25 Season.
Promotions
Calvin Richardson and Joseph Sissens are promoted to Principal.
Annette Buvoli, Leticia Dias, Sae Maeda, Mariko Sasaki, Lukas B. Brandsred, Leo Dixon and Joonhyuk Jun are promoted to First Soloist.
Sophie Allnatt, Chisato Katsura, Liam Boswell, Daichi Ikarashi, Joshua Junker and Francisco Serrano are promoted to Soloist.
Madison Bailey, Viola Pantuso, Sumina Sasaki, Marianna Tsembenhoi and Brayden Gallucci are promoted to First Artist.
The Aud Jebsen Young Dancer programme was established in 2014 and provides recently graduated dancers a year’s contract to be nurtured and perform alongside the corps de ballet of The Royal Ballet.
From the 23/24 Season’s intake, Bethany Bartlett, Sierra Glasheen, Isabella Shaker, Caspar Lench and Blake Smith become Artists.
For the 2024/25 Season, six graduates from The Royal Ballet School join the Aud Jebsen Young Dancers Programme: Francesca Lloyd, Katie Robertson, Rebecca Myles Stewart, Ravi Cannonier-Watson, Emile Gooding and Alejandro Muñoz.
Joiners
Airi Kobayashi from the Deparc Ballet School in Japan joins as the Prix de Lausanne dancer for the 2024/25 Season.
Leavers
As previously announced, Principal dancer Alexander Campbell left The Royal Ballet to take up a new role as Artistic Director of the Royal Academy of Dance.
After 11 years with The Royal Soloist Gina Storm Jensen will now become a permanent member of The Norwegian National Ballet.
Soloist David Yudes also departs the Company after 10 years to become the director of the Escola de Dansa Marisa Yudes in Barcelona.
Artist Stanislaw Wegrzyn leaves The Royal Ballet to take up a soloist contract at the Semperoper Dresden.
Seunghee Han from the 2023/24 Aud Jebsen Young Dancers Programme leaves to join the National Ballet of Canada RBC Apprentice Programme.
The Company’s current Prix de Lausanne dancer, Julie-Ann Joyner, joins Norwegian National Ballet 2.
