Meet the 24 graduating Royal Ballet School students

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Fast Blue (3) — Royal Ballet School in Fast Blue – photo by ASH

All 24 of the pre-professional students at The Royal Ballet School [meet them below] have won contracts for the upcoming season which will take them to Canada and many US cities, to Finland, Denmark, Norway, the Czech Republic, Germany and the Netherlands, as well as four who will go to the Birmingham Royal Ballet, and six with The Royal Ballet.

Sunday afternoon sees the school's Summer Performance on the main stage of The Royal Opera House – the final performance with the school for the 24 graduates. They will perform the Dream Scene from Carlos Acosta's Don Quixote; Konservatoriet, August Bournonville's vaudeville work for the Royal Danish Ballet; Bold by Goyo Montero created with students from 24 ballet schools around the world at this year's Prix de Lausanne; a special creation from choreographer and dance filmmaker, Morgann Runacre-Temple; Kenneth MacMillan's The Four Seasons; excerpts from Christopher Wheeldon's Within the Golden Hour; Jiří Kylián's Sechs Tänze; and the pas de deux from Frederick Ashton's The Two Pigeons.

Jann Parry will review the performance for Gramilano.

Fast Blue

The Four Seasons

Don Quixote

Konservatoriet

Within the Golden Hour

Sechs Tänze

The Two Pigeons

Graduate contracts 2023

The Pre-professional Year students of 2023 have secured the following contracts:

Ariana Allen
Birmingham Royal Ballet/BRB2

Bethany Bartlett
The Royal Ballet Aud Jebsen Young Dancers Programme

Guillem Cabrera Espinach
Joffrey Studio Company

George Edwards
Finnish National Ballet Youth Company

Liya Fan
The National Ballet of Canada

Sierra Glasheen
The Royal Ballet Aud Jebsen Young Dancers Programme

Theo Greenfield
Joffrey Studio Company

Seung Hee Han
The Royal Ballet Aud Jebsen Young Dancers Programme

Tom Hazelby
Birmingham Royal Ballet/BRB2

Chaeyeon Kang
American Ballet Theatre Studio Company

Taeryeong Kim
Norwegian National Ballet 2

Alexander Larsson
The Royal Danish Ballet

Caspar Lench
The Royal Ballet Aud Jebsen Young Dancers Programme

Milda Luckute
Semperoper Ballett Dresden

Sasha Manuel
Birmingham Royal Ballet/BRB2

Kaito Matsuoka
Houston Ballet II

Austen McDonald
Boston Ballet II

Meg Newton
Orlando Ballet II

Nikolás San Gil Muñoz
National Ballet Brno

Alfie Shacklock
Birmingham Royal Ballet/BRB2

Isabella Shaker
The Royal Ballet Aud Jebsen Young Dancers Programme

Blake Smith
The Royal Ballet Aud Jebsen Young Dancers Programme

Max Steele
Hungarian National Ballet

Vincent Vivet
Dutch National Ballet Junior Company

Gramilano( Editor )

Graham Spicer is a writer, director and photographer in Milan, blogging (under the name ‘Gramilano') about dance, opera, music and photography for people “who are a bit like me and like some of the things I like”. He was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy.

His scribblings have appeared in various publications from Woman's Weekly to Gay Times, and he wrote the ‘Danza in Italia' column for Dancing Times magazine.