Photo Album: The Royal Ballet School’s Summer Performance 2024
On 6 July 2024 at The Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, The Royal Ballet School showed off its latest graduates as well as students from the entire school.
Of the 25 graduates, six will enter The Royal Ballet Aud Jebsen Young Dancers Programme, a stepping stone to joining the company. Some will stay close at home (English National Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet 2), others a little further afield (Amsterdam, Dresden, Zürich, Oslo, Milan, Prague, Stockholm) and a couple will find their way to Canada.
Dance critic Jonathan Gray went to see the Summer Performance for gramilano – read his review is here.
Below is a photo album of that performance.
Assemblage
ASSEMBLAGE
Choreography GEMMA BOND
Music LEÓ WEINER
Upper School 1st, 2nd and Pre-professional Years
AMOS CHILD, ANTONIO CORTESE, MATTEO CURLEYBYNOE, MILLÁN DE BENITO ARANCON, ALBERTO GIL VICENTE, FLYNN HALLWORTH, ROO JACOBSEN, IVAN MALAGUTI, ELLIOTT MARTIN, AXEL MERO, YUSUKE OTAKE, JOE PARKER, JULIAN PECORARO, FABRIZZIO ULLOA CORNEJO, WENDEL VIEIRA TELES DOS SANTOS, MINGYANG XIE SIGURD BLYSTAD, TOM CAPE, JACKSON SMITHLEISHMAN, JAVIER WONG
Concerto Grosso
CONCERTO GROSSO
Choreography HELGI TÓMASSON
Music FRANCESCO GEMINIANI (after Corelli)
Upper School Pre-professional Year
JOSEPH BIRTLES CLARKE, RAVI CANNONIER-WATSON, EMILE GOODING, EDOARDO SAVINI, TAIRA WATANABE
Fieldwork
FIELDWORK
Choreography ASHLEY PAGE
Music DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
White Lodge Year 11
MARTINA GARCES BALLESTER, CESAR ORTEGA GARCIA YUZU SHINOHARA, HARRY WITHERS KRYSANTE BIANINOVA, FLETCHER THOMAS BELLA BARTER, EMILIANO CORDERO ALTAMIRANO HINA SAKAE, RUBEN GARCIA MIYU ARAKI, MATTHIS LAEVENS YEONJIN KIM, SOREN CHISHOLM BREE ANNA BOWLES, CLOVIS COUILLARD
La Valse
LA VALSE
Choreography FREDERICK ASHTON
Music JOSEPH MAURICE RAVEL
Upper School 1st, 2nd and Pre-professional Years
Principals
TIANIE-FINN GRAINGER, ANDREA RIOLO, KATIE ROBERTSON RAVI CANNONIER-WATSON, JULES CHASTRE, JOHN MURCH
Couples
HELLE FLOOD, JULIET GARBACZ, SOPHIA KOO, HEEWON MOON, ANNA NOUVENNE, ERLE ØSTRAAT, ADDISON PARTLOW, SOPHIE SCHULTEN, AZUSA TANAKA, KRISTA VAITKEVICIUTE AMOS CHILD, ANTONIO CORTESE, JAVIER CUBILLAS IZAGUIRRE, MILLÁN DE BENITO ARANCON, SEBASTIANO FILIPPI, PTOLEMY GIDNEY, MARCUS HARVEY, AXEL MERO, MINGYANG XIE, PIETRO ZIRONI ALECSIA MARIA LAZARESCU, CIAN-YOU LIN, AISLYNN LOPTSON, EMMA LUCANO, MARTHA SAVIN, NANOHA SHIGEOKA, SAMANTHA STRIPLIN, SHIORI YAMASHITA FLYNN HALLWORTH, IVAN MALAGUTI, ELLIOTT MARTIN, ARCHIE MATHIAS, JULIAN PECORARO, DENIS TEIXEIRA, FABRIZZIO ULLOA CORNEJO, WENDEL VIEIRA TELES DOS SANTOS
Footmen
NOAH CAMPBELL, JOE PARKINSON, KILLIAN RUDD, ROBIN WARD
Mistake Waltz
MISTAKE WALTZ
Excerpt from The Concert Choreography JEROME ROBBINS
Music FRYDERYK CHOPIN
Upper School 1st, 2nd and Pre-professional Years
CHARLOTTE COHEN, LIBERTY FERGUS, TIANIE-FINN GRAINGER, LUCY HIND, FRANCESCA LLOYD, ANDREA RIOLO, KATIE ROBERTSON, JANA FAYE TERUEL
Carries
SIGURD BLYSTAD, JULES CHASTRE, MILLÁN DE BENITO ARANCON, SEBASTIANO FILIPPI, IVAN MALAGUTI, JOHN MURCH, JULIAN PECORARO, JAVIER WONG
Paquita
PAQUITA
Excerpts
Choreography after MARIUS PETIPA
Music LUDWIG MINKUS
White Lodge Years 8 and 9, Upper School 1st, 2nd and Preprofessional Years
Mazurka
CARLOS ALMODÓVAR WHITE, EMILIA ALSOP, AARON ANDERSON, SOPHIA BERRY, MARIOS BOSIA, SUMMER CAMBDEN, ZACHARY COLLETT-XIMINES, FILIPPA DEEGAN, OLYMPIA EDE-BRAY, LUCY EVANS, KAI GOLOVNIOV, ROBYN HAIGH, ANNA KONDO, HENRY LENNON, JULIA MOLLÁ OLIVER, ROBBIE MOORE, ALFIE NAPOLITANO, SANJAR NURBEKOV, AYLA ORSBORN, COLM ROBERTSON, OZORA SUMENDA, FELIX WALL, EMILY WALLER, SCARLETT WIMSHURST
Pas de deux MAIA ROSE ROBERTS, RAVI CANNONIER-WATSON
First male solo EMILE GOODING
First female solo KATIE ROBERTSON
Second female solo REBECCA STEWART
Second male solo ALEJANDRO MUÑOZ
Third female solo AURORA CHINCHILLA
Demi soloists YEJU JANG, YASEMIN KAYABAY, FRANCESCA LLOYD, HEEWON MOON, SHANI MORANSIMMONDS, JANA FAYE TERUEL
Corps de ballet YASEMIN CAYNAK, SOPHIA KOO, ALECSIA MARIA LAZARESCU, CIAN-YOU LIN, YUKI NAGAYASU, ERLE ØSTRAAT, ADDISON PARTLOW, NANOHA SHIGEOKA, SAMANTHA STRIPLIN, SHIORI YAMASHITA
Défilé
Choreography
JACQUELIN BARRETT, MARY GOODHEW, ANATOLE GRIGORIEV, BELINDA HATLEY, HOPE KEELAN, KENTA KURA, PATRICIA LINTON, VALENTINA MOUKHANOVA, GARY NORMAN, DAVID PEDEN, CHRISTOPHER POWNEY, ANTHONY SEWELL, DIANE VAN SCHOOR, KATERINA ZVELEBILOVA
Music CARL CZERNY
Performed by THE ROYAL BALLET SCHOOL
Graham Spicer, aka ‘Gramilano’, is a writer, director and photographer based in Milan. He was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy. His articles have appeared in various publications from Woman’s Weekly to Gay Times, and he wrote the Danza in Italia column for Dancing Times magazine. Graham was the historical advisor on Codice Carla, the 2023 documentary on Carla Fracci.
Graham also works as a dance photographer, and his photos have appeared in many books, theatre programmes, and magazines, including Dancing Times, Dance Spirit and Ballet2000, as well as all the major Italian newspapers.
He is a member of the Dance Section of The Critics’ Circle.
