Prize Winners announced at Prix de Lausanne 2026
14 Prize Winners were announced this afternoon at the Prix de Lausanne 2026.
Kevin O’Hare
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Prix de Lausanne 2026 from 2 – 8 February, also online
Prix de Lausanne 2026: the 54th edition of the Prix runs from 2 to 8 February 2026 – the competition can be viewed via GRAMILANO.
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Interview: talking to Melissa Hamilton, The Royal Ballet’s new principal dancer
Royal Ballet principal dancer Melissa Hamilton talks about her unique path to the top of her profession, her production company, and her colleagues.
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The Royal Ballet promotes Melissa Hamilton to Principal Dancer
Melissa Hamilton has been promoted to Principal Dancer, the highest rank in The Royal Ballet, taking effect from 1 January 2025.
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Royal Ballet Principal dancer Lauren Cuthbertson becomes Principal Guest Artist
Lauren Cuthbertson Principal becomes Principal Guest Artist with The Royal Ballet after over two decades performing with the Company.
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The Fonteyn 2024 – the Margot Fonteyn International Ballet Competition “an evening, jam-packed with quality dancing”
Matthew Paluch sees The Margot Fonteyn Ballet Competition: “seeing young people flourish because of their own hard work and dedication will never tire.”
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Royal Ballet Soloist Gina Storm Jensen to join The Norwegian National Ballet
Following an 11-year career with the Royal Ballet, Soloist Gina Storm Jensen will join The Norwegian National Ballet.
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[Interview] Royal Ballet director Kevin O’Hare talks about the company’s new name and new season 2024-2025
The Royal Ballet 2024-2025 – I talked with Royal Ballet director Kevin O’Hare about the programming, new initiatives, tradition… and a new name!
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Royal Ballet Principal Alexander Campbell becomes Artistic Director of the Royal Academy of Dance
The Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) has announced that Alexander Campbell will leave The Royal Ballet to take up its Artistic Directorship.
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#WorldBalletDay celebrates 10th anniversary
The annual free digital 24-hour livestream for World Ballet Day occurs on Wednesday 1 November this year.
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The Royal Ballet announces company promotions, new joiners and leavers
Director of The Royal Ballet, Kevin O’Hare, has announced the promotions, new joiners and leavers for The Royal Ballet’s 2023/24 Season.
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Laura Morera’s farewell to Covent Garden
“It’s always sad when a favourite dancer decides to retire from the stage. With The Royal Ballet’s Laura Morera, however, it seems like the end of an era.”
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[Interview] Designer Tom Pye on death threats, Cinderella – and cowboys
Paul Arrowsmith talks to Tom Pye, designer of The Royal Ballet’s new production of Cinderella about redesigning the Ashton classic and his career highlights.
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[Review] The Royal Ballet: A Diamond Celebration – the importance of the past, present, and future
Guest author Matthew Paluch looks at celebrating 60 years of The Friends of Covent Garden in a varied programme for The Royal Ballet: A Diamond Celebration.
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#WorldBalletDay 2022 – the biggest-ever global celebration of dance
#WorldBalletDay 2022 will be the biggest yet with over 60 companies participating, including 14 for the first time.
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Royal Ballet Principal dancer Edward Watson retires after 27 years
Royal Ballet Principal Edward Watson will make his final performance with the company on Saturday 30 October in Wayne McGregor’s new work, The Dante Project.
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#WorldBalletDay 2021 – the global celebration of dance
The Royal Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet and The Australian Ballet have announced that #WorldBalletDay 2021 will take place on 19 October.
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[Photo Album] The Royal Ballet’s “Beauty Mixed Programme”
The Royal Ballet unveils its Beauty Mixed Programme: ‘Respect the past, herald the future but concentrate on the present.’
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Royal Ballet promotions 2021
The Royal Ballet promotions 2021 have been announced by artistic director Kevin O’Hare with new dancers at all ranks.
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dance | news | obituaries
British choreographer Liam Scarlett has died at 35
Tributes to one of the most satisfying choreographers of his generation, Liam Scarlett, are flooding social media after the announcement of his death.
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#WorldBalletDay 2020
World Ballet Day returns on 29 October 2020 for a global celebration to unite the dance community as it faces the challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Francesca Hayward – find out more about The Royal Ballet’s star of the movie Cats
Francesca Hayward, Principal dancer of The Royal Ballet, has a leading role in the film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber‘s musical Cats, directed by Academy Award winner Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech, Les Misérables, The Danish Girl). The much-criticised film – both positively and negatively, though mostly the latter – has seen praise poured on Hayward who…
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dance | featured | interviews | top dance | top interviews
Interview: The Royal Ballet’s Ballet Master, Christopher Carr, on mounting Coppélia, the company’s dancers and technique
Everyone who has followed The Royal Ballet in rehearsal during World Ballet Day or watched the interval clips and interviews during the intervals of the company’s live cinema relays will know Christopher Carr. The Royal Ballet’s Guest Principal Ballet Master isn’t afraid of raising his voice, clapping his hands loudly and stamping the floor with…
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David Hallberg becomes Principal Guest Artist of The Royal Ballet in the 2019/2020 Season
David Hallberg will become a Principal Guest Artist of The Royal Ballet in the 2019/2020 Season. Hallberg has a long association partnering Royal Ballet Principal dancer Natalia Osipova. During the 2018/2019 Season they performed together at The Royal Opera House in Frederick Ashton‘s A Month in the Country and Kenneth MacMillan‘s Romeo and Juliet. They also danced…
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Photos and full programme of Margot Fonteyn, A Celebration with The Royal Ballet
Last night, 8 June 2019, The Royal Ballet celebrated the centenary of the birth of its most famous ballerina, Dame Margot Fonteyn, who was born on 18 May 1919. A performance of The Firebird, currently in a triple bill, was followed by a gala of extracts from ballets representing some of Fonteyn’s most celebrated roles….
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Dancing Times, May edition – including Gramilano’s Danza in Italia column reviewing world premieres of Winterreise and Carmen
Dancing Times‘ May issue is out now, with a glorious cover featuring Margot Fonteyn – the only dancer to be given the title prima ballerina assoluta by The Royal Ballet – who was born 100 years ago on 18 May. The magazine celebrates the centenary of Fonteyn’s birth with articles by The Royal Ballet’s director…
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La Scala’s Timofej Andrijashenko to guest as Romeo with The Royal Ballet
La Scala Principal Dancer Timofej Andrijashenko will dance Romeo at The Royal Opera House in London on 27 April and 4 May alongside Melissa Hamilton. The director of The Royal Ballet, Kevin O’Hare, was present at La Scala’s opening of Wayne McGregor‘s ballet Woolf Works earlier this month on 7 April and saw Andrijashenko dancing…
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After 16 years, Thiago Soares leaves as Principal dancer with The Royal Ballet
Thiago Soares becomes Royal Ballet guest Principal for the 2019/20 Season After 16 years with The Royal Ballet, Thiago Soares has decided to make this Season his last as a Principal dancer with the Comapny in order to focus on new projects in dance and the performing arts. He will return as a guest Principal in the…
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Behind the Scenes with Marianela Nuñez: “This is where the magic begins”
“This is Covent Garden.” The recorded announcement reverberates along the platform. “I always feel that this is when my ballerina day starts… It’s been 20 years that I’ve come to this station and I just feel that this is where the magic begins, believe it or not — Covent Garden tube station.”
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Interview: For The Royal Ballet’s Yasmine Naghdi it’s “Ready, Steady, Go”!
Interview with Yasmine Naghdi as she dances in the world premiere of Alastair Marriott’s The Unknown Soldier – with photos by Dasa Wharton I last interviewed Yasmine Naghdi in September of 2015 when she and Matthew Ball were preparing to dance Romeo and Juliet together. They were dancing the roles for the first time —…
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