Royal Ballet Promotions, leavers, joiners

BREAKING BALLET NEWS

Sergei Polunin in The Sleeping Beauty

Photograph :  Johan Persson

Sergei Polunin is promoted to Principal

Sergei Polunin and Yuhui Choe in La Bayadere

Photograph :  Bill Cooper

Johannes Stepanek to First Soloist
Melissa Hamilton to Soloist
Claire Calvert, Akane Takada, Fernando Montano and Erico Montes to First Artists

Nehemiah Kish joins as Principal from the Royal Danish Ballet

Itziar Mendizabal joins from the Leipzig Ballet as First Soloist

Graduates from The Royal Ballet School join the company as Artists and are :

Yasmine Naghdi
Sander Blommaert
James Butcher

Valentino Zucchetti joins from the Norwegian Ballet

Camille Bracher joins from Johannesburg as Artist
Beatrix Stix-Brunell from the School of American Ballet as Artist

Miyako Yoshida retires at the end of the season

Also leaving/left are :

Viacheslav Samodurov
Yohei Sasaki
Gemma Sykes
Cindy Jourdain
Ernst Meisner
Richard Ramsey
Xander Parish