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Marina Fraser

Marina Fraser

Marina trained at Tring Park School for the Performing Arts and the Royal Ballet Upper School, where she won the Lynn Seymour Award for Expressive Dance (2016) and an Ursula Moreton Choreographic Award (2017). She has performed in productions with the Royal Ballet, English National Ballet and as a member of the Viviana Durante Company (coached by Deborah Macmillan). Moving to the US in 2019, Marina worked with Milwaukee Ballet ll (2019/20), and Joffrey Ballet, Chicago, as a studio company artist (2020/21), where she was selected as Young Moves choreographer. Marina joined KVN Dance Company, London, this August to dance the role of Swanhilder in Kevan Allen’s reimagining of Coppelia. Marina has featured in and co-coordinated several dance films, and appeared in movies, Avengers: Age of Ultron and Enola Holmes.

Delia Mathews

Delia Mathews

Delia Mathews was born in New Zealand and started her ballet training at The Dance Education Centre in Tauranga before moving to London to study at The Royal Ballet School. She joined Birmingham Royal Ballet in 2008 after graduating from the school and was promoted to Principal in 2017.

Her repertoire includes Odette/Odile in Swan Lake, Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Title role in Cinderella, The Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker, Natalia Petrovna in A Month in the Country, In The Upper Room as well as creating roles in works by David Bintley, Alexander Whitley and Jessica Lang.

William Bracewell

William Bracewell

William was born in Swansea where he trained at the Pamela Miller Ballet School and from the age of 11, at The Royal Ballet School. Awards while a student include the 2007 Young British Dancer of the Year Award and the grand prix at the 2010 Youth America Grand Prix. He joined Birmingham Royal Ballet in 2010 and is currently dancing as a soloist at The Royal Ballet

Téo Dubreuil

Téo Dubreuil

English dancer Téo Dubreuil is an First Artist of The Royal Ballet. He trained at The Royal Ballet School winning 2nd prize in the Young British Dancer of the Year competition in 2011. Teo graduated from school into English National Ballet at age 17, going on to join The Royal Ballet in 2014. Whilst dancing with English National Ballet, featured roles included; the Pas de Trois in Swan Lake and the Pas de Cinq in Serge Lifar’s; Suite en Blanc. Now with The Royal Ballet, he performs in the majority of the Company’s repertoire. Featured roles have included a Cavalier in The Sleeping Beauty, the Pas de Six in Sir Peter Wright’s Giselle and the duet in Christopher Wheeldon’s; Within the Golden Hour. He has created roles in Hofesh Shechter’s Untouchable, Wayne McGregor’s Woolf Works, Liam Scarlets Frankenstein and Christopher Wheeldon’s Corybantic Games.

 

Gabor Kapin

Gabor Kapin

Gabor Kapin was a principal dancer with the Carolina ballet, Boston ballet and currently with the Royal Ballet of Flanders. His repertoire includes all the classics, much of Balanchine's work and other choreographers such as Kylian, Ekman, Hans van Manen and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui

Nancy Osbaldeston

Nancy Osbaldeston

Nancy Osbaldeston danced with English National Ballet for 6 years and is now with the Royal Ballet of Flanders as a principal. She has danced roles such as Clara in Demis Volpi’s Nutcracker, Olga in Cranko’s Onegin and Aegina in Yury Grigorovich’s Spartacus. She has also performed works by Hans van Manen, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Jeroen Verbruggen, Jiri Kylian, Ohad Naharin and Akram Khan.

Georgie Rose

Georgie Rose

English Georgie Rose was educated at The Royal Ballet School. Before joining the Norwegian National Ballet in 2015, where she now has a permanent contract, she was working with The Royal Ballet and New English Ballet Theatre. With The Royal Balletshe performed in ballets like Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, Mayerling, The Nutcracker and La Bayadère and Swan Lake during the Royal Ballet's summer tour of Granada in 2009. She has also danced leading roles in Valentino Zucchetti's Orbital Motion, Erico Montes' Toca and Wayne Eagling's Resolution. She was also selected as one of two girls to accompany Carlos Acosta on his tour, where she danced one of Apollos' maidens in Apollo at the Opera house in Valencia. 

Rose has spent several seasons also affiliated with The Royal Opera House, where she worked as the Principal ballerina in Verdi's opera Les Vepres Sicilienne - a production shown in cinemas worldwide. 

At the Norwegian National Ballet Rose has performed in all productions including Kyliáns Falling Angels and Sweet Dreams, Balanchine's Agon and the role of Dark Angel in Serenade, Ekmans A Swan Lake, MacMillans Manon, and Spucks Anna Karenina.

Laurie McSherry-Gray

Laurie McSherry-Gray

Born in 1988 in Kingston Upon Hull, England, Laurie trained locally before moving to London at sixteen to train at The Royal Ballet School.

Upon graduation, he joined The Royal New Zealand Ballet - before joining The Royal Ballet of Flanders in Belgium, where he was promoted to Soloist.

He has performed leading roles in prolific ballets such as Cranko’s Onegin, Béjart’s Bolero, Nijinsky’s L’apres midi du’n Faune, Bausch’s Café Müller, Kylian’s Forgotten Land, Wheeldon’s Danse à Grande Vitesse & Polyphonia, and McGregor’s Infra.

Laurie is now a freelance dancer based in London, regularly performing with Sergei Polunin and collaborating with independent choreographers and artists alike.

Giulia Frosi

Giulia Frosi

She was born in Cremona where she started taking the first ballet classes in the school of Giada Orio. At the age of 11, in 2007, she started training professionally at the Accademia Teatro alla Scala, in Milan, under the direction of Frederic Olivieri. In la Scala school her most important teachers were Tatiana Nikonova and Vera Karpenko, that taught her Russian ballet technique. After five years in la Scala, she attended the Royal Ballet Summer School Program and there she got offered a scolarship to join the Royal Ballet Upper School in Covent Garden, under the direction of Gailene Stock. Here at the Royal Ballet School she spent three fulfilling years and she graduated in the summer of 2015.

At the Royal Ballet School she trained with Anita Young, Rosalyn Whitten, Nichola Tranah, Daria Klimentova, Meelis Pakri, David Peden, Jay Jolley, Paul Lewis and Rodolfo Castellanos.

Highlights of her School years were performing Gymnopedie pas de deux by Roland Petit, Adam Zero pas de deux by Andrew McNicol, Classical Symphony by Liam Scarlett, Rush by Christopher Wheeldon, Sechs Tanze by Jiri Kylian, Sweet Spell of Oblivion pas de deux by David Dawson and Chanson by Derek Deane.

After graduating she joined Dresden Semperoper Ballett, under the direction of Aaron Watkin. Since then she has been performing corps de ballet and some demi soloist roles. She danced in Manon by Kenneth MacMillan; Theme and Variations by George Balanchine; Impressing the Czar by William Forsythe (also at the Paris Opera Garnier); the Nutcracker, la Bayadere, Swan Lake, the Sleeping Beauty and Don Quixote by Aaron Watkin; Tristan + Isolde by David Dawson; Romeo and Juliet by Stijn Celis; Symphony in C by George Balanchine and Forgotten Land by Jiri Kylian.

She took part to the Gala Internazionale di Danza – Hommage a Marika Besobrasova and to the Dance Gala in Numana where she performed the White Swan pas de deux from Swan Lake and Skin,a creation by Claudio Cangialosi.

She appears in a short film, the Floor On Fire, created by Sebastian Linda.

Isaac Lee-Baker

Isaac Lee-Baker

Isaac started taking dance classes with Chance to Dance through an ROH outreach programme before taking his vocational training further with the Royal Ballet School. After graduating in 2012, he joined Northern Ballet where he danced pieces by/created with; David Nixon, Hans Van Manen, Jonathan Watkins, Massimo Moricone, Lar Lubovitch, Demis Volpi, Kenneth Tindall. Isaac left Northern Ballet in 2016 and joined Jean-Christophe Maillot's Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, dancing in La Belle, Lac, Aleatorio, Frére Laurent in Roméo et Juliette and Demetrius from Le Songe.