capybara Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 (edited) ENB regards dancers who come via the Prix de Lausanne as Artists. They might well be on one year contracts initially but they do not appear to be within a separate 'category' as at the RB. Edited July 3, 2018 by capybara 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisiblecircus Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 1 hour ago, capybara said: ENB regards dancers who come via the Prix de Lausanne as Artists. They might well be on one year contracts initially but they do not appear to be within a separate 'category' as at the RB. Yes, although I understand that Shale (and Others) was offered an ongoing contract, otherwise ENB would not have needed to offer anything because as the first prize winner they were obligated to take him for the year under the conditions of the PDL. The Prix website always lists the prize winners as being awarded a scholarship or an apprenticeship depending on which age category they were in because that is what they're funding. Some companies might choose to offer a full contract to a prize winner from the outset if they're really interested in them so as not to lose them to a company offering a better contract! This must be a dilemma for dancers with the ambition to join the RB as the company often don't keep on the apprenticeships after the initial year. Notably, none of this years prize winners chose the RB for their apprenticeship and I wonder if this is the reason. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yumiko Posted July 4, 2018 Share Posted July 4, 2018 Thank you for explanation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizbie1 Posted July 4, 2018 Share Posted July 4, 2018 Please forgive my ignorance, but what are the *material* differences between being an Aud Jebsen dancer and having a full contract? Do full contracts for new graduates typically run for longer than a year, or is there a significant amount of extra money for a full contract? If neither of these is the case (and there are suggestions above that this is so), does the real difference from the dancer's point of view boil down to an appearance of greater commitment from the company's side? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xandra Newman Posted July 4, 2018 Share Posted July 4, 2018 An Aud Jebsen apprentice is taken on a trial basis this means they are not accepted as - nor do they have the status of being - a Company dancer, they are not official members of the corps de ballet. If at the end of their trial period the apprentice is offered a contract it becomes a permanent contract, once on a permanent contract an RB dancer cannot be sacked and will be with the RB for as long as they want and can dance (unless their performance standard is not up to RB standards and RB expectations, or for any other reason...!). An Aud Jebsen dancer can be asked to leave the RB after their Apprenticeship is over and there is no guarantee they will be offered a permanent contract. They take daily class with the Company and watch their rehearsals. They may be asked to stand in when a corps de ballet member is ill or injured. It allows them to observe and adjust to Company life, to the physical and mental demands of being a professional dancer, and they also learn choreography by watching the rehearsals. Those days of offering permanent RB contracts to Graduates seem to be well and truly over as the Company seems to be at full capacity, already filled with so many highly talented dancers who came out of the School over the past decade. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluebird Posted July 4, 2018 Share Posted July 4, 2018 (edited) 16 minutes ago, Xandra Newman said: They may be asked to stand in when a corps de ballet member is ill or injured. This season, particularly in Swan Lake, a number of the apprentices have been taking corps de ballet roles in their own right (i.e. they have not just been filling in for injured dancers) Also, I remember Kevin O'Hare saying that apprentices get additional coaching, tailored to their needs. He specifically mentioned that he had asked Darcey Bussell to come in to give guidance to the taller female apprentices of a particular year's intake. Edited July 4, 2018 by Bluebird 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted July 4, 2018 Share Posted July 4, 2018 28 minutes ago, Xandra Newman said: If at the end of their trial period the apprentice is offered a contract it becomes a permanent contract, once on a permanent contract an RB dancer cannot be sacked and will be with the RB for as long as they want and can dance Really? So that's more comparable - if I've understood correctly - to the situation at the Paris Opera Ballet, except without the enforced retirement age - but not as (overly?) generous as the situation with some Russian companies? Quote An Aud Jebsen dancer can be asked to leave the RB after their Apprenticeship is over and there is no guarantee they will be offered a permanent contract. They take daily class with the Company and watch their rehearsals. They may be asked to stand in when a corps de ballet member is ill or injured. Presumably taking priority over RBS students, then? Quote Those days of offering permanent RB contracts to Graduates seem to be well and truly over as the Company seems to be at full capacity, already filled with so many highly talented dancers who came out of the School over the past decade. It was predictable that this was going to happen, given that intake seems to have outpaced "natural wastage" over the past few years. But tough for the students graduating at the moment. I suppose that even if there are no places for AJ dancers to move into, they might be told "we really like you and want you in the company, but there are no places available at the moment, so go and get experience somewhere else for a year or two". They might even get preference when vacancies do arise, as management will already have an idea of how well they'll fit into the company? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capybara Posted July 4, 2018 Share Posted July 4, 2018 1 hour ago, alison said: Presumably taking priority over RBS students, then? Maybe so. However, I saw the following RBS students on stage during the run of Swan Lake: Yu Hang, Yu Kurihara, Yuki Sugiura, Katharina Nikelski, Amelia Townsend (I think), Harrison Lee, Dingkai Bai and some other young men whose names I'm not sure of. Did anyone spot anyone else? As I mentioned on another thread, some of these students, along with others, have been working with BRB quite a lot during the year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobR Posted July 4, 2018 Share Posted July 4, 2018 16 minutes ago, capybara said: Maybe so. However, I saw the following RBS students on stage during the run of Swan Lake: Yu Hang, Yu Kurihara, Yuki Sugiura, Katharina Nikelski, Amelia Townsend (I think), Harrison Lee, Dingkai Bai and some other young men whose names I'm not sure of. Did anyone spot anyone else? As I mentioned on another thread, some of these students, along with others, have been working with BRB quite a lot during the year. Amelia Palmeiro and Nadia Mullova Barley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capybara Posted July 4, 2018 Share Posted July 4, 2018 7 minutes ago, RobR said: Amelia Palmeiro and Nadia Mullova Barley. They are Aud Jebsen dancers this year, as is Sae Maeda, who was also on stage throughout Swan Lake. My list was of the RBS students I spotted. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IBD23 Posted July 4, 2018 Share Posted July 4, 2018 Harris Bell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whizkid Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 What has happened to Emily Umbrazunas with graduating from RBS? No listing? But was used extensively on RBS tour in Swan Lake ...... anyone know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whizkid Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 On 29/06/2018 at 08:33, RuthE said: Here it is in text form for the benefit of anyone on a more basic user interface (and for ease of editing for whoever ends up posting later amendments!) with apologies for any typos. Harris Bell - Royal Ballet - Aud Jebsen Young Dancers Programme Yu Hang - Royal Ballet - Aud Jebsen Young Dancers Programme Harrison Lee - Royal Ballet - Aud Jebsen Young Dancers Programme Taisuke Nakao - Royal Ballet - Aud Jebsen Young Dancers Programme Katharina Nikelski - Royal Ballet - Aud Jebsen Young Dancers Programme Amelia Townsend - Royal Ballet - Aud Jebsen Young Dancers Programme Yu Kurihara - Birmingham Royal Ballet Tori Forsyth-Hecken - Birmingham Royal Ballet Callum Findlay-White - Birmingham Royal Ballet Lennert Steegen - Birmingham Royal Ballet Isabella Howard - Birmingham Royal Ballet Yuki Sugiura - Birmingham Royal Ballet Eli Gruska - American Ballet Theater Studio Company Ryota Hasegawa - Ballet de l'Opera National de Bordeaux Lore Zonderman - Dutch National Ballet Junior Company Dingkai Bai - Dutch National Ballet Junior Company Rebecca Blenkinsop - English National Ballet Maren Skrede - Norwegian National Ballet Laurence Elliott - Polish National Ballet Aaron Venegas de Frutos - Scottish Ballet Gearoid Solan - Zurich Ballet Junior Company Where is Emily Umbrazunas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLOSS Posted February 25, 2019 Share Posted February 25, 2019 I don't know where she is at present. Her name appears in the cast list of dancers in the 2018 Disney film Nutcracker and the Four Realms in which Misty Copeland and a certain Sergei Polunin seem to have leading roles. As for where she is now. Possibly back in Australia ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
betterankles Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 And the lovely Freya, redhead, who was in almost every Bayadere corps de ballet with Royal Ballet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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