Press Release: Scottish Ballet new dancer appointments

[Jan McNulty]

SCOTTISH BALLET - NEW DANCER APPOINTMENTS

 

Scottish Ballet is delighted to announce the appointment of Melissa Parsons, Grace Horler, Matthew Broadbent and Grace Horne, who all join the Company as Artists.

 

Melissa Parsons joins Scottish Ballet from the National Ballet of Portugal. She is from Pembury in England and trained at the Royal Ballet School.

 

Grace Horler was born in Windsor and trained at The Royal Ballet School where she was awarded the Aud Jebsen Young Dancers Programme with The Royal Ballet.

 

Matthew Broadbent was born in Zevenaar in the Netherlands and trained at the Royal Ballet School. He joins Scottish Ballet from Northern Ballet, which he joined in 2010.

 

Grace Horne grew up in Lincolnshire and studied at The Royal Ballet School. She previously danced with Scottish Ballet during the winter 2014 season tour of Peter Darrell’s The Nutcracker.

 

In addition to these appointments, Scottish graduates from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Jamie Reid and Elayne Seaton will be joining the Company until the end of the winter season.

 

Glasgow-born Jamie Reid joins Scottish Ballet for the Autumn/Winter 2015/16 seasons. Reid trained with the Scottish Ballet Associates Programme and graduated from the BA Modern Ballet course at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland this summer.

 

Elayne Seaton first performed with the Company last winter and joins Scottish Ballet for this year’s winter season, an imaginative re-telling of the classic ballet Cinderella, choreographed by CEO/ Artistic Director Christopher Hampson. Seaton trained with Scottish Ballet’s Associates programme and graduated this year from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

 

The Company has begun rehearsals for Scottish Ballet’s Autumn Season featuring Javier de Frutos’ Elsa Canasta, Bryan Arias’ Motion of Displacement and Sophie Laplane’s Maze. Scottish Ballet’s Autumn Season will be performed at the Theatre Royal in Glasgow from 24 – 26 September, Festival Theatre in Edinburgh from 29 – 30 September , Eden Court in Inverness from 2 – 3 October and His Majesty’s Theatre in Aberdeen from 9 – 10 October.

 

[RuthE]

Goodness - imagine recruiting two young dancers with almost identical names at exactly the same time! They're destined to get mixed up with each other for as long as they're both with the company...

[RuthE]

Off-topic musing... there seem to be so many ballet dancers called Grace!! Nominative determinism, or a high proportion of pushy parents who are hoping their daughters might have what it takes for a ballet career from the point of birth?

 

(I'm thinking Grace Horne and Grace Horler named above, Grace Blundell in the corps at the RB, and at least two other RB dancers with Grace as a middle name - Meaghan Grace Hinkis and Olivia Cowley...)