toursenlair Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 National Ballet of Canada Corps de Ballet members Félix Paquet (22) and Calley Skalnik (21) will represent the company at The Twelfth International Competition for The Erik Bruhn Prize on Tuesday, November 15, 2016 at 7:30 pm at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts. Choreographic Associate Robert Binet creates a new contemporary work commissioned by the National Ballet, Self and Soul, as part of the competition. Other participants are: Cassandra Trenary (23) and Gabe Stone Shayer (23) from American Ballet Theatre, Madoka Sugai (22) and Christopher Evans (22) from The Hamburg Ballet, Chisato Katsura (20) and Harrison Churches (20) from The Royal Ballet Natasha Sheehan (17) and Angelo Greco (21) San Francisco Ballet, Judging the competition will be Artistic Directors Karen Kain, Kevin McKenzie (American Ballet Theatre), John Neumeier (The Hamburg Ballet), Kevin O’Hare (The Royal Ballet) and Helgi Tomasson (San Francisco Ballet). Competing for the choreographic prize are Jeffrey Cirio (American Ballet Theatre), Marc Jubete (The Hamburg Ballet), Calvin Richardson (The Royal Ballet) and Myles Thatcher (San Francisco Ballet). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toursenlair Posted November 1, 2016 Author Share Posted November 1, 2016 No Danes this year. This just seems wrong! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 That said, Katherine ... what a wonderful array of talents are on show. Enjoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toursenlair Posted November 2, 2016 Author Share Posted November 2, 2016 moderators can you change the heading for this to something like "includes Royal Ballet dancers" since, judging from the low numbers of people who have clicked on it I suspect people are unaware of that fact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 Done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capybara Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 ? Harrison Churches? ? ? He's always been listed as Harry here. What a wonderful opportunity for him and Chisato. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 (edited) The ABT team of Trenary and Shayer were the veritable toast of Paris during the SB run at the Bastille. I'm certain they will do well in Toronto as well. Wonderful opportunity for RB's Calvin Richardson too!! Edited November 2, 2016 by Bruce Wall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balletsoccermom Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 How are the dancers selected to compete in this? Is it limited to five couples? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toursenlair Posted November 3, 2016 Author Share Posted November 3, 2016 How are the dancers selected to compete in this? Is it limited to five couples? The artistic directors of each company choose a male and female dancer from their company. They have to be under 23 years of age. The companies participating change each year, although that was not the original intention, which was to have dancers representing the companies with which Erik Bruhn was associated: Royal Danish, Royal, ABT, and NBOC. But sometimes a company can't spare any dancers at the time of the competition. We have had several competitions without any Royal Ballet dancers, but this the first time we have no Danes. Hamburg and San Francisco have both participated before. Stuttgart has been at least once. Last year we had dancers from Boston for the first time. I don't know how the NBOC (which runs the competition) decides how many companies to invite in a given year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melody Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 SF Ballet has a 17-year-old company member? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
betterankles Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 Dancers used to start even at age 14 - Fonteyn, Beriosova, Grey etc ... (and of course the 'baby ballerinas', Toumanova, Riabouchinska and Baronova) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capybara Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 Nunez joined the Royal Ballet at 16. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legseleven Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 (edited) In the 1980s Katherine Healy and Trinidad Sevillano danced as principals with London Festival Ballet aged 15 or 16. I think Sir Frederick Ashton coached Sevillano as his Juliet when she was 16. Edited November 3, 2016 by Legseleven 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balletsoccermom Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 San Francisco has offered corps position to many 17-year olds. I recall one was invited last year and now Natasha, this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aileen Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 ENB took on a 17 year old Prix de Lausanne winner last season and she danced a number of featured roles before she turned 18. I don't know whether she was technically an apprentice but she was not described as such in her bio. She is dancing Clara in Nutcracker in December. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangorballetboy Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 Beatriz Stix-Brunell joined Morphoses when she was 15! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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