Matthew Golding - RB guest this season

[John Mallinson]

I've just noticed that Matthew Golding of Het Nationale Ballet is down on the list as guesting with the RB this season.

 

It would be nice if the RB told us why, rather than just teasing by adding someone with no explanation! Does anyone know of him?

[toursenlair]

Oh lucky you! Matthew is great (also looks amazingly like Brad Pitt, which will please the ladies on balletcoforum). He's from Saskatchewan (Canada) originally, trained at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School then at the Kirov Academy in Washington DC. A YAGP first prize winner. Was with ABT's junior company, then I think Angel Corella's company before joining DNB. Has had quite a meteoric career and can be seen on both DNB's Don Q and Nutcracker DVDs. A beautiful turner. Enjoy!

[alison]

If anyone wants to run it through Google Translate, his biog from the DNB website is here: http://www.het-balle...atthew-golding/ Just realised there is an English language version of the site too: http://www.het-ballet.nl/en/dancers-and-team/dancers/principals/matthew-golding/ - I did think it odd that a company operating in such a non-widely-spoken language wouldn't have an English version as well, but the link was off my screen.

 

I do find it slightly worrying that his own website can't spell the name of his own company properly

 

Are they going to be short on Solors? Quite possibly, I suspect. Longer term, I suppose the proposed Don Q would be an obvious choice, but that's not this season, anyway. Otherwise, I can't see any obvious overlaps between what he's already danced and the season's programming.

[Bruce Wall]

When it comes to Solars ... surely the guest to have will be Ivan Vasiliev ... who danced the role with Alina in NYC ...

[DavidW]

Looking at what remains to be cast I can only see Mayerling, Bayadere and the New MacGregor/Symphony in C double bill. I would think the Royal had Mayerling and the MacGregor covered so I guess perhaps Solor is the obvious role. Unless he has a Balanchine background which doesn't seem to be the case... Intriguing!

[Naomi M]

Matthew Golding is a very good dancer, as already mentioned he is a good turner, has elegance and also great in partnering skills. He guested in Tokyo Ballet's La Bayadere (Natalia Makarova version) last year and was terrific. Also, he is quite tall so he can partner tall ballerinas too. He must be guesting for Solor.

[toursenlair]

Here's a video DNB just posted. Enjoy!

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Edited October 13, 2012 by toursenlair

[bangorballetboy]

Matthew Golding is a very good dancer, as already mentioned he is a good turner, has elegance and also great in partnering skills. He guested in Tokyo Ballet's La Bayadere (Natalia Makarova version) last year and was terrific. Also, he is quite tall so he can partner tall ballerinas too. He must be guesting for Solor.

 

And now we know he is.

[toursenlair]

and here he is in the Lightfoot Leon piece for which he won the Zwaan:

 

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[toursenlair]

On Dutch National Ballet's website it says he is also guesting with ENB this spring. Does anyone know in what? Swan Lake, maybe?

[alison]

My definition of "spring" wouldn't include June or whenever Swan Lake is taking place, and he's not appearing in Sleeping Beauty, so my guess would be the mixed bill at the Coliseum in April (conjointly with his RB appearances, which I think are in May?)

[capybara]

However, the Raymond Gubbay organisation  (which promotes ENB at the Royal Albert Hall) is known to be keen on there being guest artistes for the 'in the round' performances.

[aileen]

I think that it is unlikely that Matthew Golding will dance in ENB's Spring triple bill unless he is replacing Nicolas Le Riche who it was previously announced is guesting in Le Jeune Homme et La Mort. I think that it is more likely that he is dancing in Swan Lake in the Round, possibly with Tamara, so that Daria and Begona can dance with their regular partners. I'm sure that I read somewhere that there would be a guest or guests dancing in this production, and Derek Deane has certainly brought in guests for this before (who can forget the saga of Polina Semionova and her visa in the first of the Agony and the Ecstasy programmes).