Joshua Fickling joins Sarasota Ballet

[Ondine]

British ballet student Joshua Fickling (Royal Ballet School, Moorland Academy) has joined the Sarasota Ballet as a corps member for the 2023 / 2024 season.

 

Born in Bucks, raised in Huddersfield. So we can claim him as northern?

 

https://www.sarasotaballet.org/people/fickling-joshua/

 

I know many on this forum follow the Sarasota Ballet (which is coming to the UK in 2024) so thought I'd post this good news here.

 

Given his Cecchetti training, he should do well in its Ashton ballet revivals!

 

Congratulations to Joshua, who has been popping up on various competition and other news items for the past couple of years. He spent some time with Birmingham Royal Ballet in 2023, and the McNicholl Ballet Collective.

 

He won first prize in the GradPro Showcase in May (look at that judging panel!)

 

https://www.seeingdance.com/grad-pro-national-showcase-230527/

 

The main Gail Monahan Award went to Joshua Fickling, who looked very assured in his class work with excellent turns and jumps, before giving a confident rendition of Ali’s solo from Le Corsaire and ‘L’Amour de Sol,’ a contemporary solo that seemed to suit his personality perfectly. Others have clearly recognised his talent too. Presently an apprentice dancer with McNicol Ballet Collective, Fickling also performed in Birmingham Royal Ballet’s 2023 national tour of Swan Lake and has secured a contract with Sarasota Ballet for their 2023-4 season.

 

You can catch a glimpse of him dancing in the video here (he was runner-up in the Senior Award) around ten minutes in

 

2022 The Cecchetti Society Classical Ballet Faculty is delighted to announce the results of the online Bursary Awards Selection event. Anita Young MBE had an extraordinarily difficult job of adjudicating the 74 entries, which came in from the students of our UK and International teacher members. 

 

https://www.istd.org/discover/news/cecchetti-classical-ballet-bursary-awards-selection-event-2022/

 

 

Meet Joshua, a former Moorland Ballet Academy Student ( background, interview and lovely photos):

 

https://moorlandballetacademy.com/blog/meet-joshua-a-former-moorland-ballet-academy-student/

 

In 2022, Joshua was invited to perform at the prestigious Cecchetti Centenary Gala at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden and was also the ‘ballet face’ of the Move It Event in the same year. He also performed at the GradPro Awards, an event reserved for the most talented and promising dancers. He was awarded the Barbara Geoghegan and Jennifer Morgan Musicality Award at the Cecchetti Vocational Awards in 2022, another testament to his incredible talent.

 

 

Joshua: All the lessons that I received from the directors Lynsey and Simon Kidd as well as the Cecchetti training from Gillian Hurst helped me to develop my dancing to a standard which was good enough to help me secure a professional job with the Sarasota Ballet Company in Florida, USA!

I know that without all the love, care and attention from the teachers I would never have been able to go on to achieve what I have. I’m so eternally grateful for this.

 

 

 

(I have no connection at all with Joshua or Moorland, I'm simply celebrating a success story.)

 

 

Edited December 13, 2023 by Ondine