Rosanna Ely
Born: Lancaster
Trained: Elmhurst Ballet School
Joined: 2014; First Artist, 2023
Favourite one-act ballet: Elite Syncopations – the music, costumes, choreography, the orchestra on stage – everything about it is so much fun.
Most challenging experience: I didn’t realise it at the time, but moving away from home at the age of 11 was very challenging.
Awards: Scholarship winner at the Cecchetti Classical Ballet Awards, and named Most Promising Dancer at the Barbara Geoghegan Awards.
REPERTORY INCLUDES
Carlos Acosta: Don Quixote (Kitri's friends)
Miguel Altunaga: City of a Thousand Trades
Frederick Ashton: Enigma Variations, Les Rendezvous
George Balanchine: Serenade
David Bintley: Cinderella (Stepsister), The Prince of the Pagodas, The Tempest, 'Still Life' at the Penguin Café
Ruth Brill: Arcadia
John Cranko: Pineapple Poll
Jeorge Crecis: 24
Kenneth MacMillan: Concerto, Elite Syncopations, Romeo and Juliet
Hans van Manen: 5 Tangos
Peter Wright: Coppélia (Dawn), The Nutcracker (Clara, Spanish Dance), The Sleeping Beauty (Enchanted Princess, Fairy of Honour, Pas de quatre), Swan Lake (Polish Princess, Cygnet)
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