Love the "promotion game" you did with MT and BT dancers! What are your predictions for Royal Ballet soloists/first soloists? Thank you!
Oooh one I feel rather more confident on!
I will do men and women. Each category will be likeliness of being promoted to principal. I will also add some first artists (ok, one). As always this may not be what I want but what I suspect will happen.
William Bracewell (Surprised he isn’t already, tbh)
Reece Clarke (Especially because he seems to be the only one Natalia Osipova will dance with)
Anna Rose O’Sullivan (Obviously being curated to be the next female principal, probably on the retirement of Morera. Even more cemented by her Englishness -- the Royal Ballet has gotten flack for lack of English principals in the last few decades)
Joseph Sissens (Am I really saying definitively that this first artist is going all the way to principal? Yes, yes I am.)
Cesar Corrales (They’ve been putting a LOT of energy into him and giving him a lot of opportunities. But these opportunities don’t seem to have gone particularly well)
Fumi Kaneko (I really don’t understand what’s happened her. All of a sudden she just popped out as a contender for principal. I tend to think there will always be someone she just misses out to, but who knows)
Mayara Magri (I just don’t see this as the forgone conclusion others do)
Luca Acri (I would never have thought this before, but he had some interesting debuts last season)
James Hay (All of a sudden he’s getting these great opportunities? Sort of came out of nowhere)
Beatriz Stix-Brunell (I think her peak has already happened, tbh)
Nicol Edmonds (I think he will go up to first soloist, but there’s just way too much male talent right now to go all the way)
Benjamin Ella (Almost certain will go to first soloist, but doubtful if he will go beyond)
Meaghan Grace Hinkis (I high-key love this dancer. She’s had some really, really interesting debuts. But she also hasn’t had any movement in the company since 2015. I think principal is probably out of sight but there are lots of aging women in the company...)
Claire Calvert (Has been pretty firmly placed in the soloist category)
Tierney Heap (Hasn’t had any leading roles as a first soloist)
Itziar Mendizabal (Doesn’t have the range to be a principal)
Valentino Zucchetti (I think the recent documentary made this pretty clear. And he’s moved in the direction of choreography pretty significantly. He also dances a lot of ‘character’ roles. But I suppose there’s a slight chance...)
Calvin Richardson (I just really don’t see this happening)
Olivia Cowley (I mean I guess there’s a slight chance she would go up one level? But then again, not at all?)
Isabella Gasparini (Too old)
Tomas Mock (Recently had a promotion and they like to spread them out)
David Yudes (He hasn’t even had a soloist role in at least a year)
Yuhui Choe (People who think someone who joined the company in 2002 will get promoted need to stop thinking it will happen)
Melissa Hamilton (Especially because she doesn’t seem to have a ton of company loyalty)
Romany Pajdak (Now this might be controversial. I like her and everyone else fell in love with her during the recent livestream. BUT she was just promoted. And she can’t be promoted straight to principal and the royal likes a few years between promotions. And she’s already in her mid-30s. I just don’t see there being time left for her to go all the way to principal)
Paul Kay (No real promising roles)
Fernando Montaño (I thought he had already left for some reason? He has other focuses now than ballet)
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