From: Worcester. Training: Royal Ballet School, lower and upper schools. Professionally: After graduating from the Royal Ballet School, Daniel danced with the Royal New Zealand Ballet Company for 7 years. During this time with RNZB he performed in many of the company’s productions including ‘Dracula’, ‘Carmen’, Jorma Elmo’s ‘Plan to A’ and dancing the Nutcracker [...]

From: Paris, France. Training: L’Ecole de Danse de l’Opera de Paris and Academie Americaine de Danse de Paris. He was a finalist at the New York Final of the YAGP competition in 2007 and in 2011 Europe semi-final won 3rd place for Ensemble of the YAPG. He has attended summer programmes in the USA with [...]

From: Porthcawl, South Wales. Training: Laine Theatre Arts under the tuition of June Mitchell. Professionally: Jemma has been an apprentice with National Dance Company Wales and has recently returned from working with Susanna Beltrami in Milan. This is Jemmas’ first season with Ballet Cymru. Additional information: Jemma is fluent in Spanish, Italian and French.   Yn [...]

Apprentice dancer and BBC Performing Arts Fund Fellow From: Clitheroe, Lancashire. Training: The Angela Westwell School of Dance, the Senior Associate programme with The Royal Ballet School and Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance, graduating in 2011 with a 1st Class BA (Hons) Degree. Professionally: Aimee joined Ballet Cymru for tour of Italy in [...]

From: Burton on Trent. Training: Elmhurst School for Dance. Whilst at Elmhurst, Lydia performed with Birmingham Royal Ballet in their  Twentieth Anniversary Gala, and at the Birmingham NIA and MEN arena performing the Dying Swan Solo. Professionally: This is Lydia’s first season with Ballet Cymru.   Yn hanu o: Burton on Trent. Hyfforddiant:  Elmhurst School [...]

From: Guildford, Surrey. Training: Tring Park School for the Performing Arts, dancing ‘Graduation Ball’ at the Gothenburg Opera House and re-created the title role from Northern Ballet Theatre’s ‘Dracula’ for a mixed bill London gala performance. Professionally: Sam has previously worked with English National Ballet, Ballet Theatre UK and Ballet West, before joining Ballet Cymru [...]

Education Officer and Dancer Swyddog Addysg a Dawnsiwr From: Warrington, Cheshire. Training: Kate Simmons Dance Ltd. Mandev also holds the Enrico Cecchetti Diploma. Professionally: Since graduating in 2007, Mandev has performed in ‘The Nutcracker’ with the National Ballet Company in America and with the Flamenco company, Simpatico Flamenco under the alias El Nino Fuego. Mandev [...]

From: Guildford, Surrey. Training: Susan Robinson School of Ballet and Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance. Professionally: Since graduating, Emily has been an apprentice with Cathy Marston on ‘The Tempest’ at ROH2 and has toured the UK and Switzerland with Vienna Festival Ballet in a number of classical works. Since joining Ballet Cymru in [...]

From: Tokyo, Japan. Training: Ballet West and Kate Simmons Dance Ltd. Professionally: After graduating in 2006, Daisuke worked for the Serbian National Ballet before joining Ballet Cymru in September 2008. He has danced a variety of roles including Puck in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, and Owain in ‘Lady of the Lake’. Additional information: Daisuke is [...]

From: Swansea, South Wales. Training: With Frederic Jahn and Patricia Ruanne in Guadeloupe, with Ballet Laura Alonso in Cuba and with London Studio Centre in their Images of Dance tour. Professionally: This is Iselin’s fifth year with Ballet Cymru and highlighted roles include Titania in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, and Myrtha in ‘Giselle’. Additional information: [...]