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English National Ballet’s Emerging Dancer & People’s Choice Award On Monday evening, this year’s Emerging Dancer competition organised by English National Ballet was judged by, among others, Arlene Phillips. The winner of both the Emerging Dancer and People’s Choice Award was Yonah Acosta. The nominees were : Yonah Acosta Don Quixote (Gorsky), Diana and Acteon (Petipa) Barry [...]

The Emerging Dancer Award, now in its second year, is an annual competition for English National Ballet to recognise and nurture talent and encourage excellence and potential within the Company. The six Emerging Dancer nominees are James Streeter, Ksenia Ovsyanick, Laurretta Summerscales, Max Westwell, Shiori Kase, Vadim Muntagirov. At this event each of the nominees [...]

This is the second year that English National Ballet have asked you to vote for your favourite company dancer, who will win the People’s Choice Award.  The Emerging Dancer Award winner is chosen by the company from a list of six nominees, who will be announced later this year.  If you vote, you will be entered into [...]

Regular readers will know that I have been reporting on the Emerging Dancer and People’s Choice Awards for a while now, as well as interviewing all but one of the nominees.  The results are in !  24 February 2010 for immediate release English National Ballet is delighted to announce that Anais Chalendard is the winner [...]