Daily Performance Casting for My First Ballet: Swan Lake
Wed 16 Apr 2025
Cast sheets will be available to download from the day of each performance.
Nominations Are In For The 25th National Dance Awards
17 Apr 2025
We are delighted to receive nine nominations for our dancers, Music Director and collaborators at the 25th National Dance Awards.
The Awards celebrate works performed in the UK between 1 January and 31 December 2024.
Four of our dancers are nominated: Lead Principals Francesco Gabriele Frola, Sangeun Lee and Erina Takahashi (in her final season with us as a dancer), and First Soloist Ivana Bueno.
Our Music Director Maria Seletskaja has also been recognised with a nomination. Collaborators Dick Bird (who designed our new Nutcracker) and Tom Visser (whose lighting design could be seen in Johan Inger’s Carmen) also earned nominations.
We have received nominations in the following categories:
BEST MALE DANCER
Tommy Franzén
Francesco Gabriele Frola
Aakash Odedra
Marcelino Sambé
Joseph Sissens
BEST FEMALE DANCER
Rebecca Bassett-Graham
Francesca Hayward
Sangeun Lee
Erina Takahashi
Eva Yerbabuena
Sangeun Lee as Odette and Gareth Haw as Prince Siegfried in Derek Deane's Swan Lake in-the-round © Laurent Liotardo
EMERGING ARTIST AWARD
Ivana Bueno (dancer)
Daichi Ikarishi (dancer)
Caspar Lench (dancer)
Kennedy Junior Muntanga (dancer & choreographer)
James Pett & Travis Clausen-Knight (as choreographers)
Ivana Bueno as Clara and Francesco Gabriele Frola as Nutcracker Prince and English National Ballet in Aaron S. Watkin and Arielle Smith's Nutcracker © Photography by ASH
OUTSTANDING FEMALE CLASSICAL PERFORMANCE
Marge Hendrick as Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire
Aditi Mangaldas in Mehek
Rocío Molina in Al Fondo Riela
Beatrice Parma as Lise in La Fille mal gardée
Erina Takahashi as Giselle in Akram Khan’s Giselle
OUTSTANDING MALE CLASSICAL PERFORMANCE
William Bracewell as Des Grieux in Manon
Francesco Gabriele Frola as Albrecht in Giselle
Johan Kobborg as Il Matto in La Strada
Aakash Odedra in Mehek
Marcelino Sambé in Different Drummer
Erina Takahashi as Giselle and Francesco Gabriele Frola as Albrecht in Mary Skeaping's Giselle © Photography by ASH
OUTSTANDING CREATIVE CONTRIBUTION
Sam Amidon (Singer/Songwriter, Nobodaddy)
Dick Bird (Design, Nutcracker)
Maria Seletskaja (Conductor)
Joseph Sissens for The Legacy Project
Tom Visser (Lighting Design)
Sketches of Nutcracker party guests costumes. @Dick Bird
A huge congratulations to all of this year’s nominees!
The winners of all National Dance Awards will be announced at a ceremony to be held on Monday 9 June at a London venue to be announced shortly.