English Nationwide Ballet pronounces winners of Rising Dancer 2024 – Seen and Heard Worldwide

English Nationwide Ballet is thrilled to announce that the winner of the 2024 Rising Dancer Award is Breanna Foad

Having carried out the Venetian Carnival duet from Satanella and Penrose, a brand new modern work by Ching-Ying Chien, along with her companion Thiago Pereira, Breanna Foad was introduced because the winner throughout the Rising Dancer occasion, hosted by English Nationwide Ballet’s Inventive Director, Aaron S. Watkin, at Sadler’s Wells on 24 Could 2024.

Of successful the 2024 Rising Dancer Award, Breanna Foad mentioned: ’I’m extremely shocked and grateful for being the winner of Rising Dancer. I’ve realized a lot throughout this course of. It’s such an honour to win this prize and I really feel so motivated to continue to grow as an artist.’

The night additionally noticed Anna-Babette Winkler, additionally an Rising Dancer finalist, named because the recipient of the Corps de Ballet Award, acknowledging her distinctive work over the past 12 months, whereas Soloist Treasured Adams was awarded the Folks’s Alternative Award, as voted for by members of the general public all through the season.

The occasion permits English Nationwide Ballet to showcase the excellence of its artists. This 12 months’s esteemed judging panel included Amanda Britton MA, Chief Government, Principal and Inventive Director of Rambert College; Monica Zamora, Former Principal Dancer of Birmingham Royal Ballet; Edward Watson MBE, Former Principal Dancer of The Royal Ballet; and Isabela Coracy, Senior Artist of Ballet Black.

Aaron S. Watkin, Inventive Director of English Nationwide Ballet mentioned: ’Rising Dancer is an excellent alternative to rejoice English Nationwide Ballet’s unimaginable younger expertise and a shiny way forward for ballet. The usual we noticed on stage tonight has been distinctive and a pleasure to observe – I do know it is going to have been very tough for our panel to select a winner. Enormous congratulations to Breanna Foad, I can’t wait to see what’s subsequent for this sensible dancer.’

The opposite finalists this 12 months have been Anna Ciriano, Shunhei Fuchiyama, Jose María Lorca Menchón, Thiago Pereira and Anna-Babette Winkler.

English Nationwide Ballet Philharmonic carried out reside all through the night, completed with the Delibes Suite pas de deux carried out by the 2022 Rising Dancer winner Eric Snyder and Folks’s Alternative Treasured Adams.

A full recording of the occasion will probably be accessible on English Nationwide Ballet’s YouTube channel from Thursday 30 Could, for a restricted time of 30 days.