The Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) has announced that former Ballet Noir principal artist José Alves will join the jury for The Fonteyn 2024. , the competition will be held at the RAD’s National Dance Academy – the state-of-the-art Ode Jebsen Theater at its London headquarters.
Alves and Dame Darcey Bussell DBE, Alessandra Ferri OMRI, Kevin O’Hare CBE, Dame Monica Mason DBE joins Ashley Page OBE as judges for the 2024 Festival Vendôme.
Bussell, Ferry and Alves will judge the semi-finals, while O’Hare will only judge the final at His Majesty’s Theatre. mason and paige Awards for musicality and choreography will be judged. The Musicality Award is the first in the competition’s history and is supported by the Lynn Wallis Bursary Fund.
Commenting on the news, Alves said: “I am honored to be a judge for the 2024 Fonteyn Semi-Finals. I can’t wait to see dancers from all over the world take to the RAD stage, in such a wonderful venue and Performing at prestigious competitions.
In the semi-finals, candidates take part in a judged class and perform variations on classical repertoire. Candidates will also perform a “dancer’s own” variation choreographed by themselves, their teacher or a peer, to music of their choice. The final will take place at His Majesty’s Theater in London on 8 September at 7pm. Andrew McNicol will serve as Vendôme’s commissioned choreographer and will choreograph two new variations that will have their world premieres at the Vendôme Finale.
Fonteyn (formerly The Genée) is one of the oldest and most prestigious ballet competitions in the world and represents the pinnacle of achievement for young dancers trained to the RAD syllabus.
Since its inception in 1931, the competition has toured the world promoting dance, providing educational experiences and recognizing outstanding young ballet dancers internationally. Starting off their careers, past competition winners including Steven McRae and Celine Gittens have gone on to become professional dancers with companies around the world and enjoy careers in the arts. A long career.
Alves was born in Brazil and began studying ballet at the age of 13 at the Adalgisa Rolim Ballet School. In 2007, he entered the Bolshoi Theater School in Brazil and graduated in 2008. Original choreography by Toews, Will Tackett, Ludovic. a midsummer night’s dream Author: Son of Arthur Pita and Mark Bruce second coming.
In 2017, Alves starred in Ballet Black’s remake of Martin Lawrance’s It is captured and created the role of Grandma in a dance by Annabelle Lopez-Ochoa little Red Riding Hood. He was also one of the principal dancers in the first live broadcast of Black Ballet on World Ballet Day 2017, dancing in the revival. Dopamine (you make my levels stupid) Author: Ludovic Ondiviela (2013), broadcast by BBC. In 2018, Alves played Oberon in the movie “Oberon.” A Midsummer Night’s Dream within a dream (Arthur Peeta) and created the character Philemon in Kathy Marston’s film Suit, for which he won the 2018 Critics Circle National Dance Award for Outstanding Male Classical Dancer. Between 2019 and 2022, Alves starred in new ballets by Sophie Laplane, Mthuthuzeli October, Peter Leung, Will Tuckett, Martin Lawrance and Gregory Maqoma, and collaborated with Cassa Pancho and Ballet Black on Say It Loud, Celebrating the company’s 20th anniversary.th Anniversary 2022.
Tickets for Fontaine in 2024 will be open to the public on the 1stYingshi July. To stay updated, go to www.thefonteyn.org.
